Topic: Echoes - Awesome Asteroids meets Geometry Wars game

[idolminds]

Echoes

I've been trying all sorts of GeoWars clones and any game that can use my controller. So I found this. Its friggin' awesome. Good sound, nice music, challenging. It ramps up pretty quickly. This isnt one hit to your ship and you die, your ship has health. Theres a little hud for it...and you'll never be able to take your eyes of the screen to see it. Luckily they also included a ring around your ship. When its large and green, you're good. When its small and red, you're almost dead. You only get one life from what I can tell. Dont worry, there are health pickups that drop.

Its pretty "pure" from a gameplay perspective. Fly around, shoot everything, get the high score. The sounds add so much...its like fireworks going off. Definitely try it out if you even kinda like GeoWars.

[iPPi]

In somewhat related news, 1.4 million high score in Geometry Wars.  Woot.

Anyway, this looks pretty cool.

[Cobra951]

It seems to be a piece of shit, technically.  I couldn't get the game to start.  I mean, it starts, and I can move all over the place, but nothing else happens.  Nothing attacks me, and I can't shoot with anything I could think of pressing.  (Should be the mouse, but I tried lots of keys too.  I alt-tabbed out to read some more about it, but it would not let me move the mouse cursor out of the top-left corner on the desktop.  So I alt-tabbed back in, and it crashed out with an error.

Edit:  Tried it on the other PC.  Same behavior.  My guess is that the mouse/KB control is broken, maybe because it can't find a joypad.  It complains about no recognized joypad in red text.  It's also not aspect-ratio aware, so it's squashed-looking too.  I think I'll pass until next revision.