Fireball12 


A vertical shooting game where you pilot a ship and try to destroy oncoming forces.

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News 


  • 4th October 2007- v3.1 is released. 7 days ago that is.
  • 29th July 2007- v3.0 is released.
  • 5th July 2007- Added some minor graphical improvements to v3.0.
  • 23rd May 2007- Started work on this project again.
  • 22nd May 2007- This page created. Again, not finished.

Gameplay

Controls

  The arrow keys control your ship. Left control fires cannon, left shift fires secondary weapon. You can use the F keys to change weapons. Although, now in v3.0 you can change the controls. Yay!

Weapons

There are currently 4 weapons.

  • Rocket Launcher
  • Fire cannon
  • Plasma Swarm
  • Vulcan Turret

Each weapon can be upgraded to a maximum of level three.

In addition your main cannon will level up after defeating enough enemies.

Features

Weapons

There are only 4 weapons in v3. But they're much better.

Cheats

No cheats yet in v3.

Enemies

5 types of enemies with unique attack patterns.

Screenshots

Gameplay in v3

          Development shot. Homing bullets stay still?

Another dev-shot. Early Fire-cannon.

Progress Report


v3.0 is finished now, so see for yourself what its like.

v3.1 is really only bugfixiness.

Version History

Working versions  

  • v1.0: First release, the least glitchy but only a starting point and I moved on.
  • v2.0: An unfinished release. A very, very glitchy release. Very.
  • v3.0: A re-write. And quite a good one. Only one known glitch. (No idea how to fix it.) 
  • v3.1: Bug fixing. Yay.

Download

Can be downloaded from sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fireball12

Requirements

Python

Python v2.4 or higher. You can try with a lower version if you must.

Pygame v1.7 or higher.