Hey there. I am loving this game. We are covering it on this months episode of the Pixel Gaiden Podcast. What a great use of ASCII this is. I am enjoying playing this so much.
What was your inspiration on this, it kinda has that cross over between JetPac and R-Type.
Why was there no inclusion of a bomb as well as the laser shot, I guess that ramps up the difficulty or is it simply it would have been hard to implement with one button?
Thank you again for an excellent game!
Lovely to see this getting attention after nearly 10 years!
There was no real inspiration behind it - I don’t like shoot-em ups, especially R-Type (controversial I know) - it was purely that I hadn’t written one so thought I’d have a go. There’s no ‘bomb as well as laser’ because I simply didn’t know that was a thing - I just wrote what I wanted to play, not a copy of any existing game or style.
Likewise with the ASCII art - I thought it would be an interesting look to try, although that turned out to be the most difficult thing as there’s lots of pixel-based editors, but few few ASCII ones, and none I could find which handled the low ‘resolution’ I was working at.
