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]]> 01 Aug 2007 07:28:55 This is a pre-cursor to Retro Blaster. Jeff just finished it off a few days ago. The game is more like traditional Asteroids, but with progressive weapons. This game loads much quicker than Retro Blaster, and it supports 100's of on-screen objects (mostly shots) with little or no slow-down. Be sure to ramp your guns up to 3 + rapid fire, hold-down [Z] and blast everything back to pixels!

]]> 07 Jul 2007 05:11:59 Unravel the mysteries of ancient hieroglyphs that will help you restore the glorious pyramids. A totally new brain-teasing puzzle experience across 60+ exciting levels with stunning graphics and amazing sound is what Brickshooter Egypt has to offer. Truly original, innovative and extremely addictive gameplay will keep you moving these bricks for hours on end. Crack the intriguing puzzles of the past and unlock the secrets of the pharaohs!

]]> 29 Jun 2007 06:28:32 Cratered is a FREE top down, multi-player shooter where two opposing teams face off. We pay homage to this sub-genre of games where all the rules you need to know is that you should blow things up and grab the enemy flag using any sneaky methods you've discovered.

]]> 28 Jun 2007 08:00:31 STAR TREK VOYAGER: THE ARCADE GAME is a pulse-pounding shoot-em-up, and can be found in finer arcades, movie theaters and entertainment centers everywhere!

"...It is an arcade gun-shooting game in the grand tradition of Area 51, Virtua Cop and The House of the Dead. Unlike those games, though, it's populated by new alien adversaries designed exclusively for the Star Trek universe by the creators of General Chaos and Rampage World Tour."

TIPS&TRICKS Magazine
Arcade Strategy, January 2003

]]> 28 Jun 2007 07:07:56 Donuts in Danger is a frantic action shooter with cool upgradeable weapons, tons of enemies and 45 manic levels. Help the Martians to save their precious donuts from the Cube-Clan scum. Blow them to pieces and collect the credit crystals and then spend them in the shop to upgrade your gun. Fast, frantic and more weapons than you could poke a Martian stick at!

]]> 23 Jun 2007 04:40:10 Metal Slug Special Mission, takes shooter enthusiasts to all new heights. With unparalleled game play and special features. This game is in chinese so you have to click the middle button on the start screen. On the instructions screen, click the button in the bottom right hand corner. This is one of the best flash games ever made. The gameplay is unreal!

]]> 22 Jun 2007 12:41:51 Classic Contra at it's best. This is a flash game based off of the popular 2D classic. Run and gun in this frenzied button-mashing,twitch-gaming masterpiece.

]]> 21 Jun 2007 06:23:05 Earth Under Fire is single player space shooter game.
Originally created as entry for PGD Big Boss Competition 2006
It ended up on the third place. Since then it has been upgraded.

Current version is 0.80 Beta 2 from 19th June 2007. Game campaign
consists of 9 missions connected by story.
It is still beta so I would appreciate any comments or bug reports.

More information about the game is in the Doc directory of the downloadable game archive and on in-game help screens.

]]> 19 Jun 2007 12:24:54 Space Shooter in the vein of the old school top down classics. Collect upgrades, blast enemies with and out-maneuver laser blasts and enemy attacks with 2-D style twitch-based, adrenaline fueled gameplay.

]]> 19 Jun 2007 06:58:57 GUN is an action-packed game set in the wild west.

You start off as a hunter Colton White who works with his father Ned (voice by kris kristofferson) until something changes Colton's life forever. A long winding plot unfolds as you have to explore the lawless West to uncover the dark truth.

GUN is a fantastic 3rd person shooter with plenty of side missions to break up the main story. There is plenty of Old Western movie references and the atmosphere of the West is captured perfectly.

The action never stops. If riding horseback and shooting outlaws is your thing, then this is definitely your type of game!

]]> 12 Jun 2007 06:04:11 Graveyard of Drunken Souls puts you in a graveyard armed with a baseball bat and you must survive for as long as possible. There are a multitude of different hats and faces for your character, so you can find one that suits you. As you are fighting monsters, powerup boxes containing shotguns and flamethrowers will drop for your aid. Every 100 kills gives you the ability to choose a magic power to help you out. See how long you can last and how many monsters you can kill.

]]> 08 Jun 2007 06:22:54 Galaxy Fighter was made during the third year of my IT degree as part of a project subject. It isn't fantastic, but it was my first game! Written in C++ using DirectX 9.
(Thanks to Andre LaMothe from Xtreme Games for letting me use the artwork from his book "Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus".)

]]> 08 Jun 2007 06:14:22 A game very similar to geometry wars. Shoot everything that comes at you picking up powerups along the way, be sure to get your awesome meter as high as possible.

]]> 05 Jun 2007 05:50:28 Faceball 2000 is the first networked first person shooter for the Nintendo Game Boy. It used the Satellite connector to link up to 16 players in a game where the goal was to tag as many opponents as possible within the time limit. Participants had a happy-face appearance that belied the aggressive game play; in fact it received a Parent's Association award as the best non-violent game at the 1991 CES. There was also a single player mode where players had to solve puzzles and eliminate bots to complete levels. It won best Game boy game at CES 1991 as well. A SNES version released in 1992.

]]> 01 Jun 2007 04:31:49 Chalk is an arcade style scrolling shooter with a different kind of control scheme. Instead of shooting, you only have a piece of chalk with which you can draw. The way you defeat the enemies is different depending on the type. Some require all of the green dots to be connected, and others need to have their bullets connected back to them. There are bosses at the end of each level that will take a bit more thinking to destroy. The game is controlled entirely with the mouse, but the keyboard can be used as well.

