Universal Glitchskier (By Shelly Alon)

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  1. Bumpygames

    Bumpygames Well-Known Member

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    Very nice game combined with some nice music
    nice work
     
  2. ttcool

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    Need more than 4 bosses!!!

    This is a killer game and yes I know there's endless, but it would be nice to have more than 4 bosses. Finished it in 2 hours and would love be challenged some more with bosses! Thx :)
     
  3. xjaff

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    Yea that laser is great. :) The shotgun blast is good too if the laser doesn't show up.
     
  4. Guise

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    Such a good game. I've made it mid-way through Level 4 so far. How is endless unlocked? Do you have to beat the campaign or is it a file pickup or something else entirely? Thanks in advance for any info or advice.
     
  5. xjaff

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    You're almost there! Just finish level 4 and it should unlock endless.
     
  6. Guise

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    Thanks! You always come through when I have shmup questions!
     
  7. xjaff

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    Lol, no problem :). I like shmups!
     
  8. retr0spective

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    This game is very challenging and the aesthetics are simply incredible. Easily my new favorite shooter.
     
  9. Andy C83

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    Glitchskier

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    Has been voted the TouchArcade Forums' Game of the Week!

    Congratulations!


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  10. shellyalon

    shellyalon Well-Known Member

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    Thank you <3
     
  11. new_ipodtouch5G_owner

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    Just got around to picking this up over the weekend.
    What else can I say that hasn't already been said about Glitchskier.

    Game has awesome visuals and sounds with spot on controls.
    Such a fantastic game overall, thank you Shelly Alon for making it premium, well worth the $2.79 or more.

    Congratulations on the TA Game of the Week.
     
  12. Remote_

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    Poor form. You don't request a refund when you don't get a game.

    Put it down to experience and move on.

    As everyone is fond of saying these days: This is why we can't have nice things.

     
  13. slamraman

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    what a cracker this is though. My only complaint is that endless mode for me is anything but endless. It's almost over before it's started. Hard as nails!
     
  14. Anotherkellydown

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    #94 Anotherkellydown, Feb 9, 2017
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    Haha! I hear that! Looks like it gives you 2x score but I can't even break 500. I could see some twitch soldiers using this to break the score of those of us that beat the game on normal mode. Seems like a playthrough nets you between 2,700 and 3,000 points. I could be wrong about the endless mode being a way to a higher score. We'll have to wait till the update hits that lowers the iOS requirement so Andy can figure that out. Haha. [EDIT] One of my GC friends has 5,248. Could they have possibly used this method? Will the party of which I am speaking confirm this? :D [/EDIT]

    Also, the game is way different on my mini 2. Playing in landscape there are bits of breakable pixels and enemy positions can be seen past the view of the iPhone. Just an observation I suppose.

    Think I got all the color palettes too, unless there are more than 12. Still play using the first color though, and I turn off distortion and static.
     
  15. xjaff

    xjaff Well-Known Member

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    Hehe, yes endless mode is crazy hard. The 5,248 score would be me :) and yes you are correct on all counts: normal play through nets between 2700 and 3000. To score higher you need to do it on endless which scores you 2x.

    Some tips...

    just focus on surviving the first onslaught, the craziness seems to come in waves and it starts off with a bang so if you can just get through the first thirty seconds or so it should ease up a bit and then you can settle in and progress further. Of course the waves keeps coming so it will continue to get crazy again.

    For me I have to restrain myself from trying to shoot everything down, during the beginning I just clear enough to get a safe path through and keep moving my ship up past the dangerous enemies, just dodging and moving ahead without trying to kill every single thing. When I was trying to kill everything I ended up boxed in because I didn't have enough power and it took too long to shoot them all.

    For me the best weapons are the laser which is a lighting bolt symbol in the pickup, and the shotgun which is a rectangle symbol in the pickup. If I have either one of those I hold to them as long as possible. Skip other pickups if necessary, you don't have to collect every one. Keep track of how many pickups you have, you can always carry two so if you have only one then always grab the second, they are like extra lives. If I have two and one is laser or shotgun then I start skipping pickups.

    I think on my high score run I had both the laser and shotgun at the same time.

    If you have laser it shoots through the white walls, so you can hide behind white walls and blast enemies on the other side of the white walls.

    If you get really good at tracking your pickups you can intentionally get hit to drop one weapon that you don't want and then grab the next, but that isn't really necessary and for me just makes things confusing so I don't bother much with that approach.

    That's about all I can think of. This game is hard, so mostly you just have dodge and dodge and dodge some more. This game rocks.
     
  16. Guise

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    #96 Guise, Feb 9, 2017
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    My only complaint is that this game is a real battery/memory drainer. Playing on a 6+ with the latest iOS. Not sure if there's any way to optimize it or not...
     
  17. dcbro155

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    Game dev. Spent too much time converting Coffee in
    Somewhere between the worlds
    Have to say, it looks sooo good!
     
  18. Anotherkellydown

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    Thanks for those pointers and for clearing things up, xjaff! ;)

    Gonna try endless after work. I knew the weapons stacked and were used as health but didn't know it was a max of 2 at a time. I like the laser a lot too.
     
  19. esty8nine

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    Just took 4th with 4,166 =]
     
  20. slamraman

    slamraman Well-Known Member
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    Jesus - those big plus signs and the ones shaped like cameras will be the death of me. In fact they pretty much are the death of me. Tried a few games this week but came back to Glitchskier. It's a keeper.
     

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