Blast the alien orbiters as they emerge from the heart of the sun!
OpenAL required for the Windows version: http://www.openal.org/creative-installers/oalinst.zip
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 59% |
| #225 | Audio | 3.27 |
| #333 | Innovation | 3.44 |
| #379 | Fun | 3.27 |
| #386 | Overall | 3.36 |
| #436 | Theme | 3.69 |
| #606 | Humor | 2.42 |
| #641 | Mood | 2.85 |
| #922 | Graphics | 2.53 |
Comments
Very nice entry. The music is cool, and the pace of the game is great. One thing I found annoying was that i could not replay the game right away. I had to wait 3-5 seconds to start again. Great entry!
Really fun arcade-type gameplay and a complementary soundtrack! I wish you'd decided to keep a unified graphics style though. The old-school Atari-vector graphics look great, but pasting raster art spaceships on top of them ruins it :(
I still enjoyed it though: Simple and fun.
nice entry ! effective idea and fun control ! better art would make it shine, but it works.
I like the music and audio (everyone's game sounds like DrPetter these days, which is a good thing)! The gameplay was really unique. I like the various orbits!
Nice execution on the theme; enjoyed the callback aesthetics. Would have been nice if the restart time were a little shorter.
Works with wine under Linux.
Reminds me of old times in arcades, very fitting audio.
Really cool idea. It's pretty hard but really fun. Nice work.
Pretty unique game mechanic, I really enjoyed this one. Loved the retro audio!
Solid work! The combination of very easy death and a long restart time was a bit frustrating, but it's fun for the time I can stay alive (which, to be honest, isn't that long).
I liked the music and art style. I wish there wasn't a delay when restarting, but then again I died a lot...lol. Fun game, very challenging.
sweet. like the game play, audio and sound fx are veryvery nice. it s funny how you can screw up by flying into the sun or outa space :D. what I found most frustrating was when they enemies spawned directly onto your position (prblby on the inner most ring) me was to slow to react :D but all in all very nice game
I got an error: OpenAL32.dll is missing, so I could not play this.
Hi! Thanks for all the comments -- glad people are enjoying the game!
>>I got an error: OpenAL32.dll is missing
It needs OpenAL. The link is in the description -- should get things running :D
Nice! Enjoyed this, so hard though. Got up to ~400, the preset high score of 1000 seems a bit harsh.
I really like the concept. My only complaint is that it starts out too hard. I like a challenge but I need to be eased into it.
Nice retro audio and graphics style. Neat concept, and rather challenging.
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Nice audio; fits well. Game is a nice idea but it could do with being a bit less predictable: Once I'd got used to going around the outer ring there wasn't much going on (until the one that finally hit me and I couldn't do anything about it).
I like that you can shoot yourself.