+KaeruYojimbo Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 (edited) 'Twas the night before Christmas and all 'round the earthHumans were celebrating Jesus' birthThey cheered and they sang and they rang festive bellsSo loudly it reached were Galactopus dwellsThere's no Christmas spirit in the cold airless voidAnd the cephalopod was becoming annoyedHe crossed the vast distance to earth in a hurryAnd began his assault with unparalleled furyOctonium bombs wrapped up like presentsDropped from the sky to make things unpleasantOur defenses were holding but only just barelyAs Galactopus pummeled our force field unfairlySo we sent up a spaceship to chase him awayAnd maybe, just maybe, save Christmas day The back story: I started this a couple of years ago but stopped working on it as the concept evolved into Ms. Galactopus. I dug it out the other day and started fiddling around with it, thinking that maybe finishing this would help inspire me to actually finish Ms. Galactopus. I guess we'll see if that happens.Galactopus flies across the sky dropping his octonium "presents." Shoot them before they hit the force field. Every bomb that hits the force field weakens it a little. If a bomb gets through after the force field is gone, Christmas is ruined and the game is over. I ended up bumping this game up from 2k to 4k so there's a lot of ROM left. I don't think I'll add anything to the gameplay. Instead I'll use that space to stuff in as many Easter eggs as I can think of.galactxmas.bin Edited December 7, 2018 by KaeruYojimbo 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian O Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 I hope these presents came with gift receipts! Anyway, it's cute and fun. The only thing I thought as I was playing it is that it would be good if the force field changed color or brightness when it was hit to show the damage before it vanishes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 The only thing I thought as I was playing it is that it would be good if the force field changed color or brightness when it was hit to show the damage before it vanishes. It should be becoming a paler shade of blue with every hit. Too subtle maybe? I'll take another look at it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TrekMD Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 That's great! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swami Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Thanks! That's Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 It should be becoming a paler shade of blue with every hit. Too subtle maybe? I'll take another look at it. It looks like COLUPF is actually getting incremented instead of decremented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) We'll be playing A Very Galctopus Christmas on the ZeroPage Homebrew stream tonight on Twitch at 6PM PT/9PM ET! Hope everyone can tune in to watch us play!Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ UPDATE! Link to VIDEO: Edited December 21, 2018 by cimmerian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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