Monokey free pc shmups

poodude · Post by **poodude** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:47 am

I happened upon quite a few little pc shmup gems from an indie coding group called Monokey.

http://www.daikenkai.com/mygames/

They're all free for download and have pretty fun game play with unique bullet patterns.

FORCE MAJEURE

BLESSED

LOVELESS

GrimoreLibrarian · Post by **GrimoreLibrarian** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:37 am

Force Majeure looks a bit Metal Slugish! I'll try that one out.

Edit: It's not done, and seeing how the forum has been inactive since February I have high doubts it will be finished.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:56 am

I tried Force Majeure. Ugh. Programmer is in love with shot patterns that you can't really pass through .. and curvy bullets that curve right into your ship. On top of that your ship is slow, so it's hard to get out of the way when a bullet changes course. Your hit area isn't exactly tiny either. It's not huge, but not bullet hell small either.

Also your wide shot, which you have to tap to use, is frustratingly hard to get a decent shot rate out of. I felt like I had to use autofire.

Other things : When you die, even while your ship is still temporarily invincible, the enemies keep firing at you. In most other shmups, they don't start firing until your invincibility period is gone. Makes it way harder to recover after a death.

Also pressing 'Fire' on the continue screen continues. All I can say is .. lol.

After killing the first boss it said "Full version coming in Winter 2007!". Yeah.

I was frustrated more than anything .. nice graphics and music though.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:11 am

Tried Blessed .. it's actually way better and has a cool shield/counterattack system. Only complaint is by default button 2 is the 'exit game' menu, and button 3 is the shield button. WTF??

I'd reccomend Blessed, and reconfigure the controls before you start playing. Oh, and watch the tutorial.

Edit: Loveless is kinda cool too, but a bit easy .. also for some reason you only get one life, maybe that's because I put it on EXTREEEEEME mode? :O

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:36 am

The bullet patterns in Force Majeure is no doubt a bit inspired by a certain hori from Cave. I don't think they are as undodgeable as they are undynamic. The creator is showing his Amiga roots to clearly...

Nice graphics of course. There's several Swedes that make good, old fashioned pixel graphics. I would wich for one of them to try and take pixel graphics into the 21 century instead of 'just' being retro.

I would be surprised if the creator isn't a member here. Therefore I have one suggestion:

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playerspeed=playerspeed+2

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:43 am

320x240 wrote:I would be surprised if the creator isn't a member here. Therefore I have one suggestion:
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playerspeed=playerspeed+2

Yeah, great idea! Put it in the main game loop for extra fun ;D

the2bears · Post by **the2bears** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:20 am

GrimoreLibrarian wrote:Edit: It's not done, and seeing how the forum has been inactive since February I have high doubts it will be finished.

They've been pretty quiet lately, which is a shame. I happen to like Force Majeure quite a bit, shows considerable promise.

Bill

fsFreak · Post by **fsFreak** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:18 pm

I know the thread is a bit old and all, but what the hell...

We're well aware of the the few quirks, and the release date.
As some of you know, this was just a demo, or more like a quick mash-up, to get something to show for the autofire 2k7 compo (which we placed third in I believe). The final game (which we have every intention of finish) will probably not feature this stage, enemy-patterns or bullet patterns.

And yeah, winter 2007 was WAY to optimistic. Sadly all of us have fulltime jobs (me as a programmer, artist as an artist etc.) so sometimes it can be a bit hard to do the exact thing at home that you deal with at work all day long

But as I said, we DO have every intention of completing this game. And when we do it's gonna kick ass.

Also, thanks for commenting on Blessed, which I myself think is a very 'complete' game. (Far more complete than most indie shoot'em ups.)

EDIT:
also our page is down at the moment( http://www.daikenkai.com/monokey/ ) since I had to reinstall the server. But it will be up when we got something to actually put there. For now the games can be found at:
http://www.daikenkai.com/monokey/apps

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:35 pm

fsFreak wrote:I know the thread is a bit old and all, but what the hell...

We're well aware of the the few quirks, and the release date.
As some of you know, this was just a demo, or more like a quick mash-up, to get something to show for the autofire 2k7 compo (which we placed third in I believe). The final game (which we have every intention of finish) will probably not feature this stage, enemy-patterns or bullet patterns.

And yeah, winter 2007 was WAY to optimistic. Sadly all of us have fulltime jobs (me as a programmer, artist as an artist etc.) so sometimes it can be a bit hard to do the exact thing at home that you deal with at work all day long

But as I said, we DO have every intention of completing this game. And when we do it's gonna kick ass.

Also, thanks for commenting on Blessed, which I myself think is a very 'complete' game. (Far more complete than most indie shoot'em ups.)

EDIT:
also our page is down at the moment( http://www.daikenkai.com/monokey/ ) since I had to reinstall the server. But it will be up when we got something to actually put there. For now the games can be found at:
http://www.daikenkai.com/monokey/apps

hey dude, welcome to the site

dont miss uppcon this weekend, i will showcase my cave collection there for all to try (wont be attending myself tho), a rare chance to see and play all the latest shoot'em'up releases in this country.

fsFreak · Post by **fsFreak** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:39 pm

Sounds awesome. and yeah I'll be there and play my funky muzak

peace.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:51 pm

fsFreak wrote:Sounds awesome. and yeah I'll be there and play my funky muzak

peace.

coool, sad i'll miss it, i still have the soundtrack to loveless in the car

proper vintage collectible too, burned by krelian

fsFreak · Post by **fsFreak** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:06 pm

hehe.. but I didn't make the music for loveless

that was strukt ..

I make datamusic (http://www.fsfreak.com)

slightly offtopic now btw ... :/

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:57 am

Every time I open this thread I find myself again disappointed at the lack of shmups extolling the virtues of white supremacy. :(