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Post by cactus on Nov 13, 2008 11:55:45 GMT -5
Let's go to war people! Here's my entry for the latest Poppenkast competition. I liked it enough to work a whole day on it together with my man Terry who designed most of the levels and wrote most of the military talk. X O L D I E R SDownload:64digits.com/users/cactus/xoldiers.zipHighscore table:distractionware.com/cactus/xoldiers/highscore.phpControls:Z - Shoot X - Dodge enemy bullets C - Throw grenades Arrows - move And no bitching about the explosions. The theme of the compo was "excessive". If anyone wants more I can make a level editor for this game pretty easily.
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Post by ronnoc on Nov 13, 2008 13:20:46 GMT -5
And no bitching about the explosions. The theme of the compo was "excessive". Bitching? Those explosions are awesome!
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Post by madamluna on Nov 13, 2008 14:30:45 GMT -5
Good god, this game is fantastic. The music, the style, the writing, it's all awesome. I love how you occasionally will have to force one or some of your soldiers to die for the sake of maneuverability. Really fits "to be a true hero, a xoldier must follow an order to die!"
[edit: oh man that final level. All those explosions. It's heaven.]
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Post by Akhiloth on Nov 13, 2008 15:38:04 GMT -5
I had an euphoric feeling.. You made my day week month with an another great game.
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Post by deceasedcrab on Nov 13, 2008 23:29:49 GMT -5
This game is fantastic, and right now I'm at the top of the leaderboards with 1211919! Challenge my score if daring do!
I thought the angle and quotes were fantastic. The gameplay reminded me of Mercenary Force for the Gameboy. And I enjoyed the style of it.
If you release a level editor for it, I will definitely make levels for it. It would also be cool if we could control the formation of the soldiers, but not necessary. Anyway, do what makes you happy! I know playing this game made me happy.
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Post by cesque on Nov 14, 2008 6:28:14 GMT -5
Awesome! I feel like going to war now. I didn't make it to the highscore But hey, the 4-before-the-end-or-so mission took me like seven trials.
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Post by farik on Nov 14, 2008 14:24:59 GMT -5
pretty cool, especially when you end up with only one guy left... excitement!
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Post by johtoken on Nov 15, 2008 0:20:01 GMT -5
Played this game...and I managed to beat DeceasedCrab. I'm gonna aim for a higher score. Hooray for enemy chaining and chain timer stalling! Also, I wouldn't mind a level editor, too.
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Post by cesque on Nov 15, 2008 15:07:46 GMT -5
Oh gosh. How do you guys get such highscores? Also, I found a buggy bug bug: A constant stream of explosion smokeys... this also happened for me in the last level.
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Post by johtoken on Nov 15, 2008 16:41:45 GMT -5
Oh gosh. How do you guys get such highscores? You have to chain entire levels to get big points each level. I spent about 20 tries trying to find a good way to full-chain the 3rd-to-last level. A good way to keep your chain going is killing the enemy cars and people to reset the chain timer. This will give you more time to get to buildings far away if you do this. Also, full-chaining the last level is a MUST. Most of your score comes from that level alone...900,000+ points, to be exact.
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Post by Akhiloth on Nov 15, 2008 16:58:26 GMT -5
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Post by johtoken on Nov 15, 2008 19:10:22 GMT -5
My high score of 1,483,885pts. is pretty difficult to top, as far as I'm concerned. I full-chained eight levels to get this score, and I restarted about over 50 times to get this.
The only way that you can beat this is if you manage to pull off a really good chain on Level 7. Level 6 and 7 are impossible to truly full-chain because of the inability to fire backwards. In this case, a score of 1,500,000pts or more would basically top the game here as far as scoring's concerned.
And because of this...I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you make that level editor for this game to add replay value to it.
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Post by ronnoc on Nov 16, 2008 3:07:46 GMT -5
Oh gosh. How do you guys get such highscores? Also, I found a buggy bug bug: A constant stream of explosion smokeys... this also happened for me in the last level. I got that too, but I thought it was because of my Smokin' Hot Score!
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Zayro
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Post by Zayro on Nov 16, 2008 19:34:09 GMT -5
We NEED the level editor. And a server dedicated to uploading levels.
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Post by cactus on Nov 16, 2008 19:46:34 GMT -5
We NEED the level editor. And a server dedicated to uploading levels. I'm actually probably going to fulfill both of those requests.
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