Rocket Burn

OK I will be honest; the primary draw card for me with this game was the statement that it was 30 seconds long. Half a minute, really? Actually not really but that's because I'm awesome, I made it to 87 seconds. (I'd have put up a brag screen but image capture is disabled.) The second was it didn't have a review, probably because of reason one, but in my probably futile and self assigned quest to drop that unreviewed percentage down each month, I had to give this a go. Also there was a bit of a challenge in the concept of filling out the 300 word minimum on a game that had a run time of less than it took me to write this paragraph.

So the game is all game play, you are the pilot of a spacecraft, don't ask me their name or character history, there isn't any, it's a 30 second game. Exposition doesn't exist. Your job is to burn or collide with a group of coloured coded spawning enemies to earn as many points as you can before the timer winds down to zero. Each hit nets you 3 points, each burn gains you one. As well as giving you varying point scores three of the four enemies you face; blue, green and yellow also increase your available time. Red, the last enemy type that appears does not. I imagine that as to ensure a defined end point to the game as otherwise you could keep killing enemies indefinitely and adding to your available time.

Controls are simple though fiddly and perhaps a little too responsive, left and right arrows to turn or manoeuvre, the 'z' key enables thrust and the 'c' pauses the game, though that last one seems a trifle redundant in such a short game. In addition you can go off the edge of the screen if you are a little heavy handed on the throttle, and once you have you can be stuck out there with no indication of where you are, or the direction you are facing so you can return to the playing area. There is a teleport option to get back on screen but those cost you three points and three precious seconds.

This game was really just made as an experiment for the developer and is no more than that, but if you want to spend a minute or so frying amorphous coloured blobs whilst you are waiting for the kettle to boil then give it a go.