Small-Time Scorched Earth Invasion
TIGSource hosted another one their funky game development competitions. This time you had to create a game based on a name you got from the Video Game Name Generator. Much like in the real industry; you get a generic name and then you have build a game around it.
My entry was coded pretty much during the last day of the competition. It’s called Small-Time Scorched Earth Invasion. Basically it’s a mash up game, I mashed in Scorched Earth with Space Invaders and Missile Command. “Small-Time” in the title referes to the development model…
Sorry for messing up the game a month schedule again. I blame the deadline of the competition.
Small-Time Scorched Earth Invasion
Download
Scorched_release1.zip (6,3 MB) (Release 1)
Instructions
You play as the scorched earth tank and your job is to defend the earth from space invaders. The development progress can be best described as “Small-Time”.
Move with “A” and “D”, aim with mouse and fire with left mouse button.
Space invaders and your rockets will do damage to earth if they hit the planet. Try to survive as long as you can.
Credits
Game Design, Code & Gfx: Petri Purho ( petri.purho (at) gmail.com )
Music: Mr. Fab - Bossa Super Nova. The song is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 1.0 license. It is freely available at http://www.archive.org/details/csr020 under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 1.0 license.
Inspiration source: Experimental Gameplay Project.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Hell yes, i have been checking like once an hour for new updates.
now downloading =]
yeeeeeaaaassss
im going to need to think of a way to mod it lol
March 26th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Yeah, me too!! (But not the mod part
)
March 26th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Wow! Playing now. This game is really great. When missels orbited the earth I was like, woooo, didn’t see that coming. Fun game!
March 26th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Really cool game. Makes me laugh how most of the file size is the single mp3 file
March 26th, 2008 at 6:57 am
It’s a good premise, but I found I could get a really high score by putting a ring of missiles in a small stable orbit, and just replenish them as they blew up. Once I had got that sussed, it was just button mashing.
Perhaps the missiles could have fuel, and once that runs out, their orbit begins to decay.
The only other small gripe I have is that the explosions (and only the explosions) show a black border around the arrow, which looks really odd. I’d get rid of it altogether, personally.
It’s a shame you didn’t use the 8-bit Earth image- it’s really cool.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
good work!this is one of the best games you ever made!(this is maybe even better that the amazing flying brothers)
March 26th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Ahh, a fun little one.
Kind of suffers from the same kind of that that made Pluto not very much fun, gravity. The missiles come back and you end up shooting yourself half the time. Occasionally would be find, but it’s nearly ALWAYS, and even if they miss on the first pass back, they keep coming.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Nice little thing. ^^
But thiiiis long time til the next one? Oh…. Could that mean… What we’re all waiting for?
March 27th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Really fun game! Keep up the good work! I loved the Gravitational Field that you implemented. I just made a ring of orbiting missles and just kept clickin’! Altogether, I’d give it a 10/10!
March 27th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Hi Petri!
Quite Ok game! But I really missed those sound effects. And for me your games are usually quite difficult. One game lasts only 3-4 minutes and usually if people cannot get somethig to work within 10 minutes they will get bored and leave. This happens to me in many times when trying out your games.
I think the first impression, first 10 mins, are the most important time. If the player don’t succes in that time he probably will get bored and don’t come back..
+ Orginality
+ Easy to learn
- Player die too fast
- Not so long lasting
- No sound effects
Nice little thing anyway. Good luck and best wishes for future!
March 27th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
thanks YOU for a NICE games!
March 29th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Hey,
I can’t get this one to work either, I had the same problem with Cancer Wars. Windows XP just says that “Sovelluksen käynnistäminen epäonnistui, koska sovelluksen kokoonpano on viallinen. Sovellukseen asentaminen uudelleen saattaa korjata ongelman.”
March 30th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
This game surprised me: It looked a bit silly on your screenshots. Once I tried it for myself - I knew better: This game is going to be great!
I would like to link it on http://www.spieleforschung.de (game research) or http://www.digitalewelten.net (my blog: digital worlds).
I’s so cool, that you used the space invaders. They are the logo of my site!
Your games are good examples for game design.
Can’t wait for the next release. This one has a lot of potential. Besides, Crayon
Physics and TAFB are still my favorites. I’m sooo waiting for CP Deluxe. I told everyone about that game. I think it can be used for edutainment or just for fun in school (and for sure kindergarten
All the best, Christian
April 1st, 2008 at 11:24 pm
I can’t open it.
Like the last one (Cancer wars) it gives the error Visual Studio projects give when running the debug version on another computer. (’De configuratie is onjuist’ in Dutch)
Anyone else having that problem?
April 4th, 2008 at 12:00 am
I have made for scorched in the theme of Crayon Physics. It would be 10x better if I could change the backround to paper. If anyone can, that would be cool. You can download the mod from http://www.box.net/shared/onwwkknk8g
April 6th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I was so pleasantly surprised to find that I could blow up oncoming missiles by shooting them! You’re a genius! Though you can live pretty much indefinitely by shooting a super low orbit ring of missiles at the slowest velocity. You are a god, keep it up.
April 14th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
That’s a pretty fun game you made here! I didn’t expect it to be that fun when home alone. Also, will there be a Crayon FAQ? (did you receive it?)
April 26th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Hehe, reached 276250 +)
The game is cool, and fun..
Many people complained about gravity, but I turned it into an advantage, and filled the planet with missile-satellites! The ultimate planet protection al song as the “ring of explosive steel” isn’t breached
I died because I actually had all the aliens come to me from all directions at once.. it looked rally scary XD
Thanks =)
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I have reached 878120 =)
Very funny game !
Love it !
May 21st, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Super game !
I have reached 931120
March 9th, 2009 at 5:59 am
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April 18th, 2009 at 5:17 am
earth fren
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September 15th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
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February 2nd, 2010 at 8:25 pm
wery nice
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:57 am
Thanks for the post, Great !
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August 31st, 2010 at 3:32 am
Really cool game.