alien attak
...but better than hypothermia
 
   
Your life re-lived
They'll be waiting to cheer
 

"If you can make your day feel insignificant because you beat a level on a game, there's something really special in whatever you're doing…"
NBCL

 

"Its aliens, and attacking" (Koworld)

I've been visited by a game idea too. Sarah woke me up this morning at 6:00 but then I fell asleep again. And you know that is the time where you tend to dream quite lucidly? Well I did, and what I dreamed of was this:

You have rows of baddies, I'm calling them 'aliens' for the sake of the design doco. These rows move from one side of the screen to the other, when they get to the other all the lines of 'aliens' drop down one. They also get a bit faster. They also drop 'missiles' down. If the lines of 'aliens' eventually reach the bottom of the screen then you are dead.

But there's a twist. You, who I like to refer to as 'player 1' have a sort of movable gun thing that you can move horizontally across the screen. Your gun thing stays on the very bottom line of the screen. You can shoot 'missiles' out of the gun. If a 'missile' hits an 'alien' then that alien disappears and you also get some points for having 'shot' that 'alien'. Likewise, if one of the 'aliens' 'missiles' 'hits' your 'gun' then you lose a 'life'. You start with 'three lives'.

There's another twist, and this is the genius part, on a line above your 'gun' but below the 'aliens' are some solid 'bases'. You can hide under these so called 'bases'. But, aha, and here's the final twist, these 'bases' are eroded by your 'missiles' and by the 'aliens' missiles. So you can't hide forever.

Names

fflip suggested:
'Base Violators'

Sickboy suggested:
'Attack Of The Horizontally Arranged, Missile-Dropping Motherfuckers'?
'The Gradually Descending Freak Boys'?
'Geometrically Pleasing, Vertical Armageddon Blitzkrieg From Mars'?
'Screen Test With Michael Rodd'?
'Spunky Funeral'?


       

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