Anderfam Game Lab

Free games by a guy named Jim

shooters

Balloon Shoot

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As you might guess, Balloon Shoot is a game in which you shoot balloons. So I’m classifying it as a shooter, but it’s really just target practice. The balloons do not shoot back.

I made the game because I had some nice, colorful balloon popping animations courtesy of Robert Brooks at Game Developer Studio. Brooks is an artist who sells his original game graphics on his website, and also gives away a great many high-quality graphics, among them the set of popping balloons.

In fact, I ended up creating the entire game with freebies from Brooks. (I’ve bought some of his art, too, and will feature it in future games. But the balloons just spoke to me.)

The only graphic in the game that didn’t come from Robert Brooks is the bullet. I managed to draw that myself.

Update: This game can also be played on the Construct Arcade.

Wormhole Guardian

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My latest game is a throw-back, a vertical space shooter created in Construct 2, using graphics from the assets bundle I got with the program back in 2012. In fact, I used some of the same images and sounds in my 2012 game, Deep Space Patrol.

The premise in Wormhole Guardian is that you are the captain of a ship on sentry duty at a stellar portal (the wormhole), with orders to attack and delay any enemy ships attempting to transit the wormhole. You’re a speed-bump, not expected to survive. Your performance will be judged on the basis of how many enemy ships you destroy versus how many get by you, before you are destroyed.

The most important enemy ships to destroy are the red ones. They’re unarmed transports, just trying to get through the wormhole to attack the planets you are sworn to defend.

The game has three difficulty levels. It is smart-phone and tablet friendly, but the best way to play is on a computer with a keyboard.

Note that since my last blog post, I have added some other games to this website. You will find them on the Game List.

The Pumper

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Yes, it’s another simple shooter. I’m either on a roll, or in a rut.

In this one, the player is represented by an antiquated rail-gun that can only shoot straight up. That’s OK because the enemy is flying overhead and dropping bombs. The gun has great range and a high rate of fire. You should be able to destroy a lot of bombers. But they will keep coming, faster and faster. It’s the way of these things.

My goal was to create all of the graphics and sound effects from scratch, and still have a decent looking and sounding game.

Check out The Pumper.

 

Two space shooters

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The first two games I am uploading to this site are in the venerable category of “space shooter.” I created them seven years apart. They are both HTML 5 games, meaning that they will run in your web browser — at least if you have a modern version of Chrome or Firefox.

Deep Space Patrol (2012) was created with Construct 2, and is intended for desktop or laptop web browsers. It requires a mouse and/or keyboard to play, and the form factor is too squarish for a tablet or phone screen. I’ll probably rework this one to work on mobile devices. It has lots of action and good mechanics.

Voorom (2019) was created with Construct 3, and is mobile friendly. It uses touch controls, as well as mouse or keyboard. Its view-port fits nicely on a smart phone screen.