Cyanocide by nicotuason

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made by nicotuason for LD27 (COMPO)
Cyanocide is an intense dogfighting game set in an abstract neon world. Shoot down enemies and collect powerups to extend your time.

Controls:
- move mouse away from ship to speed up
- move mouse close to ship to slow down and tighten turn radius
- left mouse button to fire

I STRONGLY recommend listening to electro dance breakbeat dubstep music while playing this. Music like this: http://jessevalentinemusic.bandcamp.com/album/free-mega-album-30-tracks

Ratings

Coolness 80% 2
Overall 3.47 195
Audio 2.52 573
Fun 3.58 99
Graphics 4.38 15
Humor 1.58 912
Innovation 2.60 830
Mood 3.24 220
Theme 1.88 1157

Feedback

@TeddyNashor
26. Aug 2013 · 09:13 UTC
graphically stunning and fun. not sure I see the theme, also the sound effects dont mesh with the mood of the art. maybe make them softer?
LittleThor
26. Aug 2013 · 09:16 UTC
Classic game but very nice graphics and controls!
Budda
26. Aug 2013 · 09:16 UTC
Cool little game, I like the way you control the speed/turning. Has a nice trade-off that the faster you go the more accurate you are, but slower lets you turn faster to catch up to nearby enemies.
Spotline
26. Aug 2013 · 09:17 UTC
Great great graphics and gamefeel, but I don't see the theme there
Blue Steel
26. Aug 2013 · 09:19 UTC
Finaly a a game of this nature that i can play with my mouse.. ;) I only have one Arm ;)
mitkus
26. Aug 2013 · 09:27 UTC
Very very cool! I like that you kept game scope minimal and managed to polish it. Visuals are very nice, but most of all I liked the flight manuevers. Got a bit boring after a while, but still a great game.
Sergey Mohov
26. Aug 2013 · 09:38 UTC
Really nice and polished. Feels great, looks great, plays great. Has a great dogfight feel to it. Amazing job!
doonay21
26. Aug 2013 · 10:56 UTC
No theme at all. I like how smooth the movement is.
nitrocrime
26. Aug 2013 · 11:00 UTC
Graphics are awesome! Gameplay is a bit easy it feels..
Armix
26. Aug 2013 · 11:02 UTC
Visually awesome and (personally) inspiring, however like many others here, I don't really see the theme in this, despite it looking and feeling hectic. :)
Jimanzium
26. Aug 2013 · 11:03 UTC
Insane graphics for two days! Great smooth gameplay, good job!
Corné Dorrestijn
26. Aug 2013 · 11:59 UTC
Very nice graphics, i really like the classic look but with a bit 3D in it. The controls are also very nice.
alwaysinbeta
26. Aug 2013 · 12:10 UTC
Very playable, controls feel good. I like the whole look of it with the colors and the trails.
proc
26. Aug 2013 · 12:37 UTC
Great controls and graphically lovely. Shame you didn't make the music you recommended but listening to it felt like a fit for the game so thanks for the suggestion. I too don't see the theme but would like to know where it is.
Andrew Shouldice
26. Aug 2013 · 12:51 UTC
Cool! It's a lot of fun when you're chasing targets and then fly through their explosion. Great music choice!
cwkx
26. Aug 2013 · 13:22 UTC
Beautiful little game, very fun to play too.
AdventureIslands
26. Aug 2013 · 19:01 UTC
Cool looking and smooth playing! I don't see what it has to do with 10 seconds though.
bytegrove
26. Aug 2013 · 22:51 UTC
Oh glob it's pretty! The controls are really smooth and they work really well! I'd love to see this game on a touchscreen device.
Some extrapolation from the theme, but nothing major imo.
Pretty sneaky of you to recommend a playlist though, hehe, ah whatever. :P
Cool game, nice work!
avh4
27. Aug 2013 · 06:14 UTC
Sweet simplicity! The controls felt really nice. I especially liked the simplicity of the menu system--your thrown right into the game, and it restarts automatically (after a nicely-timed pause in the action). I'd love to see harder enemies appear over time.
rxi
27. Aug 2013 · 10:10 UTC
Unfortunately didn't run for me initially. I ended up having to download the page and the swf file, and modify a line in the page's javascript so that it would run. I believe this is because linux's flash player doesn't go up to version 11.7, but the javascript specified a required version of 11.7 -- though the applet itself seems to run fine on the older player.

