Quick Look: Sixty Second Shooter Prime

It's fine if you want to do minimalist art, or even bad art, but at least have a unified art theme. This looks like some clip art & MS Word geometry mashed together.

@aegon: THRILLHO

Brad.. "Testify" .. you continue to redeem yourself.. I like it..

Man, this looks like some Xbox Live indie game.

I miss Geometry Wars, why haven't they done anything with that since.

The music in this game is incredibly annoying.

Feel bad judging a game based on it's look but jesus... this thing looks like a design prototype. Finish it up!

I'm buying a xbox one for this game!

The Wii Geometry Wars was pretty rad, you guys. You know, with the Classic controller.

Considering it doesn't do anything new gameplay wise, i wouldn't.

Also, i like how Major Nelson, played like half a game, and then said "Fuck this"

Isn't that the same menu scroll noise from MGS2?

Somebody realize Brad's dream of a Mrs. Doubtfire dual joystick shooter.

I'm not a fan of this game but I'm a huge fan of the creator's other game Energy Hook. Please GB someone get a hold of Jamie Fristrom and do a Quick Look EX of Energy Hook! :D

Jeff sums it up at the very beginning though talking about how he put Energy Hook on hold because he sensed an opportunity to make a dual stick shooter for xbone. I thought it was a very bad idea....whatever I just hope Energy Hook turns out good it has a lot of potential and can't just go on hold like that unless theres solid ideas that need fermenting which it didn't seem like Energy Hook was like that when it was put on hold. There still needs to be a breakthrough in the trick system which then needs a lot of tweaking and time testing but none of that seemed there before the long break. The update before Energy Hook went on hold made the swinging not super slow and difficult anymore (it had a few updates where swinging got kinda bad), so at least swinging was amazingly fun.

Either way Energy Hook is super fun with or without a trick system but if it is going to go from something similar to Tony Hawk 1's tricks to THPS2, THPS3, and so on, it needs that time and major breakthroughs.

What's the game they're talking about at the end? Ruben? Roobin. Ruubin? Obviously I'm not spelling it right because I can't find it on Google...

@pinner458: Toobin'

@pinner458: Toobin', it's a game about littering.

This is definitely a case of programmer art making it to the final release. The menus scream "I'll get to it later". I kinda like the cracks that appear on the ground, maybe if this game had leaned more heavily into the glass aesthetic it could have been cool. Some consistency and some shader effects would have gone a long way to making this game look modern.

Whoooooah this game does not play well with my brain. i had to stop the video at only 2 minutes in. I have some sensory sensitivity problems due to autism (bright lights, sounds, smells, etc) but normally video games don't give me too much trouble in that area. Something about this game though... it's like i'm staring at a strobe light. Really unsettling.

I just cranked 650 points out of this in half an hour. Silver linings.

Does Pixeljunk Shooter not count as a dual joystick shooter? Cos that game is rad.

This looks like a rookie Early Access game.

So much MEH.

Wait, they want people to pay money for this?

You know what dual-stick arena shooter should have been ported to the One? Waves. That game is hecka dope. Cool modes, cool visuals, and a cool system where combos earn bombs that you use to extend your combo and earn more bombs.

Holy cow this game is ugly. I realize the dude opportunistically pushed this out there, and it looks like he did just that.

This kind of goes beyond programmer art.

Its like if you were making a game, and wanted to test the code with default 3D Cubes and Triangles as the prefabs, with test textures overlayed on those prefabs

But then you just put out the game like that

Yes. That was also my reaction.

I think this looks crappy visually, but in a way that reminds me of a ton of older crappy games I played because you don't have choices as a kid. So it's nostalgic in a weird broken way.

I like any game that lets me live out my dreams of being a triangle.

Major Nelson is terrible.

@berserker976: Bitch whine bitch bitch whine bitch whine

It's like a next-gen prototype for Zoop 2. Without the puzzle element.

@scotto said:

Yeah, Jeff was definitely missing the point of the "next floor" mechanic. Arthur Gies' score of 150,000+ probably wasn't even that hard to get if you just blast through until like level 8-12 or so, then use a couple of the bombs/your missiles to blow a ton of people up at once in the last 10 or so seconds. Instead Jeff just piddled around floor 4-6 for no good reason.

But yeah, this game shouldn't be a commercial product.