Comments on: Robots AND Killing: Robokill

By: taca

taca — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:17:04 +0000

como se juega!!!!

By: DonaldDuck

DonaldDuck — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:49:38 +0000

Kieron – I’ll have to disagree quite strongly on one of your points — instant kills can be a fantastic mechanic when the game is carefully designed. For a recent example, Mega Man 9.
I agree in this case, but you make it sound as a rule of thumb. Some games simply need the instant death mechanic to achieve their potential, without it they would become fuzzy, unfocused, and plain boring as their main draw is a pure challenge.

By: caesarbear

caesarbear — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:28:59 +0000

The issue with the falling is that unlike standard shoot’em ups, Robokill pulls your attention away from your character. In most scrolling shooters and flash shooters the player need not look at the enemies to shoot them and can focus on dodging around incoming shots. Robokill demands a bit more awareness about the other objects in the room and as a consequence it’s easy to fall into the similarly contrasted pit. As a mechanic itself, it’s not a bad thing, just challenging, but where it goes wrong is making it the most severe challenge of the game at times. The game is too easy without the pits, but the risk/reward balance of them is way off.

By: Post Maker

Post Maker — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:13:08 +0000

Since everyone’s talking about game design, now would seem to be a good time to mention that GamePoop has been updated after a semi-long hiatus.

My computer broke recently though, so updates are going to continue to be few, far between and potentially poorly thought out.

By: Tei

Tei — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:27:01 +0000

Grrrreat game :-)

By: pepper

pepper — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:31:39 +0000

Aw, you insensitive clod!

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:09:18 +0000

*in unison with the others* NO!!!

By: pepper

pepper — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:51:53 +0000

Can i be a gamedeveloper then? Since you lads only tend to focus on design ^_^?!

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:51:19 +0000

Robokill is OK. The 'Diablo-ness' makes it quite addictive, up to the point where the poor balance (i.e. rooms that instantly kill you) and unsuitability of Flash (weedy graphics, unresponsive input, lengthy initial loading time) become intolerable. (YMMV.) Droid Assault is infinitely better though. Looks nicer, controls better, is genuinely strategic and you get tons more levels in the full version. One of the best games I played last year.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:40:20 +0000

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/03/24/nanosmiles/

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:39:49 +0000

Oh, already been posted, too ^^

Well then, I guess the internets are finally overfished and we can all go and play in the sun.

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:25:46 +0000

Also, Kieron: Instead of giving the RPS teatsucklemind games that have already been threaded, rather give them Nanosmiles.

http://engrishgames.blogspot.com/2008/02/nanosmiles.html