I suggest you set the following line in the HTML file:

var swfVersionStr = "11.7.0";

to:

var swfVersionStr = "0.0.0";

This will assure anyone encountering my issue will be able to play the game.


Visuals are great (as others have mentioned!). A very stark and unique style which is very appealing. Simple game play, but it felt as if the controls gave it depth, they took some getting used to, but that wasn't at all a bad thing. It's a shame some of that electro music you mention couldn't have been implemented into the game!
dom2d
27. Aug 2013 · 11:28 UTC
NICO! You're alive! ^_^ So glad to see you here and to play another one of your epic games!
This is amazing. Such a good control scheme, with super clever UI to go with it. Congrats man!!
Dream Of Sleeping
27. Aug 2013 · 13:37 UTC
I liked the graphics and the controls system. I love the fact you have a link to some music. What a great loop hole to get sound in your game that wasn't made by yourself in 48 hours. The music went very well with the game.

I thought there was no real use of the theme. Sorry but just having a timer doesn't really count in my opinion. You could have just had "You have 10 seconds to make a kill" and a count down. and that would have been fine, plus it would have given the game a sense of urgency.
Kohijin
27. Aug 2013 · 15:13 UTC
Love the very sleek designs and the controls feel smooth. But I really don't feel the theme here... Still a great bit of fun!
4xisblack
27. Aug 2013 · 20:28 UTC
Super pretty. The thruster trails are an excellent touch, especially given how the ship flips around when you bank.
BlackBulletIV
28. Aug 2013 · 04:44 UTC
Man, that was really fun, and the graphics are so aesthetically pleasing.

I know you have a timer-based life system, but from I observed it's based more around 60 seconds than 10 seconds. Therefore I don't think it really fits the theme at all.

Aside from that, great game.
PhiL Blunt
28. Aug 2013 · 10:58 UTC
Very nice indeed.
TeamFlare
28. Aug 2013 · 13:13 UTC
Awesome colorscheme and smooth controlls. Stylish and fun :)!
designatius
28. Aug 2013 · 14:25 UTC
Really fun to play! Very polished and smooth, brilliant job :)
kazukishida
29. Aug 2013 · 08:57 UTC
Very polished and unique, but very intuitive controls, nice minimal and tight UI! I especially like how you can maneuver to the general direction of an enemy ship, fly to it while firing, and eventually intersect paths with the ship --- it felt like a top-down dogfight! The way the enemy ships also waver when it's critically damaged really looked extremely good. Very well done!

I couldn't give you top score for audio, though, because for me, essentially, your game only had sfx. I listened to your recommended song while playing it, and it was really cool, but since it wasn't technically part of your game, I can't rate it with the soundtrack in mind, sorry. :(

Also, I'm not sure what relation it had to the theme. :O
psychomonster
29. Aug 2013 · 19:47 UTC
smooth gameplay, fantastic game art... cool scoring... survived for 209s and killed 21 enemy... nice !
Richard Matey
30. Aug 2013 · 15:29 UTC
Fantastic work, really love the style of the art and the feel of the controls
ratalaika
30. Aug 2013 · 17:11 UTC
good job
Diogo Muller
31. Aug 2013 · 15:06 UTC
Nice graphics, good controls. I don't get where the theme was used, but overall it's a good game.
goyal
31. Aug 2013 · 18:55 UTC
so pretty!!

The aircrafts moves kinda fast, it was hard to aim and shoot.
Roan Contreras
01. Sep 2013 · 08:42 UTC
Excellent 3d game :D
Raiyumi
03. Sep 2013 · 21:29 UTC
Nice! Has slick controls and graphics, and played really smooth.
xrm0
11. Sep 2013 · 19:35 UTC
Great game, but where is anything related to the theme?
ghRibacki
11. Sep 2013 · 23:13 UTC
Very cool atmosphere! The suggested sound track fits very well, too bad you couldn't make your own music to put into the game.
I like the controls a lot! I don't think I have seen this type of control in a game before.
Graphics are amazing and the sound effects are ok.

Good game! =D