Разработчик: MadeOfDinosaurs
Описание
Starfighter Neon is a small, fun, re-playable arcade style space shooter where the goal is to beat your best scores (and your friends), unlocking extra ships as you go.
- It doesn't have an epic settings, huge boss battles or an emotional story line.
- It does have bite size sessions of laser blasting, alien dodging, space ship action!
You've been dropped into enemy space. Weave your Starfighter between alien spaceships, lasers, asteroids and bombs destroying as many as you can and collecting valuable coins and powerups as you go.
- If you fly off one side of the screen, you appear back on the other side, use this to escape enemies and surprise others!
- You have 3 lives each game.
- Collecting pickups will boost your weapons for a short while.
- There are Green, Blue and Yellow weapons to collect, alongside the default blaster, each available as 'normal' or 'gold' strength. The Yellow weapons are unique to each Starfighter.
- Collect coins to unlock extra Starfighters in the Ship Shop that all fly in different ways, and each have a unique powerup.
- Collect the SmartBomb pickup to wipe out the entire screen of enemies!
- Try Jump-in Mode - no gradual build up, drops your straight into the action.
Easy to play, just point and fire, this isn't a twin stick shooter. Keyboard and Gamepads both supported.
With the v1.4 update - there's now also a 'turn and go' control scheme, why not give it a go?
With the v1.1 update - there is actually a twin stick shooter mode, if that's your thing - but you can totally stick to playing the simpler original game if you prefer.
- Infinite game play, it only stops when you lose all your lives.
- Steam achievements and leaderboard.
- Steam cloud support.
- WASD / Cursors to Move.
- Space / Enter to Fire.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP SP2 +
- Processor: 1.4Ghz Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB +
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- Sound Card: Sure, why not. All the sfx were made with the awesome Bfxr tool.
- Additional Notes: The game should not be overly resource hungry (tested on a 2010 MacBook Air running Windows 10), if you have a frame rate issue, try lowering the resolution from the settings menu.
Mac
- OS: OS X 10.9+
- Processor: 1.4Ghz Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB +
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- Sound Card: Sure, why not. All the sfx were made with the awesome Bfxr tool.
- Additional Notes: The game should not be overly resource hungry (tested on a 2010 MacBook Air), if you have a frame rate issue, try lowering the resolution from the settings menu.
Отзывы пользователей
Starfighter Neon is an unabashed, lazy ripoff of games such Asteroids/"SpaceWar!" (Copyright Atari/Steve Russell respectively, 1980/1962 respectively). Many lazy "amateur" developers don't pay attention to their obligations under copyright law, and often steal the ideas of actual, real game developers without credit, such as the "developer" here has done. At this stage no legal action has been taken by Atari/Steve Russell respectively against the "developer" here, but it's never off the table, as previous copyright law cases have shown.
Putting aside the unethical intellectual bankruptcy of stealing someone else's game concept for profit, this is also breaking that unwritten law of stealing other people's game ideas... you should at least try to do better than the game you're ripping off. Starfighter Neon is considerably worse than Asteroids/"SpaceWar!". You can play Star Control 2 for free, and that's way superior to any of those games, and a million times better than this trashware. The developer expects you to pay them money for this, by the way.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
The graphics here are some of the worst, laziest attempt at video game "art" I've ever seen. It's hard to suggest this game even has graphics. It's just untextured, basic pixel blocks and blobs, the kind that an infant child might be able to create in 5 minutes on MS Paint. It's clear the developer didn't even try to produce any real graphics for the game and just phoned it in. It's unclear why such a lazy approach was taken, whether it may be caused by lack of talent, budget, or motivation to do their job properly. It also doesn't matter... what matters is that this has resulted in a game with zero visual appeal for gamers. It's an immediate failure on that measure alone.
While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals.
The controls can't be customised (although you can flip between a couple of control schemas, all bad), which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
Starfighter Neon is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | MadeOfDinosaurs |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 24.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 50% положительных (2) |