The Good News, if you've noticed that sixty second shooter was crashing - it's not crashing anymore.
The Bad News is it's over quota and I don't know when Google is going to let me upgrade the billing - so even though you can play, you can't get on the leaderboards. (Until tomorrow when it resets - but then by the end of the day it'll probably be over quota again.)
(More Good News is I guess it's kinda popular?)
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I just submitted sixty second shooter to Indiecade, and they asked for an 'artist's statement' ... I don't really consider sixty second shooter 'art' but here's what I came up with:
sixty second shooter was intended to be the sort of game that rapidly induces a "Csikszentmihalyi flow state" - that state of mind where the player is focused on just the game and the rest of the world fades into the background - and also to cause frequent heart-racing adrenaline rushes, by mashing up the retro ‘twin stick’ (although sixty second shooter uses keyboard and mouse) arena shooter genre with the sixty-second time limit games popular on Facebook.
Like the hardcore shooters of yesteryear, repeated plays build player skill, reflexes and hand-eye coordination; but the strategy is not as simple as shooting anything that moves: understanding of the game mechanics are required to maximize your score. In fact, if you excel at the game’s strategy, you can keep the game in a slow-motion mode that ‘levels the playing field’ - so someone with mediocre hand-eye coordination and reflexes (like myself) can still earn a top spot on the leaderboard.
sixty second shooter was also intended to be a perfect low-friction 'coffee break' game; a player with only a few minutes of spare time can open their browser and, after a nearly instantaneous load time, are playing a short game that they know will be done before their next appointment. They can get in, improve their standing on the leaderboards, and get out.
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So Joseph7099 isn't just a one-hit wonder. I don't know how he does it.
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This time I have no excuse for being late, but last week it was jumsimbab87 with 4757973 points - followed by joseph7099 with 3110631.
This week jumsimbab87 doesn't seem to have entered the arena yet - but it looks like joseph7099 already has a lock with (*&^ing 6637309 points! I believe it was Keanu Reeves who once said, "Woah."
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What with President's Day and my wife's birthday totally spaced taking a screenshot of the leaderboards yesterday, but the champion was joseph7099 with 2878781. (I came in second, with my personal best score ever of 2755228.)
And the competition is already crazy this week. I haven't seen scores over 3 million since the last big game-mechanic-tuning-change, but this week we've got 3 and 4 million!
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justinwyma is this week's world champion!
Man, I didn't even place this week...
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jumsimbab87 is back, reclaiming the championship title.
Notice those green arrows? You can scroll through the leaderboards now. I had to implement that just so I could take a screenshot of the top spot, because the competition has really picked up, and this was the best I could do this week.
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I fairly regularly check the Chrome Web Store to see how high sixty second shooter is in the listings. This is the first time I've seen it like this:
In the large size! Just last weekend, with help from Cathy on the design, I redid my logo art. Looks like it's paid off - there must be an actual human at Google who judges whether these tiles are worthy.
Also, following advice from Lars Doucet (and cribbing extensively from his press release of Defender's Quest) recently did a press release on gamespress.com, a place where anyone can do a free press release about their game. It almost immediately got duplicated on Gamasutra and some other sites, and I saw an immediate spike in website activity and installs. Before that, I'd been cold-calling various game websites and been getting mostly ignored, so. This is something.
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