Space Barnacle

[eMTe]

Decent, but short platformer with stylish graphics.

Your Spaceship: Shot down...
Your Father: Dead.
Your Mission: REVENGE

Originally created for the The Independent Gaming Source B-Game Design Contest, Space Barnacle is an homage to the classic 8-bit games of yore.

Hunt for the technology required to obliterate your enemies and avenge your father. Destroy the reactors. Send attackers to their graves. And avoid the deadly machinery that blocks your path!

Developer: Mark Johns

http://www.doomlaser.com/barnacle/

[Chroelle]

I like the beginning of this game. Somewhat unexpected way to die.

The enemies are varied in strengths movement patterns and abilities, which gives a fun gameplay. You dont feel like you are killing the same type of monster over and over again.

[Pater Alf]

I'm not amazed. First of all you can't change the key configuration which means the game is hard to play for me (someone should tell the developers that Z and X key are not even somewhere near on German keyboards).

The retro style is nice, but the level design is not always clear and sometimes I jumped into nowhere because I thought it would be the right way to go (maybe that's more my fault). And there are even some bugs. Once I certainly was warped to another level without any reason which was quite annoying and in another situation I was able to leave the screen with an elevator (which made no sense).

So I would say that it's a nice retro platform shooter, but certainly not one of the best ones in the freeware section.