Attack of the Kraken - Coming (very!) soon! Old-school 2D shooter from Quantum Sheep!

Hey everyone! Hope you're well!

This is the first time I've posted about an upcoming game on Touch Arcade and I'm very excited to introduce to you 'Attack of the Kraken' for iPhone 3GS devices and upwards.

It's an old-school 2D Retro Shooter influenced by classic games such as Attack of the Mutant Camels, Defender and Time Pilot as well as John Wyndham's awesome sci-fi classic novel 'The Kraken Wakes'.

Here are some screenshots:










And here's a short sneak peek YouTube trailer:



Essentially, you have to stop the giant Kraken from advancing by shooting them multiple times!

There are also UFOs to deal with, that perform different functions (Jammers, for instance, disrupt your radar until they're damaged enough).

There are 16 levels in total right now, across seven different environments.

The scoring system is pretty cool I think. Essentially, it's tied to your shields.

At Maximum shields, you get maximum points for each hit.
If your shields are damaged, you get progressively less points for each hit.
A 'Regenerator' UFO kill will put your shields back up to maximum!

Additionally, destroying an enemy while your shields are at Max gets you a 'Perfect Kill' for that enemy.

Each Perfect Kill adds to your research, and a fully researched enemy will make them easier to kill, as well as possibly stopping a certain trait (i.e. the jammer UFOs mentioned before would no longer be able to disrupt your radar).

I think it's a lot of fun, and I hope you guys like it! It'll be available in about a week or so, depending on Apple's review times!

It will have an introductory price of just $.99 for the first few days of release, and I'll get onto making a 'lite' version as soon as the main game is finished!

Thanks for reading, and please feel free to ask any questions - I'll try and pop in and answer them as best I can!

Many thanks!

Quantumsheep

 

Thanks all for the kind words and the interest! Warms the cockles of my sheepy heart!

It's a little more old-school than mini-squadron - think 'Time Pilot' instead

And yes, unfortunately for now it's 3GS upwards. I'm optimising the game as I write (with an awful headache I might add!) but I don't think the minimum spec is going to change at this point! Sorry!

Cheers,

QS

 

@Mantis and NottheVictim (and all other 2G users really!)

Hi guys,

Firstly, let me just say that I'm really amazed people are interested in my little game to the point of being disappointed it won't run on their system! Honestly, I wasn't expecting this. I am deeply humbled.

There's a bunch of stuff I'm hoping to add to the game in future updates, so I'll certainly be revisiting my little world and will look into optimising it more then. Fingers crossed I'll be able to get it to work.

Right now though, it's chug city on anything less than a 3GS There's a hell of a lot of stuff going on in the background that really makes keeping frame rates high difficult!


So 3GS + for now - 'lesser' devices later, if possible!

Cheers,

QS

 

I'll be limiting it to arm7 processor devices I'm afraid.

Sorry.

While I really appreciate your enthusiasm, really bad framerates (to the point of it crashing your ipod) is not something I want other people to experience when playing my game.

I feel awful now but I've had this game in my head for a long time, ever since I read Kraken Wakes and played Attack of the Mutant Camels/Empire Strikes Back.

I've put a lot of love into my silly little game, and I really want people to experience it the way it's meant to be experienced!

Your comments have opened my eyes to how important older devices are though, so thank you for that!

QS

 

Thank you for saying that. The graphics were done by ian at debug-design. He's a wonderful chap! I said 'I need an island' - he gave me the island from LOST

We've put in a few other surprises too, which you should spot if you're a sci-fi nut like me

You'll have a more powerful machine than me! I'm stuck on 3GS till next year!

The game is actually supposed to go to Apple on Sunday - I have tomorrow to finalise, optimise and polish stuff up, and the whole of Sunday to bughunt and then fix the bugs I've hunted!

Well, that's the plan anyway. In my experience, these things always take longer than you think. But fingers crossed, eh?

Cheers,

QS

 

Cheers Sammy!

The QS Logo was done by my good friend Dan, who's also done the cute artwork for my next game - it's quite different to Kraken!

People seem to like it. I mean, who could resist a sheep as cute as that?

QS