I've really been enjoying the new Binary Zoo game Mono. It's
frenzied Robotron-style gameplay with some beautiful æsthetic
and gameplay twists. The graphics are amazingly hypnagogic, lots of
tracers and bright colours. Simple, free, and quite fun.
The shooter genre is pretty
much dead in the commercial world (poor Rez), it's just not
the kind of game that lends itself to $20M budgets and fifty hours of
gameplay. But the homebrew shooter scene is making some awesome games.
See
also the BulletML games
at ABA
games, or ZUN's games.
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