{"author_link":"\/author\/ret44\/","author_name":"Ret44","author_uid":"3126","comments":[{"author_name":"3.14","author_uid":"22238","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:58pm","epoch":1367261580,"text":"Defeatet the boss twice, scored over 3500. How can beat this?"},{"author_name":"zompi","author_uid":"18112","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:38pm","epoch":1367263980,"text":"Old console = minimalism. Good controls, nice shooting, rather difficult. Just fun ;)"},{"author_name":"sfernald","author_uid":"258","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:20pm","epoch":1367270100,"text":"Remind me of astrosmash from the Intellivision! Good job replicating the 8bit console era. Definitely minimal back then, lol."},{"author_name":"ToastyAbraham","author_uid":"21311","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:25pm","epoch":1367270400,"text":"Awesome boss at the end but needed more variation in it's attacks top keep the fight interesting"},{"author_name":"Robert","author_uid":"20689","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:29pm","epoch":1367270640,"text":"Now _that's_ a retro game."},{"author_name":"aare","author_uid":"15039","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:01pm","epoch":1367276160,"text":"I love the effect that collecting powerups has on the ship. There is no such thing as to many spaceships :P"},{"author_name":"Jellycakes","author_uid":"13474","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:12am","epoch":1367280420,"text":"Was a nice shooter, definitely fit the theme. The sounds were a little repetitive and I would say include the story in the game because that adds to the feel of something else going on. Other than that, Nice job!"},{"author_name":"evoker","author_uid":"22245","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:35pm","epoch":1367328600,"text":"Love the retro aesthetics. Bonus points for the box art."},{"author_name":"elbowroom","author_uid":"3590","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:37pm","epoch":1367328720,"text":"Very good entry, I liked the style and the mood of the game. The gameplay was a bit unbalanced and boss battles could use more work (too predictable and easy)."},{"author_name":"rxi","author_uid":"16007","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:43pm","epoch":1367329080,"text":"Loved the box art, I recall seeing it during the 48hours in one of your posts.\r\rVery nostalgic feel to it. I think some of the collision detection was a little off (when the boss is firing at you for example) though this feels like it added to ghetto feeling of playing old Atari 2600 games."},{"author_name":"robotality","author_uid":"22760","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 2:56pm","epoch":1367419860,"text":"you captured the atari feeling really wonderful -> Childhood memories. And damn it was hard. :D overall great game."},{"author_name":"jacklehamster","author_uid":"20841","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 4:25pm","epoch":1367425200,"text":"Perhaps for your next game, one thing you should know is that CTRL+ARROW on a Macbook is a shortcut that switches to a different screen. So yeah, I kept running into that when playing this game."},{"author_name":"Ret44","author_uid":"3126","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 8:51pm","epoch":1367441160,"text":"@jacklehamster - Thanks, good to know about that. I've added additional fire button under the 'Z' key."},{"author_name":"vilya","author_uid":"10456","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 10:21pm","epoch":1367446560,"text":"How are you supposed to start the game? Space didn't work, nor enter. I eventually tried mashing every button on the keyboard and one of them started it, but I've no idea which. Likewise for firing. I'm a bit puzzled..."},{"author_name":"Waynetron","author_uid":"8591","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 10:21pm","epoch":1367446560,"text":"Took me a while to find the button that starts it! Turns out it was ctrl. Also CTRL-ARROW is not very good on the mac. Keeps activating the switch screen stuff."},{"author_name":"berareu","author_uid":"15244","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 10:00am","epoch":1367574900,"text":"Nice retro game! I really liked that to kill the boss you have to destroy him pixel by pixel...very cool!"},{"author_name":"PabloAlexandre31","author_uid":"10620","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 8:44pm","epoch":1367699940,"text":"Good Job!"},{"author_name":"onzephyr","author_uid":"5478","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1367700060,"text":"matched the atari esthetic well. bonus points for the great box art."},{"author_name":"MinionStudios","author_uid":"22273","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 3:35pm","epoch":1367854200,"text":"Freakin Space skull. Nice work on this. almost an Atari Classic!"},{"author_name":"paulopn","author_uid":"21622","time":"May 9, 2013 @ 5:32pm","epoch":1368120420,"text":"Awesome work on the boxart and on getting the Atari "feeling". It was a bit imbalanced, though...A bit too hard during the stage and too easy during the boss. Also, for some reason, the ship goes down a level when you enter the boss fight.\rFun =D"},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 6:48pm","epoch":1368297780,"text":"Loved the retro feel of the game. Fits the theme really well."},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 4:23am","epoch":1368332280,"text":"cool game -- throw back to old games -- even the sound effect -- great!"},{"author_name":"swizzcheez","author_uid":"16129","time":"May 14, 2013 @ 4:42pm","epoch":1368549420,"text":"A spectacular use of the theme. Felt very Atari."},{"author_name":"GarethIW","author_uid":"20364","time":"May 15, 2013 @ 1:43pm","epoch":1368625080,"text":"Extremely retro in-game and on the boxart! I found the green ships to have too high a rate of fire though. Either that or I suck."},{"author_name":"alts","author_uid":"18267","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 6:25am","epoch":1369030800,"text":"Just a note, respawning doesn't seem to work in Firefox. Switched to Chrome and it worked. Might want to look into that."},{"author_name":"Jesse111","author_uid":"22856","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 10:26pm","epoch":1369088460,"text":"I love the attention to classic games.\rWas the destructible boss a Gorf reference?\rIs Dickard an AVGN reference?\rGood job!\rSeemed like there might have been a bit of a bug with the powerups - My ship would randomly revert to a single ship and then be unable to become a double or triple ship again."}],"images":["ld26\/3126-28a9f894421b1d16424d9cfc5438457c.jpg","ld26\/3126-a0be18f38ba7934b9ab80617cbc16022.jpg","ld26\/3126-025090b7b27c906a37b01be6149fdaad.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/blue-brick.com\/LD26\/bsieczka\/index.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/blue-brick.com\/LD26\/bsieczka\/LDGame.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"25871","g_author":"3126","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"25901","g_title":"Rex Galaxy and the SpaceSkull","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"721","g_commentcount":"26","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/3126-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/3126-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/3126-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Controls: Arrow Keys - movement, Ctrl \/ Z - shooting. Shoot to start the game.\r\n\r\n\r\nRex Galaxy and the SpaceSkull is remake of nonexistent game for a nonexistent game console based of nonexistent action science-fiction comedy adventure political thiller blockbuster. The movie tells the story about Rex Galaxy - defender of the stars. His mentor, Dickard sends him to the outer systems to fight with SpaceSkull, the evil skull from outer space. Together with his companion Loia Mergana, and his faithful robot Fender, he travels through time and space to find his destiny. This game recreates the climatic finale, when Rex flies through asteroid belt to face the SpaceSkull. \r\n\r\nBig thx to guys from Blue-Brick for organizing live jam in their studio, an providing professional equipment and hosting. Also great thanks to anyone who attended on Ludum Dare 26 Lodz!<\/p>","title":"Rex Galaxy and the SpaceSkull"}