]]> 30 May 2007 06:39:39 GLATTE

In Glatte you play a ship that must destroy as many dirty alien scum as possible. You have a photon torpedo launcher as well as a heat ray to help you destroy the dirty alien scum. Dirty alien scum are bad. Destroy them.

Glatte is a simple Galaga clone I made for a high school project two years ago. (2005) It's a small download, so just enjoy it on your lunch break for a few minutes.

]]> 20 May 2007 01:30:17 More Bloons is a puzzle type shooter. You have to aim carefully and pop a certain amount of balloons to complete each level. Use the mouse to angle and power up and let a dart fly.

]]> 02 May 2007 06:03:47 L.A.2 is Kenta Cho's first flash game, an action game based around the theme of Conway's Game of Life.

Like all of Cho's recent games, it's an abstract shooter. You control your ship with the arrow keys, and have to avoid any blue and green squares coming at you. To defend yourself you can release so called gliders by pressing and holding the Z key. Any green squares that are touched by the brown glider will become brown as well (and any they touch will become brown and so on). When you release the Z key, all brown squares explode. The more brown squares there are, the more points you get.

To understand the behaviour of the groups squares, and how they move, a passing knowledge of Conway's Game of Life, and its rules might be helpful.

]]> 29 Apr 2007 06:12:05 Half-Life 2 Capture the Flag is a mod for half-life that lets you play Capture the Flag on all of the Half-Life 2 deathmatch maps, and more.

]]> 29 Apr 2007 03:54:27 Burnie the Fire Elemental must survive waves of attacking demons while preventing the Bat-Like Mailer Daemons from escaping to deliver a message.

Each time a Mailer Daemon gets past him, the time limit is suspended, and he must battle a gigantic multi-tentacled, shape-changing demon called the Zuuling.

Move Burnie using the keyboard, and fire by aiming the mouse. The longer you hold the mouse button, the larger the fireballs Burnie can hurl. Large fireballs are faster and can burn through multiple demons.

Shooting fireballs uses Mana, which can be replaced by holding the spacebar to Meditate. Meditation leaves Burnie vulnerable. Demons drop mana powerups when you send one fireball through multiple demons, each one leaves a larger powerup. Demons also drop life powerups when you create chain-reactions by burning demons that touch each other.

The game is actually episode 112 of the webcomic Nerdcore: the Core Wars. There are three possible endings, depending on how well you perform. The game has 3 difficulty modes, 3 speed settings, and Audio options.

]]> 23 Mar 2007 02:02:13 Admittedly a little dated now, but here's a feature list:

Features of Orbus include:

Hordes of enemies

Three distinct weapons, each with multiple power levels

Full-screen, non-stop eye candy

Up to four wingman to aid your ship

Customizable sound track system

]]> 22 Mar 2007 09:33:25 Armada offers a version of the classic top-down space shooter (think Asteroids), updated with elements familiar from role playing games: 6 unique races; experience and leveling-up; equippable ship upgrades; and an overarching (though admittedly slender) storyline.

The long and short of it is, you must save the human race from the relentless alien armada. Combining the sheer joy of blowing things up with the obsessive just-one-more-level of an RPG, this game is ready to spring upon and devour large portions of your life. And your friends' -- Armada supports single-screen co-op for up to four players.

]]> 20 Mar 2007 09:46:34 A Particular Thing is a fast-paced, chaotic top-down shooter featuring intuitive gameplay and controls (mouse-control only!), continuous play (after you start, you don't have to stop), fourteen enemy types, five+ weapons, etc.

]]> 13 Mar 2007 10:16:22 MISSION:
An enemies armada is just ahead. Sneak up behind them, fly through and take down as many ships as possible.
After your mission has been completed we'll finish them. Good Luck!

This is my first XNA game. Very simple, very easy. This was just to sink my teeth into XNA and hopefully, if a find a host, I can put it up for download. One interface bug, but minor and doesn't effect gameplay.

]]> 13 Mar 2007 02:50:28 This is one of the games I am working on with Chaosepoch (Whose Profile can be found here: http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/user/snowfox), this one being a less serious one that we probably won't put into commercial use.

I am always brimming with ideas for games, but lack the ability to programme them, so on one of my many brain farts I created some levels, a scenario and characters, all for this side scrolling shooter game.
Chaosepoch actually took a liking to the idea (he likes coding games) and agreed to code the game for me.

So far all we have is one example level (i.e. a level that won't be used in the game once it's coded properly) and the basic game play structure (i.e. side scrolling, and shooting).

There are only two of the 29 enemies present in this demo clip and none of the power-ups, special moves, or anything like that.
This is merely just a little taster of what I am working on, and nothing here is set in stone.
The only thing that is definite is that the main character is a flying platypus that shoots eggs from it's bill.
Yep.

You play as a Platypus who has been sucked into a bizarre under water world of monsters, clowns and toilets who all want to kill you.
There are plenty of weird bosses too, such classics as one boss being a giant robot giraffe who hurls newts at you, and another being a giant floating mans head which resembles a tea pot his skull opens up to reveal a soggy tea bag which you have to hit to do him damage.

A lot of work needs to be done, this is FAR from finished...

The artwork, level design, character design and concept is Copyright Unnatural Lump
The behind the scenes coding/programming is Copyright Chaosepoch

Jack In The Bog Productions
All Rights Reserved.

]]> 11 Mar 2007 09:35:31 Survive the onslaught for as long as you can. You are an elite commando, with access to multiple weapons. In addition to your standard rifle, you have a rocket launcher, shotgun, grenades, and mines. As you run and jump across the map, more and more soldiers will come after you. First soldiers will just run on to the map. However, they will eventually begin to parachute into the battlefield, and call in snipers as well. Survive for as long as you can while racking up the kills and headshots.

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