Shoot.

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Shaun_B
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Re: Shoot.

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And so it is released. The game starts of at a very pedestrian pace and takes a while to get going (like Bounce). Also, you're choices control certain events in the game. Press the any key to start and it will affect the position of the second wormhole, press a different any key next time and it might do something different.

If it crashes or anything, or it's toooo slow, then let me know.

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Shaun.
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I look forward to giving this a play at lunchtime :)

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Re: Shoot.

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The final version is uploaded - sorry for the public betas - this is due to a lack of testers, so I've needed to play the game to death.

By the way, if anyone is insane enough to score 9999 points, you complete the game.

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The screenshot looks good.
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yerzmyey wrote:The screenshot looks good.
But how does it play...? ;-)

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Erm. Was there any download link? I must have missed it...?
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Re: Shoot.

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yerzmyey wrote:Erm. Was there any download link? I must have missed it...?
In the 'New Games Thread' here:

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Re: Shoot.

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Wow, there is even more! :)


Yeah, the "Shoot" is really cool (pretty hard 'though but still possible to play ;) ). Interesting idea, too.

The "Bounce" is really fast - a good game, I was playing it for a while whenm the boss came and I had to stop, hahaha.

Thanx a lot, I will convert them into my real ZX81 and will be using them!
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Re: Shoot.

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yerzmyey wrote:Wow, there is even more! :)


Yeah, the "Shoot" is really cool (pretty hard 'though but still possible to play ;) ). Interesting idea, too.

The "Bounce" is really fast - a good game, I was playing it for a while whenm the boss came and I had to stop, hahaha.

Thanx a lot, I will convert them into my real ZX81 and will be using them!
Thanks, I actually got bored of Shoot pretty quickly, whereas Bounce is the better game in my opinion. I did a little routine in bounce that meant the ball would or should fall quicker than it rises, did you notice? There's also a 'super easy' mode if you press the right any key.

In shoot, there are no random events (as in random seeding). The player controls every event without realising it. So, if you press the same key to begin the game each time, and move the drones in exactly the same way each time, the same events will happen each time ;-) In other words, each player is highly likely to generate different events in the same game, how's that for random?

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This game received an impressive 58% overall, as reviewed by Jason Kelk. That's probably 38% more than I'd hoped for.

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