Arcade

Maddening by Allison James

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Enter the realms of MADNESS, take yourself over and beyond the EDGE of sanity, feel the intense panic of the ever threatening WALL.
Maddening is a new and revolutionary game, which takes you through 50 levels over 5 difficulty settings levels of highly Addictive, fun filled gameplay. Escape the ever chasing WALL, through goo, past spikes and off bouncy things. Each game will take you deeper into the depths of Lunacy.

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System: Windows, iOS, Android
Price: Free (Windows), £0.99 (Mobile)
Music: Provoco
Fonts: Will Robinson, Baveuse

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“An interesting minimalist platformer to keep you busy for a little while.” -AppSpy

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EverScrollingTwo by Allison James

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An improved, enhanced version of EverScrollingHue, with better music, more variety and is slightly more playable as it’s a bit dimmer. Bizarre game that most will see as eye candy, but is actually a not-bad arcade shooter. An enemy floats around shooting in as many directions as the wave number. You use your stream of bullets to take his down while killing him and protecting yourself.

Kill the enemy and he becomes stronger (and you get more points). Keep going until you run out of health, which is shown in large for a second or so when you get shot. Points at top. Controls shown in-game. And, of course, all displayed in lovely sprays of colour (where it gets its name – the hue of all the in-game stuff is constantly changing).

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Transitbot
Fonts: Allison James (Punishment) (in updated build)

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“goash, that was nuts....” - Nikc-Nakc

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Infinite Sporadic by Allison James

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If games could do the dirty and make babies, the parents of Infinite Sporadic would be PixHell and Head Candy. An intense bullet hell in which you must avoid wave after wave of patternous red lines.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: KitaKhyber
Fonts: Garage Gothic FB

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“Review” - Reviewer

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Atmos by Allison James

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A simple arcade space shooter inspired by one of Action 52’s plethora of terror.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James (Cfour)

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“FUN” - Redzilla
”Touches like the circular text path and the parallax background were nice.” - brxtr
”Nothing amazing with the game itself but it was nice and fun.” - Ryan Langewisch

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Remaddening by Allison James

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madnessMADNESSmadness 2. Go through three levels of tiered difficulty, play through a specialist level where you can't turn back, or even endure a procedurally generated level, completely randomly made and unlooped for constantly different obstacles. And if you're bored of its looks, why not recolour it to suit your visual needs?

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Kita Khyber
Fonts: Will Robinson

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“Love the new modes” - Vivi IX
”Awesome game, nothing to say :3” - andrymysterious
”This was a great follow-up to mMm; felt very complete.” - KniteBlargh
”Good game and nice improvement. I like the new modes too.” - BitZero

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Acid R(ai/eig)n by Allison James

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Another "quickie", Acid R[ai/eig]n was the result of an idea I had around 10pm last night. By midnight it was this game. It may suffer lag if you're really good at it, but it should hopefully be minimised now (I released it as a direct link over Twitter last night which suffered it a lot harder).

Anyway, in Acid R[ai/eig]n, you are in control of the growth of a tree. You can use Z and X to rotate the curvature of branches currently growing. Every three seconds, branches will split into two separate ones. As the tree ages, or as acid rain makes contact with it, it begins to die. Holes will start to form in branches, which need to be patched up. The game ends when 100 droplets of acid rain hit the floor.

It's an arcade game, not the most variety-filled thing ever but probably worth a quick single play. Trees can be very pretty to look at, I've left the F9 screenshot function in if you want to take some screenies of your trees and share them.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Abscondo - Morning Rain
Fonts: OCR A

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“The music and the gameplay were good. Coding this is waaay beyond me, and i'd be interested to see how it was made.” - DeadProfile

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Ne Touchez Pas 4 by Allison James

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Ne Touchez Pas IV, my entry into YoYo Games Competition 05 (no, I'm not particularly in it to win it, I just like entering this stuff ) is a game which builds off NTP3 in the pursuit of improvement.

All of the levels are the same, probably not a massively popular decision, but I'm trying to bring in improvements in other areas to make up for that.

For those unfamiliar with NTP, it is a game which compiles many variants of don't-touch-the-walls games (including two from my past - Rockit and NAL's Jet Pod).

