Invaders

Everyone of Paul Paterson's games are great, except this one. To be fair, he disclaims that this project is to teach himself about the Unity Engine. And the project may yet be updated and improved (His later Unity game is good). No improvements here over the original. Too many problems to list. Here's a few. You can move right off the playfield. You can just sit there safe as alien invaders come closer an closer to earth. Then finally they touch down and reverse direction. Then then penetrate the Earth and reverse direction. They continue until they vanish deep into the Earth. Eventually they will appear in the sky once more. But you don't have to hide to observe this. There are several places on the screen where the aliens or their UFO will never shoot you. When they get low enough, they'll pass right through you. Collisions are troubles elsewhere as well. Your bolts will explode in the sky if fail to strike an alien craft. Sometimes they will pass through a craft to destroy it and the craft above it. Sometimes they will just pass through. They also randomly pass through your cover.You may want to avoid shooting altogether, after you hear the horrid screen made by your bolts.

QANAT is a great fixed shooter in the space invaders style. I recommend it. I sincerely hope he fixes Invaders and removed this one black sport in his lineup.

OK, you can shoot an incoming bolt and the colliding bolts make a nice explosion. I'll give that.


zerothis # 2014-02-28 01:44:20

I started learning how to develop using the Unity3d engine.
As a way of getting familiar with how it works I made a version of the classic "Space Invaders" game.
[SCREENSHOT]
Once completed, I plan to release this as code, executables and playable through the web. Unity makes this pretty easy so it is nice to try out that functionality.
[this has been done]

Paul Paterson - # 2014-02-28 01:47:32 - official description

software: Unity,

display: raster

clone of
Space Invaders (Arcade)