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QANAT - 0.5

A shoot-em-up inspired by the classic Galaxians game. Repel waves of invaders using your gun turret. Manage the temperature of the turret to avoid overheating.



Paul Paterson
(paulpaterson)

A shoot-em-up inspired by the classic Galaxians game. Repel waves of invaders using your gun turret. Manage the temperature of the turret to avoid overheating.

Use LEFT, RIGHT and SPACE keys to move the turret. ESC quits the game.

Version 0.6 now includes an online-high score table so you can compete against others online to get the highest score!

This is an early release of my general online-high score system that I am testing in a limited form here. If all goes well with this test then I will release this as a standalone component.

If you are interested in testing the system on your game then let me know.

The new online high score table, mothership and bomber aliens

Changes

What's New in 0.5

 

  • Removed restriction on ammo 
  • Changed the impact of overheating. Now the gun fires slower bullets which sometimes fragment 
  • Added sound and visual cue when extra life is gained 
  • Added animation when the player ship is destroyed 
  • Fixed bug where sounds might not play (too few pygame channels used) Tweaked alien motion

What's New in 0.4

  • Aliens now crash to earth after being shot. Crashing aliens will destroy your ship.
  • Updated ship icon. Ship changes appearance when the gun is too hot.
  • Can run the game in full screen mode (run with "python qanat.py -F").
  • Fixed bug when starting the game. Bombs dropped during the intro could sometimes kill you.

 

 

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Links

Home Page
http://perpetualpyramid.com/drupal/?q=qanat_game
Source
http://perpetualpyramid.com/drupal/qanat_game

Releases

QANAT 0.1 — 10 Nov, 2011

QANAT 0.5 — 17 Feb, 2012

QANAT 0.2 — 11 Nov, 2011

QANAT 0.3 — 17 Dec, 2011

QANAT 0.4 — 13 Feb, 2012

QANAT 0.6 — 7 Apr, 2013

QANAT 0.7 — 19 Apr, 2013

Pygame.org account Comments

  • mid_kid 2012-06-07 00:48

    awesome!!

  • payload 2012-06-17 17:01

    thanks for the nice gameplay video
    i am looking into the code later, i am interested :)

  • Antony Semonella 2012-08-09 15:43

    Excellent game! I wondered, is there a way to pause the game?

  • Space Max 2013-04-07 20:56

    Awesome and impressive !!! It's a very nice game like Solarwolf. congratulations again.

  • Ian Mallett 2013-04-08 03:31

    This game is superb. I love how falling spaceships can bring down others. The game feels very well-balanced, although I wasn't able to get past about 160,000 fairly. It really needs more levels; the repeats get old after a while.

  • Ian Mallett 2013-04-22 05:08

    In version 0.7, can't get over ~50,000. The stupid orange ships get lower and lower and just crash into you, especially on the mothership level. The purple bombers' shots are also close to unavoidable. Sometimes the ships seem like they can't crash into each other, and once a ship somehow got thrown to infinity, so it couldn't be killed but the level wouldn't end.

  • Sabyching 2013-04-27 02:26

    can you input your name into the web high scores, instead of just number 1-10? Currently i got 8900, but it would be cool if you are within the top 10, you could put your name in it