LA Games Compo #1: The Chaos Engine

The Dark Prince

Welcome to the first in what will hopefully become a series of edgy and trendy competition rounds! This first month, this wonderful first round heralds the arrival of...

A rather spiffy shootemup by the Bitmap Brothers, choose from several characters and bring death to all around you, and all with the help of a computer controlled friend, who will at least once steal your health and annoy the hell out of you Razz

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Rules

This round of the competition starts now(10th April) and will end the 1st of May, 24:00 (midnight) GMT
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Score as many points as possible.
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Only one player can be human (either mode is okay).
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Post screenshots with your highest combined score in this thread.
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don't cheat! - the ghosts of old amigas will haunt you!

Dowload the game:
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Here you go.

Current Scores:
The current scores, updated every two days by the very generous sydney!

Remember that new members are always welcome to play and get down to blasting dudes!
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eksosrock · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:53 am Post subject:

The link to the game seem to be broken

starvingwriter82 · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:59 am Post subject:

I'm assuming that you would combine your score with your CPU partner's, so you're not fighting it for points?

The Dark Prince · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject:

I think that's a sensible way of doing things, just make sure that your piccy shows the score of both players and all will be good Smile

Link fixed...and I didn't expect anyone to notice so damn quickly Razz

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If you spell Kim Lemon backwards you get "Nomel Mik", it doesn't really mean anything but I just thought you should be aware of it

sydney · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:39 pm Post subject:

Here is my score after my third game.
Should greatly improve once my competition pro arrives Very Happy

Total score is 6290

Sanitarium · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:12 pm Post subject:

Here is my first score:

14,795
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Dastardly · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:31 pm Post subject:

As some of you may know Im the co-webmaster of The Chaos Regime (see my signature). At TCR kametyken and myself have had a 'Score Hunt' for the game Gods for the past few months now and some very impressive scores have been achieved. When I realized that The Chaos Engine was likely to be the first game in Lemons competition I had an idea.

After discussing it with kametyken, Kim and The Dark Prince it has been decided that the winner of this competition will also have their score displayed at TCR in the Chaos Engines very own brand new score hunt.

So if you win you will also get your name up 'in lights' there as well as here Smile

Good luck to all
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Thunderer · Groupie Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 109 Location: Macedonia

What the heck I might as well enter a measly score.

3,755

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sydney · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:19 am Post subject:

Thunderer, we are adding the score of the A.I. player in this game so your score is actually 5035. Very Happy

I have such a bad hangover that I actually had to use a calculator to work that out Sick

starvingwriter82 · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:22 am Post subject:

I finished the game with Navvie (34,220) and Preacher (14,880) for a total score of 49,100. I'd never attempted to play Chaos Engine all the way through without using the level codes (I never thought score was all that relevant) but I've played through the game dozens of times (although a bunch of those were on two player - level 4-4 was much harder on one player!). I didn't think I was going to make it - Preacher was dead and I only had one life left after the one I was on.

I'll post some screenshots later today - I just noticed it's 6:19 a.m. where I am... I'm about to go to a full day of classes on no sleep because of this game.... Looks like I can add another comment to the "what games caused you sleepless nights" post. Laughing

On a side note, anyone have good suggestions on a quality place to sign up so I can post the screen?

Edit: please no one beat my score, for the first time in my life I'm tired of the game, although it was a rewarding experience. (It's a lot more tense when you can't use level codes!) I don't want to have to play through it again, at least not in the next 3 weeks. Wink

Thunderer · Groupie Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 109 Location: Macedonia

sydney · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject:

Thunderer · Groupie Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 109 Location: Macedonia

Well I am not exactly resting on my laurels (what exactly is a laurel anyway)!

7475

I play like a real man. I don't need joysticks to satisfy me, I use my fingers, eeerrm I mean keyboards. Wink

Bit difficult controlling diagonal shots though!
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Sanitarium · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:39 pm Post subject:

I play this game with controller, but it's only D-Pad. Today I had four games of Chaos Engine, but didn't manage to improve my top score much, only few hundreds more Confused

So I don't even bother to post a pic, until I manage to get much more points..
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shteev · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject:

Never, ever played this before. Was never a fan of the Bitmap Brothers... err.. with the possible exception of 2 Speedballs...

Something appears to have gone awry with my screenshot, tho:

4,610

I hate the way it's MOSTLY linear... you keep getting to intersections, and you KNOW that one way is a dead end with stuff in it and the other is the way to go, but I ALWAYS end up going the right way, which means I have to go back on myself to pick the stuff up, and then go back on myself again to set off again... until the next intersection...
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