LittleBear says: You're singing to the preacher.14.03.06
Shmester 5000
Shmester 5000 arrives from DrPetter, just a day after I saw POC06. Wow… the first announced “final” cut for the Shmup Dev Horizontal Shooter with Boss Competition and it’s good. I’m very pleasantly surprised at the quality of quite a few of the entries. Shmester 5000 has an interesting power-up system. Catch and collect orbs, which will act as shields for you (they’re able to absorb 1 or 2 hits based on colour). Or, convert your orbs into a weapons upgrade, 4 orbs per upgrade. You can even go down a notch, gaining 4 orbs again. Cool, very cool. The graphics style is great, very Invader Zim and Alien Hominid. Great bubble-particle effects as well. Give this a try, and thanks to DrPetter for a great contest entry.
the2bears.com » Cathode Raygun said,
March 16, 2006 at 10:50 am
[…] Visually and gameplay-wise it’s as different as you can get from Shmester5000, but like Shmester5000 it’s also a lot of fun to play and the production quality is great. Your goal is to collect the “pods” left behind after you kill an enemy, and you’re given a tractor beam to help. Collect 32 and meet the boss, simple as that. The game is challenging though, the closer you get to 32 pods collected the harder it gets. There’s also some stranged physics going on with your ship, the momentum takes some practise to control. […]