Epilepsy 2014

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#1

Disclaimer:

This game involves flashy lights, intense 8-bit music, and intense screen shaking. Play at your own risk! Name was chosen for comedic reasons. No discrimination of any kind was meant.

Description:

Epilepsy is an arcade shooter much like Zombie Nauts, but with a twist. The better you are, the trippier it gets!

Controls:

Arrow keys to move.

Space to shoot.

This game is my toy project. Even though it says finished/stable, the game will never be finished. I will consantly be making the game trippier and more intense as I go along!

Downloads:
Itch.io (Windows, Mac, Linux)
GameJolt.com (Windows, Mac, Linux)

#2

517 mb?? What?

#3

I’m working on separating them based on operating systems. Don’t worry!

#4

That’s still over 100 mb per OS 0.0

#5

Fixed! now onmly 86mb

#6

That’s still insanely huge for such a small game 0.0

#7

Don’t use .wav’s for music, use ogg’s, preferably. 86Mb is really way too much.
~88Mb (unpacked) just for music is insane unless you have an extensive soundtrack or something, but for 2 files? Not so great.
I believe TinySound can stream .ogg’s from the disk, so that should work fine.

#8

My guess is the music? Unless he’s using a ton of random huge libraries.
EDIT: ah, yeah, .wav files would do it.

OP:
Scored 252! I am awesome! :stuck_out_tongue: I have to admit, that was more fun than I expected, probably just because the music somehow fits the craziness of it all. My suggestion, somehow reward the player for firing less. I noticed that it really boiled down to me spamming fire until my weapon overheated, then spamming it again. I didn’t really get rewarded for “carefully shooting”. If I was supposed to, the reward wasn’t noticeable.

Still, oddly fun game. :stuck_out_tongue:

#9

I was originally going to use TinySound but I never got it working. Could someone lead me to a tutorial?

Ray: What do you use for SixtyGig?

#10

Right now? Nothing yet, my game has no sound yet. :smiley:

But I plan to use JOrbis.
http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/

#11

Ray respond to my PM I want to talk about some tile based stuff in slick.

#12

Really nice game!
Where did you get / How did you make the music?