Yay for Awesome Titles!
Anyway, this is a little something I whipped up in about an hour's work. It is a top down shooter completely controlled by hot keys. Right is right, Left is left, W is shoot and Down is Smart Bomb.
This image doesnt really give a fair view of how the game works but its all i could really give before adding any action. The Lightning Effects are deployed one after another in lines to give a traveling lazer effect. (Deploying multiple in one spot is another cool effect, but too laggy for this purpose).
I'm not 100% sure yet if I can get this to work properly but it looks promising. Without any enemies added yet the controls seem to work fine, although there have been some problems with the bullets. For some reason this game requires a lot of computer memory, it actually crashed my game because of this (and I have A LOT of memory on this comp). I'll try and fix that.
All in all, I'm probably going start adding enemies rather soon, if anyone has an idea of how to do this feel free to speak up. If i want to make intricate patterns as is common in the genre I imagine ill need one army per unit. Should be possible though.
Nifty isn't it?