Reviews - Zuurix

Very impressive for a first game!
I'm not a fan of arcade games, but this one kept me playing.

Pros:

10/10 Music.
10/10 Sound effects.
10/10 Graphics.
10/10 Presentation.
10/10 Variety.
10/10 Concept.
etc.
Several really cool weapons. E.g.: Target lock, amplifier.

Cons:

Most of the weapons are really bad and will kill you. E.g.: Lasher.
It's painful to switch to the white weapon after getting something good.

Verdict:

6/10 with the potential to be at least 8/10 if weapons are fixed.

Suggestions:

1) Picking up a new gun should kill ALL enemies and give you at least few seconds to understand how the gun works. I died even with good weapons because I couldn't instantly understand what it does/I was surrounded by enemies.

2) Would be cool to have an extra health.

Let me tell you my story about how GameMaker has turned me into indie game developer.

About 10 years ago I've began to play games.
Ever since, I've wanted to create my own games.
I've been painting game interfaces in MS paint for years, pretending to be game developer.

3 years ago, I've decided that it's time to stop pretending and create real game.
It was nightmare.
I've downloaded many large programs without any idea how to use them, how to create game with them.
It was just too hard to start with almost no knowledge.

I've learned programming basics from the Codeacademy.com and I was able to write very simple programs.
I had to learn programming myself, because in the school I didn't got any useful programming knowledge.

So, I tried to make game, downloaded many different compilers, they didn't work and I almost gave up.
But then I found GameMaker!

I've downloaded it, completed few simple tutorials and I was already able to make simple games!

Making games with GameMaker was so much fun, that I've almost stopped playing games.

My first RPG was garbage.

My second game, odd shoot-em-up with RPG elements was also pretty bad, but better. Much better.

My third game was massive RPG, which was bad only because it had awful graphics.
Well, okay, there were other awful things...
But when I finished making it, I realized that nothing can stop me, that I can create anything I want!

And now I'm making my fourth game. I'm working on it for year now and it's not even half done.
Since I realized I can make great game with GameMaker, I'm trying to do it and I'm feeling that I'm getting close.
This is my story so far and it's really not over!

I don't know what will happen in future, but I hope that one day, my games, made with GameMaker, will stand proudly next to other great games here in Steam!

It's amazing experience watching your skills grow, watching your games become better and better...
So, if you ever wanted to create your own game and didn't yet, grab GameMaker and do it!

PS.: Sorry for bad English.

PPS.: My fourth and best game: Store.steampowered.com

If you like tower defense games, you will probably like this one!
But it's not exactly a tower defense game!

It's combination of a tower defense, RTS and something called orbital shooter.

Tower defense?
You just build towers in the key places.

RTS?
Send your units to take over structures and defend them... Again, seems simple.

Orbital shooter?
Click on the map and you'll shoot there. It takes some time for projectiles to hit, so you need to aim keeping in mind movement speed and direction of the enemies.

When these three simple elements are put together, game becomes really interesting!

- In classic tower defense game:

You would build/upgrade towers and watch enemies getting killed by them.

- In this game:

You will be shooting enemies from orbit and praying to get enough resources to build tower before you will get overwhelmed. With tower placed, you can then get a more resources, because you can send your units to gather them.

Your units will move and you will try to keep enemies away from them. With air strikes. Don't hit your units! Meanwhile enemies will also move towards your base... Or bases in some maps. And control points. God help you if your control points gets re-corrupted by enemies! Then you will have less towers, with less towers enemies will overwhelm you, taking away your databases, your resources and finally... It will be the end!

There's also good guys moving with enemies, DO NOT SHOOT THEM! You will be like: Oh no, my control point is attacked by yellow triangles! NUKE EVERYTHI- Oh ♥♥♥♥, there's good guys! Need to switch to smaller gun.

While you will be slowly picking yellow triangles one by one with small gun, evil giant yellow triangle will approach your base...
But hopefully there's red power up near your base, so you will shoot it, it will explode and probably you'll prevail. Too bad you accidentally hit the good guys and they died anyway.

BUT WAIT! While you were fighting Bill Cipher, your database got re-corrupted and it no longer produces delicious blue squares. Which are, like, super important, because without them you can't build towers and launch air strikes.

And that's only if you aren't crippled by challenges! Sometimes you aren't allowed to use big guns, sometimes you need to not lose a single unit, sometimes...

Still reading? Go buy and see it for yourself.