Comments on: Droid Assault

By: mujadaddy

mujadaddy — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:12:49 +0000

@Lim-Dul: Is there any way to get in touch with you? I’d like to email you something you might find helpful/enjoyable. My email is my RPS username @ any-of-the-big3-email-providers .com…

By: Corbeaubm

Corbeaubm — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:26:59 +0000

Wow, that’s a heck of a game. Simple and elegant, with plenty of tricky situations. Bought it, played it, still loving it. Droid Assault is certainly worth the modest price.

By: Novotny

Novotny — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:25:28 +0000

Oh Lord I loved Paradroid. I’m so getting this

By: Lim-Dul

Lim-Dul — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:42:26 +0000

I didn’t like Freedroid because it stayed very much true to the original and I’m not the kind of guy to automatically develop sentimental feelings towards remakes of ~30 year old games.
However, Droid Assault and in fact all the other “puppyfied” games like Ultratron and Titan Attacks are simply awesome. They show precisely what should be done with arcade classics to make them attractive to modern gamers. You should take the originals only as a basis to expand upon and modernize not only the music or graphics but the gameplay as well and add some features we take for granted nowadays (like saves).

Also, Cas (the developer – quite a nice guy) understated the number of available droids – there are actually 50 in the game. I know that because I’m currently writing a guide for Droid Assault and Cas helps me by providing various sprites etc. ^^

Indeed at $10 you feel like ripping off the developers even if you do buy the full version. =)

The game is nice, but I can’t help to feel that something’s missing – maybe more variety between the robots instead of them just having different speed, armor and shot rate/damage.

Oh, there IS a lot of variety between the robots. You just don’t get to see it in the demo since you don’t get access to weapons like rocket and grenade launchers until later in the game. Also, the antigrav drive doesn’t play such a huge role in the beginning. Later on you have to invest quite some thought into assembling the perfect droid team so that you can exploit certain weaknesses or take advantage of strategic terrain features like chasms.

The droids have different amounts of hitpoints, different speed, different movement types, different weapons, different armour, different sprites and even different AI… What more could you possibly wish for?

The droid reference section of my guide is more or less finished but I’d rather people didn’t edit it until I have finished writing the whole thing. =)

http://www.indiefaqs.com/index.php/Droid_Assault_Guide

By: Arnulf

Arnulf — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:46:39 +0000

Paradroid, yes! I remember it. Fondly. Never could clear a whole ship though... There's a remake called Freedroid.

By: mujadaddy

mujadaddy — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:26:30 +0000

/joins Paradroid bandwagon…

That game was hard! :)

By: terry

terry — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:54:06 +0000

Quazatron is obviously the best robot game *folds arms petulantly*

By: cliffski

cliffski — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:53:25 +0000

worth mentioning that this game is astonishingly cheap too. As well as bastard hard,.

By: slang

slang — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:52:51 +0000

Bought the full version, game is really great. Pure arcade bliss. And yes, it’s basically a action oriented remake of Paradroid. Even the devs over at puppygames mention it.

By: Dolphan

Dolphan — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:47:47 +0000

The angel one was called Messiah, IIRC.

By: Hermes

Hermes — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:46:33 +0000

Titan Attacks is also terrific, I’d highly recommend it if you enjoy this. They employ the same art style.

By: cheeba

cheeba — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:06:51 +0000

I’m frankly amazed you managed to get through that article without mentioning Paradroid.