Post I.T. Shooter
Here’s my first Experimental Gameplay Project (v3.0) contribution. The theme was Unexperimental Shooter. Don’t ask me why. I tried to stick to theme to the best of ability, which turned out to be harder than I originally thought it would be. My first try spinned off to the experimental territory faster than cactus makes games. (I’m still working on that more “experimental” game, but it has already passed the 7 day deadline by mile).
Post I.T. Shooter is a shooter made out of post-it notes. Basically it’s a low resolution (32 x 24) shooter with a stop motion esque rendering. The other cool part about the game is that it generates space invaders randomly. The algorithm for this was way too fun to write and play around with and it was inspired by Jared Tarbell’s Invader Fractal algorithm.
Post I.T. Shooter
Download
Post_it.zip (7.4 Mb) (release 1)
Instructions
Your girlfriend was killed in the destruction of I.T. and the Gods promised that they’ll bring her back if you kill enough invaders.
Arrow keys move Moss (the last IT guy) around and use space to fire his killer laser beam.
Credits
Game Design, Code & Gfx: Petri Purho
Music: Martinibomb - The Love God. The song “The Love God” is freely available at http://www.comfortstand.com/catalog/049/ under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic -license.
Sound Effects created with the DrPetter’s sfxr.
Fractal Invaders inspired by Jared Tarbell’s Invader Fractal.
Post I.T. Shooter uses: SDL, SDL_Image, SDL_Mixer and GLEW.
July 11th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
wow. that looks amazing!
July 11th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
I wonder, where you got inspired for that story.
July 11th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Petri, you’re my hero again.
July 11th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Best way I’ve ever seen to make super-lores pixel art look good. I love it!
July 11th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Good story, awesome design!
July 11th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Awesome, Petri you are a master!
July 11th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
very cool!
July 11th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
[...] Post I.T. Shooter has a stop-motion thing going on involving post-it notes and it works so well. Players move their ship using the arrow keys and press space to fire at the randomly-generated alien invaders. There’s not much to it gameplay-wise, but who cares when it’s that incredibly amazing to look at! [...]
July 11th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
great little game! good job:)
July 11th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
“Your girlfriend was killed in the destruction of I.T. and the Gods promised that they’ll bring her back if you kill enough invaders.”
hahaha
Nice graphics, reminds me of this really well done stop motion film using post its - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWM0FNPZSs
July 11th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
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July 12th, 2009 at 4:06 am
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July 12th, 2009 at 5:23 am
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July 12th, 2009 at 7:00 am
Very good looking game!!
July 12th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
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July 12th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Looks nice but has a bug on my laptop:
Basically you see the whole playfield twice. Also, after the “you died” message the game crashes.
This laptop is spoiled by an integrated Intel 965 chipset.
July 12th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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July 12th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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July 13th, 2009 at 2:02 am
this is just an amazing little game.
July 13th, 2009 at 9:27 am
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July 13th, 2009 at 9:31 am
The postits are lovely!
Please tell me your next game will feature pipe cleaners, macaroni, and seashells glued to some cardboard.
July 13th, 2009 at 9:33 am
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July 14th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Everytime you come up with an awesome idea……..we get to play an awesome game…
July 14th, 2009 at 11:06 am
We thought it was awesome and hence ran a new story on it. I’ll add the url if it’s not considered bad etiquette. Cheers Tim from SPOnG.com.
July 14th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
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July 14th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Tim Smith: posting url’s is not considered bad etiquette
July 14th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
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July 15th, 2009 at 12:02 am
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July 15th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Damn, either this game is just ridiculously hard or it needs processor independence. Literally a second after I start the game I die.
July 15th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Is there an end to this game? It says once I’ve killed enough, I get the girl; but how much is enough? And is she really worth it?
July 15th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
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July 21st, 2009 at 11:32 am
See http://estomac.tumblr.com/post/141458833/bloody-dope-a-bloody-zombies-mod-parody
A parody of Bloody Zombies
July 21st, 2009 at 6:52 pm
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July 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 am
Awesome, and setting it to that song was a stroke of genius.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 9:54 pm
[...] Post I.T. Shooter is a 7 day long game project by Petri Purho created for the Experimental Gameplay Project (v3.0), a group of indie game developers, running a friendly competition every month. The rules: Make a game based on the month’s theme, and don’t spend more than 7 days. Post I.T. Shooter is a game made out of post-it notes. Post I.T. Shooter is a low resolution (32 x 24 “pixels”) stop motion style animation game. You may also be surprised by it’s difficulty as moving around the space with only 32 pixels is apparently much harder than you think . [...]
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:12 am
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July 24th, 2009 at 9:15 am
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July 25th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
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July 28th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Really it is gr8 post and too informative as well.
July 28th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
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August 5th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Great game! every time I play it I just can’t get my head around how you’ve done it, really clever idea. Looks amazing and keep up the good work!
August 10th, 2009 at 1:58 am
I was afraid my laptop wouldn’t be able to run it (since GroundHog I’ve become more aware of why-a-laptop-without-a-video-card-sucks), but I was so relieved to see such a beatiful game run so smoothly!
The music is also excellent (I haven’t confirmed it, but I think the compositor has also produced the themes for Grammr Nazi and Knock the Monster)!
Lots of fun, needless to say.
August 11th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
[...] thought it was so cool that Petri used Chronolapse to film the making of Post I.T. Shooter, so I used the same thing for Stimergy [...]
August 19th, 2009 at 2:41 am
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August 23rd, 2009 at 2:07 am
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August 24th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Seriously, this music is awesome.
September 15th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
gooooooooooooood
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:17 am
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October 3rd, 2009 at 5:57 am
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October 14th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Basically, I’ve tried this game on a number of different machines and it still doesn’t work for me. It’s the only one of Petri’s game I’ve had any problem with.
November 10th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
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December 21st, 2009 at 7:18 am
Thank you for this information.
January 12th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
[...] Meggy Jr, using some of Oryx’s sprites! It’s reminiscent of Petri Purho’s Post I.T. Shooter. It’s called Led’s Get Shooting!, and you can download it here [...]
January 27th, 2010 at 7:18 am
Very cool!
Thanks.
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:08 pm
wery nice by admin
February 12th, 2010 at 2:13 am
creative.. i liked it..