Gunpods Vagabond
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Gunpods Vagabond is a 2D, side-scrolling shooter with physically simulated, Lunar Lander style movement mechanics. It is fast-paced, hard, and designed with up to three-player local co-op in mind.
Gunpods is free and always will be! But, you can pay me a few dollars for it if you enjoy it. It's not the most finished game in the world, so don't be surprised if there are minor bugs and incomplete content. Read the instructions menu and turn on 'Practice Mode' until you get the hang of basic flying around and stuff. It is basically a space game, so you must tap the controls gently to stay in control.
Current Feature List:
- Challenging and interesting movement mechanics - none of this "move at a constant velocity as long as you hold the button" business.
- Up to 3-player local multiplayer.
- Optional "hot-joining" - If on, other players can join the game at any time.
- Configurable controls - (Note: this is newly added and not quite twit-proof yet, but it works fine if you don't try to do weird things with it.)
- Analog gamepad support for all players (should work on Mac now)
- Endless survival gameplay - with enemies spawned in a controlled random fashion.
- Practice Mode - Endless easy mode for learning the controls, testing weapons, or just playing around.
- Boost - a high-speed dash maneuver with limited fuel. In addition to making you move really fast it gives the following benefits while active:
- You are immune to impact and explosion damage.(but not bullets!)
- You deal lots of damage to anything you contact.
- Your weapons are 'augmented'.
- 7 Weapons - each with its own unique augmented mode, active while boosting. You have unlimited ammo, but weapons must be reloaded when their magazine is empty.
- 15 Distinct enemy types.
System Requirements:
OpenGL 2.1 or later.
If you don't know what OpenGL version you're running, first find what graphics card you have in your system info, then find it in one of these Wikipedia pages: Intel | GeForce | Radeon If your computer is more recent than 2010 you should be fine.
Unfortunately this is a hard requirement. If your graphics card doesn't meet it, the game will just crash on startup.
Credits:
Graphics, code, sound, etc: Me. (Ross Grams) Built with Godot Engine.
NOTE for Mac: I don't have a mac so these builds are rather untested, but so far I haven't heard of any issues. Gamepad support is brand new on macs, so there might be some issues with that.
If you have issues: Try the debug version for your platform. They're the same except they'll open their own terminal window and should print error reports for anything that goes wrong.
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That's incredible!
Thanks!
Will you continue the development of this game?
This version, no.
It's theoretically possible that I will make some sort of "sequel" at some point, but I haven't gotten around to it in the last 5 years, so don't hold your breath. :)
What do you like most about it?
Despite the movement being a little confusing at first, I found it very fun, as well as beautiful. It reminds me of some old games like Aleste, but infinite. In fact, you published this in 2016, a long time ago... Even so, playing it I wanted to see this game with more things, like music, or even levels. Many of the games I find on itch.io are experiences that I rarely open again, but a game like yours ends up being different and fun because of the randomness, the different weapons, the enemies (Not that other games aren't fun , they just... couldn't entertain me for as long as yours), so it's kind of sad that you stopped there. It seems to have a lot of potential..
Gotcha, cool. Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I actually never liked vertical/horizontal shoot 'em ups myself, haha, so this was my experiment in making one that I would like—more interesting movement controls, more vital choices of when to fire and not fire, etc.
I still like the game and agree that it has potential to be more, I just have a whole ton of other projects that also have potential. :) We'll see!
If you like games with odd controls, you might like Hammerfight (or a newer, Steam game called Sigma Impact, though I don't think it's as good).
Pretty great! Controls are a bit hard, but that's cool!
Thanks, glad you like it!