There are 50 levels, playable with six separate characters:

Bird will be familiar to anyone that's played Messhof's Flywrench or any of the previous NTP games. New to NTP4, Bird has an autoflap button as well as a manual flap. Left/Right make the bird strafe, Z is for manual flap and Up for autoflap. Down can be used for the level start if you want to start with a freefall, not an upwards movement.
Jetpod is the only character unaltered from NTP3. It's basically a slower, easier version of the bird with smooth upward thrusting and strafing.
Missile is a redesigned version of NTP3's "Rockit". Since mouse controls are disallowed from Competition 05 entries I had to alter the controls. The D-pad now makes the missile hurtle in whichever direction is pressed. It's at one set speed and is unaffected by gravity.
Spaceman has been changed from NTP3 significantly. He's still unaffected by gravity and friction, but now the entire screen rotates as he does and you have to keep control of him and track of the level as it turns before you. Pretty good at inducing dizziness.
Vehicle, first of two new characters, is a small, speedy car in which you use up to accelerate, down to decelerate/reverse and left/right to turn. This is a fairly easy one to do since you can be patient with it and it's nippy and agile enough to get through the tightest of gaps.
Square is named to reflect its simplicity. Direction keys simply move it in whichever direction is pressed. It stops instantly when you let go. It's fairly slow (though holding Z will double its speed), but small enough to get through super-tight gaps. Designed to be similar to World's Hardest Game, though is much easier.

The menu system has been redesigned also. It's incomplete (if you play the build you can only access The Grid and Quit Game on the main menu) but getting there. What exists is pretty much fully functional. Controls for the menus are given so I needn't go in-depth into them.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Kita Khyber
Fonts: Bebas

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“Fun, fun, fun, and more fun is all I can say.” - BitZero
”SO AWESOME!” - Blobman72
”Excellent game play, non-repetitive music, fun problems to solve and replayable thanks to all the different characters. Top marks.” - Philip Gamble
“Playing with the missile is like the most intense game of snake ever created O_o” - SumYungGai
”Add some antialias or at least a option for it. It would improve the visuals a lot.” - YellowAfterlife (I’m sorry YAL, I never did)

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SohoPogoHo by Allison James

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SohoPogoHo, my creation for the Game Jolt jam, is a game in which you play as a pogo stick-wielding prostitute bringing her unique services to the world.

The game is primarily mouse-controlled, with the cursor deciding the direction in which she pogos, and the left and right mouse buttons controlling the bounce intensity. Get to the man at the end of each level to finish it.

The game is fairly difficult, but can be taken both slowly or quickly (slowly's advisable to start with).

Includes two trophies, for completing all ten rooms and for earning $50,000.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: None
Fonts: 04b_03b

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“I really really like this one” - HarteStulle
”I like this game, but it's very buggy. Buggy as all hell.” - MJDJ
”It's a really original and fun game, with a cool art style.” - Manuel Magalhães
”I work in Soho, and I've not seen any hoes yet!” - Ashley Gwinnell

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10x2 by Allison James

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This is an extremely simple arcade game made in a friendly competition between a few friends to make a game in 10 minutes.

None of us had finished, so the deadline was extended by another 10 minutes. I won by default, and my entry, 10, became 10x2.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: None
Fonts: Arial Black

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Nowza

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La Rolloux by Allison James

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Spiritual sequel to 2007's "Cutting Run!", La Rolloux is an arcade platformer controlled entirely by mouse gestures in which you must jump, duck and shoot your way to survival as you roll uncontrollably into an obstacle course.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Petriform
Fonts: ?

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“Repetitive but fun and mildly addictive. A nice, polished game overall, well done.” - David Chen
”Nice implementation of achievements. Not a bad game either ;D” - TrueValhalla
”La awesome.” - Zack Banack
”This is really nice, it took me a long time to realize that the graphics were in 2.5D mode, VERY clever stuff there” - Brian Rodriguez

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Rainbow Planet 2 by Allison James

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Sequel to mid-2007's Rainbow Planet. Pretty shallow experience, but what the hey. Shoot the boxes before they hit you, going as quickly as possible to keep your score high.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: L’Homme Manete
Fonts: The Bends

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“Most of the time, the patterns in the background felt like colored pencil strokes to me.” - rotten_tater
”Nice Graphical effects and nicely polished” - Amidos

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madnessMADNESSmadness by Allison James

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Escape the wall, in a bizarre, circular world where the path comes at you through 360 degrees and disappears underneath. Survive as long as you can. Includes online highscores. Made for Game Jolt Minimal Contest.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Covox
Fonts: Will Robinson

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“Very awesome game!” - IndieSyncDev
”OMG, this is cool.” - XHH
”Comparable to nothing, madnessMADNESSmadness is in a class of its own.” - TJackson

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RKF by Allison James

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RKF, or Rhythmic Kicking Firehead, is a shooter mixed with a rhythm game. You don't actually have to do anything in time with anything - the game automatically fires for you, and its firing sets off drum sounds. An ever-increasingly intense wall of black circle things comes towards you, which you must shoot to eradicate.

