High Score Challenge S9 - R2 - Proteans

[KarateEd]

Stardot high score challenge
Season Nine: Round Two
Proteans by Jeremy Grayson


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RULES
Round One starts at 9pm on Monday the 19th of February and ends at 9pm on Monday the 5th of March
The aim is to score as many points as possible
Post scores and screenshots/photographs in this thread
The rules are here
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DISK IMAGE
http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=297
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INSTRUCTIONS


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SCORING
Points will be awarded using the following formula.
points = (YS / BS * 50) + ((NOP - YP + 1) * (50 / NOP))
YS = Your Score
BS = Best Score
NOP = Number of Players
YP = Your Position
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HIGH SCORE TABLE



Link to Overall High Score Table...viewtopic.php?f=46&t=14413

Thanks to Galax for the Mode 7 fonts.

Oh no!!!...more Aliens on steroids....be careful out there...this really is out of this world....Ed ...........

[KarateEd]

This is just to get us started. I'm sure the Jools of the world will come along and show us how this is played.

Ed......

[JoolsH]

This is just to get us started. I'm sure the Jools of the world will come along and show us how this is played.

Well, let's have a go then

It's a bit hectic. I've played a lot worse games.

1,659

[FourthStone]

Hectic is the word, noticed the kill points seem to increase with levels.

Score: 1139

[richardtoohey]

I can't cope with the gap between C and B ... why couldn't he use Z and X like everybody else ...

792 so far, did a screenshot then pressed F12 in jsbeeb on the high score table ... doh

Can't remember ever having seen this game, it's not bad (not a classic, obviously, but certainly better than my non-existent attempts!)

[KarateEd]

Well, it is super hectic at times for sure, especially once you're near the end of a level....2202.........

Ed......

[KarateEd]

High Score Tables Updated......

Ed......

[barbarossa69]

Quick game at lunchtime...

[CMcDougall]

Never had this BITD, but did play a few times recently when got the tape.

Too fast with one baddy still to kill

they could of also made bullets yellow not blue so I can miss them better....

1,756

[barbarossa69]

Bit better

[chrisn]

I can't cope with the gap between C and B ... why couldn't he use Z and X like everybody else ...

It is a strange choice of controls... I'd never heard of this game before, but that's the great thing about this competition I got this score playing in jsbeeb, will have a go on real hardware next. My best so far: 1447

[JoolsH]

OK, I've got the hang of it now. Shoot yourself a nice hole in the middle of the aliens to give yourself breathing room, and let the aliens come to you. Just try to avoid messing up.

2,543

[richardtoohey]

try to avoid messing up

and try to avoid the alien bombs?

[FourthStone]

Creeping up, that last one of the wave always seems like pot luck to me

Score: 2128

[KarateEd]

High Score Tables Updated......

Ed......

[barbarossa69]

OK that's my high-score for the moment...

This is quite a frustrating game! Incidentally, I've remapped the keys on BeebEm to Z and X, and / to fire.
(Repeatedly pressing SHIFT was causing my PC to think I wanted to turn on sticky-keys...)

As the proteans vaguely move from left to right, I vaguely go the opposite way, from right to left. But yeah, the last couple on each level are a bit of a lottery...

[barbarossa69]

ARGH MUST STOP MAKING SILLY MISTAKES!

2887.

[barbarossa69]

Last one for today. 3085.

[JoolsH]

Got a bit further...

3,670

[KarateEd]

High Score Tables Updated......

Ed......

[KarateEd]

A HUGE increase in my score...... 2,222....

Ed......

[FourthStone]

Slightly better score (than Ed )

Seems to be a bug where sometimes after killing an enemy missiles keep hitting the same spot until you move somewhere else, can't work out if yet if score keeps going up, need an extra pair of eyes to investigate further.

Score: 2289

[barbarossa69]

Seems to be a bug where sometimes after killing an enemy missiles keep hitting the same spot until you move somewhere else, can't work out if yet if score keeps going up, need an extra pair of eyes to investigate further.

Yeah I've noticed that, it's quite annoying! As far as I can see the score doesn't increase though.

[FourthStone]

Slight better score, still struggle with the last alien of each wave, just got a bit lucky on this run.

Scoring for each alien appears to be a multiple of 3 points times the wave number.

Score: 2376

[KarateEd]

Slight better score

AND......still slightly better than Ed's score....hhrrrmphhh!!!

Ed......

[FourthStone]

Another slight improvement, made it to wave 8 this time. Had a lot more practice runs but hit reset in disgust then had a super lucky run...

Score: 3112

[KarateEd]

Just so you don't get too comfortable in your score FS, a small bump up..... just want you to know, I'm trying.... 2,508...

Ed......

[KarateEd]

High Score Tables Updated......

Ed......

[sydney]

1st few goes.

1790

Not sure about this one. It feels like a good game and I should love it but I feel a bit cheated every time I get killed by a ridiculously fast enemy.

[MatthewThompson]

Best score so far, not sure it will get any higher it might do. It's apretty decent game - reminds me a bit of Positron and one of the levels of Swoop, but I don't like the going mental bit of a few left at the end of the screen - makes it way too random and difficult. Other than that an interesting title - first time i've ever played it.

Nice and noisy too !