Posted by Derek Yu Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:03:00 GMT
This one’s been out a while, but I just played it and I figured some of you might not have seen it!
By Sean “Wyrdysm” Chan (the developer of Battleships Forever), qrp is, in the author’s own words, “about daydreaming about girls in class. It’s a simple expression of how I felt as a silly little boy going through school.”
Really cute and charming little game.
Posted by Xander Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:30:00 GMT
First off apologies for my recent absence, and by recent I mean for about the last month. I’ve moved into University for my second year and things are a little crazy. The good kinda of crazy. Science of Sleep kinda crazy.
To catch up I had a quick browse of the IGF Entries this time around, and came across a game I’d forgotten about for some time. Battleships Forever! A great space-based tactical RTS which borrows aesthetic influences from the classic boss-battler Warning Forever. Created by Sean “th15” Chan, it heavily features ship-to-ship combat, where design of each craft is incredibly intricate. Much like ‘Warning’, each ship is made of of individual pieces and weapons, which can be destroyed however you wish to provide yourself the best advantage in combat.
Battle is relatively straight forward mouse control, to move you click the ships and then the area you wish to travel, however holding it in-place there allows you to change your ships facing direction as you do so. Positioning is crucial to doing well at the game as the usage of deflectors, which render certain areas of the ship invulnerable, become your biggest defensive asset as well as your most common obstacle. Used well, it can defend a single ship with ease. Used damn well, and as illustrated above you can create a fleet that causes red-shirts to wish they were back in that Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment.
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