Breakers Yard:Dual-stick shooter with auto-combining weapons

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Breakers Yard:Dual-stick shooter with auto-combining weapons

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Hello! I am developing a top-down shooter in Unity called Breakers Yard, inspired by the likes of SmashTV and Geometry Wars. At the heart of the game is the weapon-combination system: Instead of swapping out one power-up for another, they all just combined with each other automatically, so you could have all of them at once! Also: There are global leaderboards.

You can play the latest build here: http://protophant.com/latest

About the game:
- It gets updated about 1 or 2 times a week, the leaderboards just went live this week!
- It’s still under development, so if you have ideas about how to improve it, fire away.
- If you want, you can play all the old builds too (going back over a year) at the devlog, the first ones are pretty primitive.
- The devlog is here: http://protophant.com
- My Twitter is here: http://twitter.com/protophant

FAQ:
- Q: Is there a difference between the characters? A: No, it's just cosmetic, pick the one you think looks the coolest.
- Q: What am I shooting? A: Your basic weapon shoots junk, I'm currently talking to an artist. :)
- Q: Why did I lose all my powerups!? A: You probably ran over a "?" powerup, which has a chance to remove all powerups. This is slated for removal, but may return when I can improve feedback to the player.
- Q: I can't find the rope! A: It may be hiding under a tire that rolled over it. This is uncommon, but I'm working on a solution that makes sense.

Hope y'all like it!
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Re: Breakers Yard: Fast paced, robot-crushing action

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Post a couple new builds this week: Improved the leaderboards and added new playable character!

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Two builds later: FlameBot and FlameShot!
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Another new build: PumpBot and PumpShot!
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