Games Competition 2009 - Round 5 - Catalypse

shteev · Last edited by shteev on Sat May 30, 2009 8:03 pm; edited 2 times in total

Round 5 - Catalypse

RULES

Round 5 starts 11th of May and will end 23:59 GMT, 31st of May

Post screenshots in this thread.

Please ensure that you own a legal copy of this game to compete.

Don't cheat! - We know where you live!!!

GAME INFO & COMMENTS

Catalypse@Lemon64

QUESTIONS

Please check the Lemon Games Compo FAQ

ROUND 4 SCORETABLE
542,400 - loflo
340,300 - Apollyon
259,900 - Roger Frames
160,200 - Jolly_Roger
145,100 - Endurion
141,900 - merman
132,300 - Mr L
130,200 - Super Ninja!
114,500 - dynamite
109,700 - slobulus
104,500 - shteev
068,700 - Thunderer
045,700 - zaraza
041,500 - sixstringmonk
037,500 - TommyE
034,400 - johncl
032,600 - jt-3d

OVERALL STANDINGS

Are here!

EXTRAS

Check out the Games Competition at Lemon64's sister site, Lemon Amiga!

The Scorelord keeps a watchful eye on the top c64 scores on the net here.
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zaraza · Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 9:46 pm Post subject:

One question.
Are screenshots (literaly screenshots) , from TV also valid?
I'm planning to play this on big screen Smile

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dynamite · Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject:

Screenshots from a regular TV are fine. We've had quite a few people submit scores done on a real c64.
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dynamite · Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 11:51 pm Post subject:

Neat game this - though I'm using the version off gb64.com and the scores on the high table are quite high compared to what I'm scoring. Is there a version that has a high score reset?
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jt-3d · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:52 am Post subject:

I'm using the +5 one from arnold. Highscore is either zero or really, really easy to beat. I didn't notice but I got the high score.

So let me just set the last place score right now and get it over with. This one is not my kind of game. 25300

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Apollyon · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 11:54 am Post subject:

We all wanted Armalyte with music and this is what we got. Confused

90.600 (level 2)

jt-3d · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 4:57 pm Post subject:

Apollyon wrote:

We all wanted Armalyte with music and this is what we got. Confused

Indeed. I'm glad you saved me the trouble of figuring out which game this was a ripoff of. Smile

It's sure been a long time since that compo.
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Endurion · Lemon64 Game Champion Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 861

Interesting. Sometimes it feels like the collision detection is not to the players favour Smile

The big numbers look like Hawkeye's.

43400

shteev · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 6:12 pm Post subject:

What does 'Guns On/Off' on the title screen mean?
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shteev · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:12 pm Post subject:

44,700

SPOILER - Don't sit in front of that eye at the end of level 1 or it fires out and hits you square in the face. The twat.
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Apollyon · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject:

shteev wrote:

What does 'Guns On/Off' on the title screen mean?

According to the manual it turns enemy cannons' fire on/off.

The first boss is a pushover if you have anything shooting diagonally...

EDIT: Yep, you can indeed turn off enemy fire. Good for training, not in the spirit of the compo, right?

dynamite · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 1:01 am Post subject:

Oki doke, had a quick bash and made it to the second level:

84,600

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zaraza · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 6:12 am Post subject:

Hm....i got it on GB64.....but last highscore is ~140 000, and it looks like there is no option for rest highscores....
Any ideas?
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Apollyon · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 8:51 am Post subject:

zaraza wrote:

Hm....i got it on GB64.....but last highscore is ~140 000, and it looks like there is no option for rest highscores....
Any ideas?

Use the version from Arnold that jt-3d linked to above.

zaraza · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 10:23 am Post subject:

Ok, i missed dynamites post on same issue.
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merman · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 3:20 pm Post subject:

121800

(Was having problems using "Add image to post")
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zaraza · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 4:21 pm Post subject:

Not much, but i'm trying Smile

45700

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Endurion · Lemon64 Game Champion Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 861

The decision to have some enemies take more shots leaves a bad aftertaste. It sometimes feels as if your shots just don't damage them.

75100

Mr L · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 7:47 pm Post subject:

Level 3 and a final score of 132300 from me.

I can't face playing another game of it. It's so well programmed that it's a real shame the game design lets it down. It's generally dull to play and must have the most boring boss fights in the history of videogaming. Razz

shteev · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 1:09 am Post subject:

Endurion wrote:

The decision to have some enemies take more shots leaves a bad aftertaste. It sometimes feels as if your shots just don't damage them.

Yeah, they could at least go 'ow', or something. I find it easier to play this game by staying out of everything's way and just being pleasantly surprised if a hail of bullets happens to bring it down.
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Endurion · Lemon64 Game Champion Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 861

Somebody needs to hack into it and change the paths. You basically die because some of the enemy paths are designed to outright push you into walls.

90700

dynamite · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 9:07 pm Post subject:

Another go tonight:

114,500

It's not actually that difficult, is it? I don't get the sense of threat I do off games like Armalyte, Delta or IO. Nicely programmed, but the bosses are a bit easy. Have yet to get to the end of level 3 as of yet.
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Thunderer · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 12:54 am Post subject:

Let me come back to the compo with a provisional score of 44100.

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Endurion · Lemon64 Game Champion Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 861

Incredible, the bosses are pretty boring. Managed to get to level 3. How did they manage to get a very great engine which such bland design.

137800

Thunderer · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:47 pm Post subject:

Slight improvement as I managed to defeat the Level 1 boss.

68,700

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