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a nifty game
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Genre: Action, Arcade
Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux
Languages: English
Players: Single-player
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Oct 1, 2016 @ 3:00am
Sep 1, 2017 @ 12:01pm
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v0.3 beta ready for download!
October 17, 2016 - Lucaro

Today, we released version 0.3 beta! Yes, that’s right, we’re out of alpha. This means that all the functionality we consider essential to the game is now present. There will of course be further additions, especially content wise. We will also add some more stuff to the UI in order to provide better feedback on certain actions during the game and of course we strive to fix all the bugs we (or you) discover. You can download the current release from http://playtest.aniftygame.com/. You will notice that we bundled self-contained packages for all supported platforms instead of just having one download for all of them. This is so the game does not require you to have Java installed anymore in order to run it. So go ahead and download the new version and marvel at all the new wired and wonderful things we packed in there..!

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Description
Release date: Q1 2017
SUMMARY
‘a NIFTY game’ is a fast paced twin stick shooter reminiscent of old arcade games reinterpreted with voxels. Gather powerups with unique effects and collect better weapons to defeat the ever changing enemies and collect their bits.

BACKGROUND
‘a NIFTY game’ takes place in a simulated world, inhabited by various programs, all competing for resources (bits). Defeat the other programs to gather their bits and increase your own strength. But take care, the system gets corrupted the more programs get forcefully terminated. Can you survive the evolving programs and the increasing corruption of the system long enough to escape the simulation?

KEY FEATURES
‘a NIFTY game’ features many key elements from similar arcade games, with some added twists.
  • Procedurally generated levels
  • Evolving enemies inspired by genetics
  • Combinable powerups
  • Multiple weapons
  • Shader effects inspired by glitches of old technologies (e.g. scanlines)











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20 Comments
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BARHOS Nov 17, 2016 @ 1:22pm 
Nice, upvoted.
LunarCore Nov 16, 2016 @ 7:18pm 
Upvoted! :)
tera323 Nov 16, 2016 @ 12:39pm 
good job,waiting
Lucaro  [author] Oct 10, 2016 @ 10:40pm 
@dadadave @nic.meier Thank you for your support and for stopping by at the expo!
nic.meier Oct 9, 2016 @ 2:01pm 
I've seen the game at the toy expo in Switzerland. I talked to the developers and saw the game in action. Looks fun!
dadadave Oct 9, 2016 @ 1:41pm 
I've seen this game at game shows twice and met the devs: They're really smart and the game has some really cool ideas: I feel the description, although wonderfully concise, might be underselling it. Maybe you could elaborate a little after the initial TL;DR paragraph?
dragbone  [author] Oct 3, 2016 @ 1:24pm 
@Bleepmap: Thanks for your input, I'm not completely happy with the visibility of enemies. Like you mentioned, the floor can be distracting and we might tone it down a bit. Adding the possiblity to adjust the floor brightness in the options menu might also be an option (especially a color blind setting).
So Serene Oct 3, 2016 @ 8:45am 
That looks really nice. You might wanna tone down the brightness of the floortiles, as it's a little hard to see the player, enemies, or shots.
Lucaro  [author] Oct 2, 2016 @ 3:55am 
@Hirnwirbel: It's mostly visual but it will have a direct impact on the gameplay since it will become more difficult to distinguish certain game elements when the colors abruptly change or areas of the screen are obscured by ‘screen errors’. Generally speaking, the more ‘glitches’ the more difficult the game becomes.
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