Like a lot of Ohkubo's games, your only real enemy is the clock, and taking damage inflicts a time penalty. The better you play, the longer you can play, etc. You move by moving the mouse, and "fire" by clicking the left mouse button. It's all very straight-forward. It's also a pretty elegant design. The graphics are simple but impressive. The sound is minimalistic. If you dig old-school shooters, you should definitely check it out. Besides, how many games these days can easily be measured in kilobytes? But if RayHound is a little too much for you, Warning Forever (farther down on Ohkubo's page) may be right up your alley. If I had to choose between them, I'd probably go with WF myself. But the more I play RayHound the more I understand how to be good at it. And it just may become my new favorite. It's The Meers
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I'm sure you've seen the commercial... There's this little girl and an elephant standing in a football stadium, and the girl's talking to an HVAC installer about Texas Instruments' newest version of their Digital Light Projection technology (now featured in an HDTV near you). Every time I see it, I can't help but think that out of all the little girls that auditioned for that part, why did they have to go with the one that can't pronounce "mirrors?" Well you know what else is all about the meers? RayHound. Yeah, that actually was the best segue that I could come up with. Anyway, RayHound is a fantastic top-down shooter from Hikoza Ohkubo. Except that, you aren't actually capable of shooting anything... You're piloting this ship that is being attacked by turrets that teleport into place and then remain fixed, only able to rotate about that fixed point in space. And as you're fired upon, you use the ship's interesting ability to sort of bend space, and redirect any nearby fire back at the turrets. Eventually, you are dodging into and out of fire, practically seeing everything at once - you might say it gets pretty crazy. Here's another 1000 words that may give you a better idea of how it all works. Like a lot of Ohkubo's games, your only real enemy is the clock, and taking damage inflicts a time penalty. The better you play, the longer you can play, etc. You move by moving the mouse, and "fire" by clicking the left mouse button. It's all very straight-forward. It's also a pretty elegant design. The graphics are simple but impressive. The sound is minimalistic. If you dig old-school shooters, you should definitely check it out. Besides, how many games these days can easily be measured in kilobytes? But if RayHound is a little too much for you, Warning Forever (farther down on Ohkubo's page) may be right up your alley. If I had to choose between them, I'd probably go with WF myself. But the more I play RayHound the more I understand how to be good at it. And it just may become my new favorite.
Like a lot of Ohkubo's games, your only real enemy is the clock, and taking damage inflicts a time penalty. The better you play, the longer you can play, etc. You move by moving the mouse, and "fire" by clicking the left mouse button. It's all very straight-forward. It's also a pretty elegant design. The graphics are simple but impressive. The sound is minimalistic. If you dig old-school shooters, you should definitely check it out. Besides, how many games these days can easily be measured in kilobytes? But if RayHound is a little too much for you, Warning Forever (farther down on Ohkubo's page) may be right up your alley. If I had to choose between them, I'd probably go with WF myself. But the more I play RayHound the more I understand how to be good at it. And it just may become my new favorite.