ON TOP OF YOUR DONATION SUPPORT, THIS GAME ALSO USES A WEB MONETIZATION REV MODEL. If you have services s.a. Coil Setup, THANK YOU!

YOUR SUPPORT IS MUCH NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! It's all I've got to keep me going and making games for your enjoyment!

"Space, cold ruthless space..."

CONTROLS:

- DOUBLE CLICK to shoot the "BIG LAZOR". Quickly clear out patches of baddies and bullets with this escape nasty situations game mechanic. I'm amazed to see people still not using the Big Lazors when they have charges active!!!

- Use your MOUSE or any other pointing device to move.

- CLICK AND HOLD to shoot the main weapon, missiles also shoot periodically and can be used to clear enemy bullets.

The awesome music is by "YouFulca", check out his work here on itch.io, it's amazing... scratch that, MIND BLOWING, arm hair raising!

YOUFULCA - AMAZING MUSIC COMPOSER


TIPS:

- If the game dimensions do not fit your liking, try using [ctrl & - or +] key combo to fit your screen. It should fit most laptops with ease.

- Most valuable upgrades! :)  Main gun health, speed, bombs and star (last one) upgrades to quickly reap the rewards.

- Clearing a full wave of enemies gives better star rewards on the last few hit from the same group.

- The "Big Lazor" is effective at clearing large groups of weaklings, useful for earning stars!

- Every time u clear a level boss, on the next run enemies spaw faster and less and the boss will be half health for ez quick traversal. This also means that you're not going to cash in as many stars as well, so play smart!


A bit of story:

EX4CE comes as a successor to the "Shmupnage" game released a while back. It follows the progress of a space cadet named Lancy in her struggle to liberate a Lothian space colony of the imninent space threat: "These things, seem to be nest or boss like controlled bio-organisms, annihilating and assimilating everything in their path."

The Ex4cE are mainly formed from former Freedom Figthers United (FFU) personnel. The main reason for the split being that the FFU are now corporate funded and taking advantage o the threat situation through "Planetary Protection Plans" which are in truth just meant to drawin resources in exchange of rather brief times of security.

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Release date Jul 07, 2020
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Authorcpet
GenreAction
Made withPhaser
Tags2D, Arcade, Bullet Hell, Retro, Shoot 'Em Up, Top down shooter, upgrades
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse
AccessibilityOne button

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I first saw your game on newgrounds. It's a very good shmup, nice job. And you made a good use of Larzes's assets 👍 

It works very well on both my laptop and my smartphone.

Yass and now phaser 3 is even more amazing on mobile ... maybe I'll find the time for a 2nd one but Lazer keeps selling his assets as 1 huge AI image ... it takes a lot to setup meshes or try to cut out individual parts for animation. That's really the only bummer... also if you're also an HTML5 game dev I hole heartedly recommend the phaser editor. Makes boiler plating and setting hit zones so much easier than through code.

Hello,
is it you who is selling this great game on codecanyon.net (see https://codecanyon.net/item/sky-warrior-html5-game/47972280) or a tactful person?

Yeah they absolutely ripped my game and made more money than I did through free to play or hoping for any help with donations lol... well it is how world works, the crooks win.

I think all the games sold by this guy are stolen!
it's really sad to see this :-(

You should report this crook to Envato (https://help.author.envato.com/hc/en-us/requests/new), because your game is sold with the source code and a distribution license... So honest people or honest companies can buy a license and distribute your game thinking they are in compliance with copyright which is not the case...

And maybe you could also sell your game on CodeCanyon (I would definitely be interested) :-)

They asked me to file a DCMA, did my best now it's up to Envato to take action. They got 2 of my games both here on itch.io. The even more bad part is the asset creator I based my work on.

They're basically re-selling his assets too, I paid for my free use fee. But it says clearly in the contract I can't just rework and sell his IP. They're infringing both me and this guy:

https://www.gamedevmarket.net/member/Larzes

Got pretty much all the space shooter assets from Lazers in a recent bundle ... learned a bit of Colyseus for multiplayer, hopefully sometime in the future I can do a nice multiplayer 2 player arcade style.

The problem I consistently face is monetizing my HTML5 work. Perhaps the guy can't steal Unity or if the game has ads in it (which might mean popular arcades will reject it). Animating the assets using Spine takes pretty long, since this needs to be animated with mesh and it's pretty painful. If anyone knows a way to animate static assets with tools like blender I'd be down to learn the skill.

Also help with marketing would be welcome, I do these games in between contracts or w/e I can find. Nowadays HTML5 is pretty much all casino gaming and it's tough cutthroat business in there, impossible dead lines and occasionally the rude lead that gets you fired soon as the game is ready to ship.

Just the world we live in folks, I'm out of work right now, trying to learn the AI ways using DS, NightCafe is awesome, love SDXL and recommend trying it out if you have the gear.

LoL soon as I typed some rather harsh words in the feedback the game was taken down. Maybe it was just timing on their part. 

Can you confirm the item is down? I just want to make sure I am not blocked to see it or something like that.

Oh really sad to see this, i checked  your game taken down. i did not see game there.

I think you should try with Unity WebGl or Godot they are amazing game engines and secure. I would like to see your new AI games 

The ABSOLUTE BEST shoot 'em up that ive ever played. 11/10 game right here.

Thanks for the praise, I know a good number of high quality Japanese shmups I'd love to match some days. This game is just a hobby result nowhere as good, but yeah it tries hard.

Im not a fan of the genre but this is an amazing game. even though there are better games i think you will go far

Awesome game, just a question: how many bosses are there?

I remember a burnout hit me after the 4th.

I have art for more but the time and effort put into is just not justified any longer. Maybe, if I can get more deals from prospects or ppl that can market the game properly it might make sense. I don't have much experience with monetizing, it is what kills my personal game dev. Peple play and support what they want more of. There's plenty of content out there! :)

Well I know a few people who love shoot 'em ups, so I'll tell them!

@cpet is there a way i can shoot an email to you

One of the best shmups I've ever played,

Would recommend to anyone who's a fan of the genre.

:D

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Saw your game on Newgrounds. Very good job, my friend. Keep up the good work!

tyvm for the rating, every bit helps!

Updated new version to fit under larger than intended iFrames

There's still a known bug about not being able to shut the music off, just keep toggling it once in game ... but seriously who would turn off such incredibly engaging music! :)