Popa: Invasion if the Green Things from Ickubackal
Release type: Freeware
Release date: June 27, 1996
Levels: 20
Author: Matthew Saul
Website: Chronically Unemployed
Related games: ?
Another surprisingly rare genre for Game-Maker is the single-screen puzzle-platformer. There are several attempts at single-screen games or single-screen segments within a broader game design, but these are more likely to be a vehicle for special effects, like simulated parallax scrolling or sprite scaling, than as traditional design.
Story
Once upon a time in a solar system far far away from ours were two planets. One planet was better equipped for natural life.
That planet was named Papelimous after its kind, the papelimons.
Then there was the other planet,which was closer to the sun which was named Ickubackal after the green aliens that inhabited it. The green aliens eventually settled into other solar systems, but eventually they became greedy and now want to blow up Papelimous, the planet of the first race, for a movie they are going to shoot.
Your job as Papelimon Popa is to destroy the energy core on the planet Ickubackal, which the green aliens were going to use to destroy your planet. It's going to be tricky though. The caves are puzzling to get through...
Instructions
On numerical keypad:
- 7 - Jump left
- 8 -
- 9 - Jump right
- 4 - Left
- 6 - Right
- 2 - Down (Duck)
- . - Shoot left
- / - Shoot right
- Spacebar - Shoot up (Must get the red card first)
Note: Your vertical shooting power is stronger than your horizontal shooting power. However it is limited.
You will find hints as you play the game.
Credits
By: Matthew Saul
Music: Generic, royalty-free CMF music files.
Background
Matthew Saul:
- Welcome. This is another platform game I made with Game-Maker. Don't expect to just sit back in blast though. This game requires lots of thinking (once you get to the later levels). It has SoundBlaster music and 256-color graphics. Download it today!
- Popa is another one of my Game-Maker platform games. This isn't just a blast 'em silly game though. You have to make chain reactions to get the bad guys gone (and/or get the keys to beat the levels). Yes, this does have a master puzzle and there is an exciting story (Well, not that exciting). Why not Download it today!
Links
Downloads
- Popa (209 kB)
