CandyCane

This is a game I made for the last Shmup-Dev shootemup contest. It tied for 11th place. Although I made it a while ago, I never took the time to post about it here until now.

You are the candy cane, and you must kill all of the other Christmas objects to proceed to the next level. Use WASD to move, and click to fire in the direction of the mouse. Gather the presents that appear on the screen to get upgrades.




All feedback is welcome.

Edit: Forgot the download link!
http://www.nuloen.com/hosted/CandyCaneShmup.rar

Looks like fun. Great art style.

11th? blimey, what were the 10 before it like?

Love the style, it's a shame that when you run out of lives you go back to level 1 though, the final level is well tough!

Thanks!

There were a lot of really good games in the competition. If you're a shoot-em-up fan, you can find them all at http://www.shmup-dev.com/af2k7/documents/28.html

Raz: A few others have mentioned the same thing, and it was definitely something I should have thought about when I was making the game. If I ever decide to go back and fix it up, I'll make it so that you only start a few levels back.

Hehe once you beat the game once, it's much much easier, still just as fun though. :)

Wow just by looking at the screenshots most of the other entries look fantastic too