PixelBoy: Meteor Busters

Posted by Derek Yu Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:10:00 GMT

Meteor Busters

Meteor Busters is a fun little browser-based shooter by the mercenary pixel pushers known as dot-invasion. I like how you can switch between five different ships in the middle of the game, and I REALLY like that each ship has a different weapon that actually affects how you play (my favorite is the exploding darts). Couple this with great graphics and a simple, but effective, combo system, and you’ve got a winner in my book.

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  1. dessgeega said about 4 hours later:

    also check out their kid icarus-inspired forgotten myths game.

  2. chad said about 6 hours later:

    uh, stupid of me, but, uh… what’re the controls? I looked around the site, whanged the shit out of my keyboard… nothin’.

  3. Leedar said about 6 hours later:

    The playability in “Meteor Busters” is simple:

    Use the directional keys (by default: ARROW KEYS) to control your spaceship. Use the “action” key (by default: SPACE) to fire Use the “start” key (by default: ENTER) to pause the game, and choose another spaceship.

    http://www.dot-invasion.com/dboy/cartridges/001.html

  4. Mazapan said about 13 hours later:

    The name of the programmer/ artist is Marmotte. I’d buy this revamped PixelBoy. PSP > DS > PixelBoy

  5. chad said about 15 hours later:

    yeah, I had to click on the screen of the pixelboy for the controls to be active. It’s fun; I like it. I wonder how much cost could be cut off the development of a game like this for say, the gba, versus the development cost of a full color, more complicated game. Or even as a downloadable for the ds?

  6. chad said about 15 hours later:

    also, I like the backgrounds– they look like doctored satellite photos?

  7. null said about 18 hours later:

    A bit slow for my own tastes, and Flash is like the most stupid technology for making games, really, take that Kid Icarus-esque game as example, it looks great but it runs like a fucking snail! Since when you need more than 450 Mhz to run a fucking 8-bit like game? Flash = Waste of processing power. Director can handle bitmaps better, try that, Dot Invasion crew!

  8. Marmotte said 3 days later:

    …and Marmotte = Alexandre Renevey ^_^

    Actually, except for the soundtrack, i did everything in “Meteor Busters”. But i got some interested people to collaborate on some new PixelBoy games, so if nobody gives up (you know, those are free projects after all), i hope to release some new games in the future.

    Controls: yes, the next PixelBoy games should be compatible with the “physical” buttons of the PixelBoy itself. “Meteor Busters” was written way before that. And here’s a bonus: in 2003 i released the 1st PixelBoy wannabe game, “Escape the Planet”, a prequel to “Meteor Busters”. Don’t excpet the game to be too great though, haha: http://www.pnflashgames.com/module-pnFlashGames-view-cid-6.phtml

    Backgrounds: i found some great images with google; then i did some work to re-assemble the most interesting parts and create unique locations.

    Flash = waste of processing power: i agree, flash is not that fast; when you play your game offline, it’s really smooth in most cases. Put the same game in a broswer and it’ll start to be extremely slow and slugish… doh! About director, i lost all my Director skills since several years now, unfortunately…

    Kid Icarus: i’m a HUGE Kid Icarus fan.

    Also, thanks for your nice comments everyone, and thanks for your article Derek!

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