Review of Spaceship Beta
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Spaceship Beta Review
By blak on
11 October 2008
Pros: Nice, simple (and original) graphics. Excellent Power Ups System. Good choice of music. Password System (you really should tell me how to do something like that! XD)
Cons: Too short (at least for me).
Spaceship Beta Review
"Spaceship Beta" is a very simple (yet well made) shoot'em up game. It seems to be influenced mostly by the Gradius series, and that's a good thing for me. The game's graphics was entirely made by Ya!: some sprites are very good; for some reason, I really liked the "walking-cannons". The game also features BGMs from many videogames but, unlike MANY other games on this website, the music fits very well (if you don't like a Mega Man Boss Music for a shoot'em up videogame, then you have no soul!).
However, what is the best thing of "Spaceship Beta"? The answer is simple: the Power Ups! I've never seen a game (or at least one like this) where you can keep Power Ups and use them whenever you want: I mean, this is quite original and well made in my opinion...
Another thing I liked was the password system: very useful, and helps the player a lot since the game's final levels are quite challenging.
Overall, this is a very good game.
PS: This game is actually a sequel. What happened to the first one?
Yal said 408 days ago
Well, nobody liked the first one, since it was too hard (and I didn't use the power-up system in it), so I decided to erase it to make sure nobody saw that I've made bad games. But your review has inspired me! I'm going to upgrade Spaceship Alpha and re-release it! Thanks, it's a really good review.
Yal said 408 days ago
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And yeah, the password system only checks keyboard_string (a variable checking the last 1024 typed characters), and goes to the levels if the entered string is equal to one of the passwords. But i guess you could use the string part functions, check 5 letters at a time and do stuff, to make a real password system that saves e.g. energy tanks, room, beat bosses and so.