Vectrex Academy 2021 Project
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Game
Title
Project
Status
- Project completed
- Release version available for
download
- Please send feedback
Synopsis
- Play hide-and-seek with your
enemies and let them destroy each other!
How To
Play
- Move the hero around
in the arena.
- A few seconds after
the level starts, the enemies will
start wandering around to random
locations.
- The enemies' field of
view is displayed by a darker
triangle in front of them.
- Walk into an enemies'
field of view to get them to hunt
and shoot.
- The player is always
faster than the enemies.
- Their weapons have to
be charged up, which is displayed
by lines, which become brighter in
three stages. At the final stage,
the shot is fired, hitting
everything inside the enemy's
field of view (no projectile is
spawned).
- Lure the hunting
enemy, so that it shoots the other
one! If one of them hits the other
- both will explode.
- Once all enemies are
dead, you will be awarded points
based on the remaining seconds for
the level and the next level will
start.
- If time runs out, you
lose. If you have no lives left,
the game is over.
Game Rules
- Make the enemy hunt you by moving into its field
of view.
- The enemy will then chase you and start shooting,
only the third stage of the shot will do damage.
- When an enemy hits another enemy, the shot enemy
will explode (the explosion does not do any harm
however).
- Once there is only one enemy left, the player is
given the ability to perform a strike himself.
- To strike, the player needs to be close to the
remaining enemy and press button 4, which will do a
circular sword sweep around the player.
- The attack is only possible if
- only one enemy is left and
- the player is close enough to the enemy.
- A timer in the bottom left corner displays the
remaining time. Once the time is over, the game is
over. Each level starts with 32 seconds.
- Points are awarded for speed. If all enemies are
destroyed, the timer is stopped and the remaining
seconds are added to the score.
Author
Concept
Art
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Screenshots
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Downloads
- Beta release candidate: instigator.bin
- Overlay file: instigator.png
- Game manual: not yet available
- Downloads are free and for non commercial use
only. Use at your own risk.
- Please
respect the copyright and credit the
author and the origin of this game.
Online
Playing
- Link to Dr. Snuggles' online
emulator to directly play the game in your
browser: Instigator
Feedback
- Feedback, and bug reports are
very welcome and will be relayed to the
author.
- Please use this link
to send your comments.
Latest modification on 08/25/2021,
14:45
- Release declared, project completed
- Download section added
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