this is unexpectedly addictive!! i love the music too

i love how you made it to look 3d, pretty wild! and a very fun game too =' D

edit: also someone beat my score of 73284 http://i.imgur.com/VVtlrEf.png

good game! i was really confused at first but it was fun once i got the hang of it. it ran fine on my computer and the music and sound were effective. maybe the destruction sound was a bit grating? i'd expect the "you fucked up" sound to be more of a klaxon than the "you destroyed the thing" sound. games like this make me super twitchy tho, so i will probably never ever touch it again.

i also didn't even realize it was supposed to be 3D until halfway through writing this comment. i thought the text graphics were interesting but not evocative of anything in particular.

my high score was 81497! beat that!

Heh, thanks!

I didn't have any time to actually balance the sounds.
The "enemy disappeared" sound was actually going to be the enemy shooting sound. Probably could have made the destruction sound a bit quieter, but it was always supposed to sound like a hammer hitting an anvil or something.
it's also a pretty important sound since it lets you confirm kills, you can still plink enemies that have gone off-screen

I'm actually amazed that it's kind of fun, it ended up going from "pile of code to put text on screen" to "working, playable game" within an hour.
I wanted to add a star-field and obstacles to enhance the "3D" feeling, but alas.

My biggest regret with the game is that the enemy sprite is so awful.
I had nicer ones made, but that was the one that was in game already. Heck, I'd probably have turned that enemy sprite into an explosion if I had more time to work on this.

also, my official developer high score is 134454 139524 if anyone wants to give it a go :D

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currently known bug: if a shot and an enemy change zoom distance at the same time, neither will collide and you will miss -- eg, shot going from 2->3 and then an enemy going from 3->2 and they're never at the same depth because both changed that frame
It's a bit rare, but not rare enough and you'll probably die from it at some point.
The code should probably have used the sub-depth as well when determining collision, but it's ridiculous how short a period of time where the game went from "I wrote collision and maybe it works" to "oh shit I'm uploading".

Might release a post-compo version with a few little changes+tweaks (at least, I'll put in a fix for collisions)

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at some point after the compo ends, I'll post WILD-BREAKER.ex, an upgraded version of the game with color, a starfield, better difficulty balance, fixed collsions, and a handful of other little things (pausing, multiple high scores, etc)

wild-breaker.ex is still happening, it's just plagued with feature creep
but it has everything I listed except fixed collisions (which is the whole point) because I kind of need to just rewrite depth handling completely
don't worry lol

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one of these centuries I'll actually finish this
it's really, actually almost done
almost

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no seriously really really I actually really should just finish WILD-BREAKER.ex, it's basically done except for a few things I said I'd put in and haven't

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it's been two years
aaaaaaaaaaa

so, this has (largely) been sitting on my computer for years now, I went and gave it a quick once-over to make sure it all worked
https://files.catbox.moe/zyxcau.zip

This is a stable, if unfinished release of WILD-BREAKER.ex.
It doesn't have all the things I wanted to add, like bombs or integrated story text, but it is in color, I've improved the drawing, and I've done a bunch of other things I forgot about.
Enjoy.