At the end, the number of verses multiplied by the number of circles you killed makes up your final score.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Robust ICG

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“The inclusion of rhythm in this game won me over. Maybe I'm easily pleased?” - KniteBlargh
”Great game, I die every time when you lose a lot of the beat.” - Reigalius
”Nice Game I dlove the music and the bullets acts like they are in harmony :)” - Amidos

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PixHell by Allison James

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Made in an hour. Short, difficult bullet hell. You're a pixel. Avoid the other pixels that stream out around the centre of the room en masse.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: TerraNation
Fonts: Allison James (Notalot35)

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“Most fun I've had in a long time. Thanks.” - Reigalius
”all you do is dodge bullets” - The Afterlife Games

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The Hilarity of Murder by Allison James

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Made 100% in Game Maker Lite. You are terminally ill with a disease which kills you if you don't find things funny. As luck would have it, you find killing things funny, and there are some hostile enemies after your blood. See how long you can survive.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: TerraNation
Fonts: DIN Next

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“This is an great game, it is just sad that it not have an lazer.” - NessXX
”Very nice game. Should definitely place in the competition.” - Zack Banack
“impressive graphics, but the bridges made it impossible to see stuff.” - Jan Willem Nijman

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Head Candy by Allison James

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The result of me playing with my newfound surface skills. Very sparkly game, very pleasant background music. Weird game, but whatcha gonna do? :D

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Ray Bolger
Fonts: Allison James (Smorgasbord) in updated build

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“Nice Effects in graphics :)” - Amidos
”I loved the music!” - tembac
”the music does not fit” - roboguy

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Infidels by Allison James

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3D third person arcade shooter set in a wrestling ring. It's 2071, a year when being Ginger is a religion. Anti-Gingers are trying to kill you by any means. It's up to you to fend them off. Includes online highscores and more effort than I've put into a complete game in a long time.

Created for the GameJolt Shocking competition (the link - you use electroguns as your weapon to shock the enemies).

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: DBS Artcore
Fonts: Kimberley

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“Yay for trippy NAL games!” - KniteBlargh
“I like the menu and story, but other then that the gameplay was rather boring.” - Jan Willem Nijman

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MINDSCREW by Allison James

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UNSUITABLE FOR EPILEPSY SUFFERERS/PHOTOSENSITIVE PEOPLE. Arcade shooter.

Help your native planet, BRAINLOVE, survive numerous waves of enemy attack. Enemies shoot you, fly into you, and even hurt your eyeballs to try to take you down. Still, a planet and blindness is better than no planet, right?

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Jankenpopp
Fonts: Accidental Presidency

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“nice game, visuals are great. Really like the day/night concept” - Retsamuga
”Great idea. Trippy colors. I've had 3 seizures already.” - Aleksandr

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Ne Touchez Pas 3 by Allison James

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Ne Touchez Pas 3 is a large third games in the NTP series, in which you must mavigate your way through a series of levels increasing in difficulty (they start fairly easily but become very, very difficult as you progress). As well as being a sequel to NTP1/2, it's also a sequel to NAL's Jet Pod and Rockit. In the game, you can choose one of four ways to play - the Bird, the Jet Pod, Rockit, and a spaceman (let's call them NAL).

There are 50 levels in Ne Touchez Pas 3. I have thoroughly tested the game and modified aspects for certain characters to ensure that every level is possible with every character. The game allows you to play any level at any time, so you can skip levels if you get stuck or revisit them at will. It will also record levels you've completed and give you an overall percentage of completion (to give you an idea of the difficulty of the final levels, the highest recorded percentage achieved is 99%).

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Kevin MacLeod, Peacemaker, Steven Freedom
Fonts: Ambient

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“One of your most successful projects. Minimalistic, well made, polished and enjoyable.” - scoz
”Great game that I spent a lot of time playing.” - brxtr
”You did a great job with this!” - KniteBlargh

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FKR3 by Allison James

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The psychedelic sequel to a psychedelic swing-em-up! You play as a virus (not a real one, don’t worry) who must fend off antiviruses with a cluster of orbiting trojans. Plenty of improvements all around. Two more enemies, raising the total to six, and the game progresses quicker so more people will see them. As you progress, the game’s tint changes colour, from white to black to maroon to navy blue and ending on a weird mess of colours. I also learnt a new item for the game – writing with a font made from a sprite.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Tendamix, The Prodigital
Fonts: Florencesans

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Everyone thought FKR2 was better

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