Hey, everyone. I find myself in a bit of a peculiar situation. I've found a game I really like, yet I have to add a proviso to any recommendation. So let's get started. The game is Gunner Galaxies. It is free on the app store and it's a load of fun. Here is the thing I want to make clear. The game has the latest of the marketer ploys called in-app purchases. This is where you have the 'opportunity' to buy weapons or power-ups or gold while you're playing the game. In this case you can buy 'Galactic Credits' at a price from 99 cents to $9.99. In a case like this I'm confused about what to "buy" and what not to buy. I think there is some free stuff you can earn for your ship etc. just by blowing stuff up but I won't get it because I don't know if it will cost me. Apple just had a big hassle with the parents of little kids who had bought a bunch of stuff on a Smurfs game, yet they allow this stuff. Here's my idea. Just charge a decent amount for your game. All in-app purchases should be forbidden by Apple. If you want to make it free and put ads on it, fine. If Apple doesn't get a hold on this stuff it may ruin a great app store.
Okay, now I'll kick the soap box aside and talk about the game. Just be careful what you touch on the screen, I guess.
This is like an arcade game, in a way. I like it because it's nice and simple, yet it varies in the things coming at you. There are a lot of changes so it doesn't get monotonous. I love Mini-Gore but they could do so much more with that game. They should have a lot of different monsters and other fun stuff. But I digress again.
You are a chicken flying through outer space in a space ship. It shows the chicken sitting behind the turret of a gun and you use one finger to turn the turret and the other hand is used to fire projectiles from the gun. You are trying to blast all these asteroids (how can athletes stand to use those?) before they collide with your ship and destroy you. It gets intense at times. I love the variety of it. You have stuff that comes out of the rocks when you hit them. Some are good, some are bad. One causes your cannon to reverse which is confusing and can get you blown up. Another gives you a super shield. Another makes your bullets turn into eggs. Yeah, eggs. There is a cool one that gives you a cannon with three barrels which is serious firepower. Then there are power bursts and pulse rays and an antigrav effect that makes the rocks go away from you rather than toward you.
To be honest, my favorite thing about this game is that I can play it without getting stuck on a tough place like, say, Nova 2.
I wish they had just charged a few bucks for it. They would have made plenty, believe me. It's that good a game. It has good crisp graphics, by the way. Come to think of it, it's HD.
From the authors green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
Okay, now I'll kick the soap box aside and talk about the game. Just be careful what you touch on the screen, I guess.
This is like an arcade game, in a way. I like it because it's nice and simple, yet it varies in the things coming at you. There are a lot of changes so it doesn't get monotonous. I love Mini-Gore but they could do so much more with that game. They should have a lot of different monsters and other fun stuff. But I digress again.
You are a chicken flying through outer space in a space ship. It shows the chicken sitting behind the turret of a gun and you use one finger to turn the turret and the other hand is used to fire projectiles from the gun. You are trying to blast all these asteroids (how can athletes stand to use those?) before they collide with your ship and destroy you. It gets intense at times. I love the variety of it. You have stuff that comes out of the rocks when you hit them. Some are good, some are bad. One causes your cannon to reverse which is confusing and can get you blown up. Another gives you a super shield. Another makes your bullets turn into eggs. Yeah, eggs. There is a cool one that gives you a cannon with three barrels which is serious firepower. Then there are power bursts and pulse rays and an antigrav effect that makes the rocks go away from you rather than toward you.
To be honest, my favorite thing about this game is that I can play it without getting stuck on a tough place like, say, Nova 2.
I wish they had just charged a few bucks for it. They would have made plenty, believe me. It's that good a game. It has good crisp graphics, by the way. Come to think of it, it's HD.
From the authors green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
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