Submissions by Gibson.Hickey tagged top-down-scroller

Inexplicably forgetting things? You may have contracted a serious case of forgetfulness. Enter your brain, full of Neurons and Synapses that control memory. But what's this? They're going silent and losing connection with each other! Looks like some entity is the cause behind it, but not to worry we have just the fix.

The brain is a maze of Synapses and Neurons, an unknown entity seems to be shutting them all down therefore disconnecting them. You play as a microscopic Nano machine, whose job is to reactivate and reconnect them.

The entity races ahead of you disconnecting synapses along its path, you must follow along and reconnect those synapses. As you go along you will gradually catch up, this allows you to unleash your 'vaccination' weapons in order to destroy this microscopic pest. Catching up however is not so simple, the entity throws disruptive energy as it travels slowing you down, as well as 'cellular walls' from the environment that will block the way. As you complete levels you will gain 'energy' that can be spent to enhance your machine allowing for tighter control, greater speed and increased firepower.

Controls are arrows to manoeuvre and 'Space' to boost, you automatically start firing once close enough to the entity. Maps are laid out in a maze-like, but circular/circuit pattern, with multiple synapse pathways leading around and the camera follows above with its direction locked to your machine's facing direction.

-Game play Genre, Top-down shooter/racer, Action, Puzzle

-Target audience, those who enjoy the genre

-Reference image from, hplusmagazine

Here comes the Cavalry is a fairly simple top down scroller. The objective is to take your starting cavalry unit and run him into 'free' horse riders in order to enlist them, thereby adding to and enlarging the group of units you move and control at once, which you then take to the end of the level in order to win against an opposing army.

Each level provides its own set of obstacles the player must avoid, including stationary landmarks such as buildings or impassable terrain. Colliding with such obstacles generally causes you to lose units in your group. Some more interactive obstacles include 'Rebel horseman' who are opposed to the war and will try to run into your group to 'persuade' one or two of your soldiers to desert. Food rations and drink are another obstacle but require you to collect them in order to keep your 'morale' gauge high, miss too many and you may find soldiers veering off to another particular obstacle called a 'Bar'. When you approach the end of the level depending if you have met the same amount of enemy soldiers with your own will determine if you win. As you complete levels you will unlock alternate cavalry which have different traits for what kind of obstacles will appear more or less frequently, this only applies once to your starting unit.

-Platform would primarily be iOS/Android

-Game play, Top Down Scroller, Action

-Target Audience, General

-Reference image, Scotland Forever! is an 1881 oil painting by Lady Butler