Solid with a lovely opening crawl and a nice logo design. The ships lasers are very pretty, and that level music feels like a chiptune classic. I almost hated clearing a level because the main music stopped for a few seconds.
One sentence review: "Starbase Assault gives you the ship, the weapons and the enemies, but can you bring the pilot we need to win freedom?"
This is awesome. I really like the wave design and the starbase is so good.
One thing about the pickups though .. They seem really rare which is ok but going sideways can feel really annoying especially when killing an enemy close to edge to have pickup disappear off screen 0.2 seconds later. Could maybe still go sideways (for extra risk in getting them) but always go the max distance to side of screen maybe (so if dropped on left goes to right and on right goes to left etc).
Thanks for the feedback! Got some similar comments over on the Lexaloffle BBS. Next version, the powerups are gonna bounce off the sides of the screen to help out with this. :)
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Solid with a lovely opening crawl and a nice logo design. The ships lasers are very pretty, and that level music feels like a chiptune classic. I almost hated clearing a level because the main music stopped for a few seconds.
One sentence review: "Starbase Assault gives you the ship, the weapons and the enemies, but can you bring the pilot we need to win freedom?"
This is awesome. I really like the wave design and the starbase is so good.
One thing about the pickups though .. They seem really rare which is ok but going sideways can feel really annoying especially when killing an enemy close to edge to have pickup disappear off screen 0.2 seconds later. Could maybe still go sideways (for extra risk in getting them) but always go the max distance to side of screen maybe (so if dropped on left goes to right and on right goes to left etc).
Thanks for the feedback! Got some similar comments over on the Lexaloffle BBS. Next version, the powerups are gonna bounce off the sides of the screen to help out with this. :)