Gradle-Unison

By: ithamore

On: October 9th, 2008

With Kenta Cho in mind, I offer you Gradle-Unison (a game from one who seems to have been inspired by and references Kenta Cho). If you’ve been yearning for an action oriented mouse clicking game, Isshiki’s Gradle-Unison might do it for you. Although Isshiki is probably better known for his shmups (the genre for which he has released most of his games), GU is more of an anti-shmup with bullet hell leanings.

In GU you control a vehicle that will accelerate toward your clicks to release an explosion around your ship to destroy “bullets” emitted from enemy bases. The greater the distance the vehicle travels across the playing field the larger the explosion.

Each round has a time goal to reach before the next round begins. After the first round, a base is added with some variation for the new round until reaching four bases. From there, the variety continues to evolve with each phase. (I’m just talking from experience, since I have no idea what the upper limit is on phases and bases: there might be more to it.)

Also, GU works well on Widows computers that aren’t setup to support non-Unicode Japanese text, and all of the in-game text is in English. It also tends to be a quick, short, intense game.

Posted in Action, Doujin, Freeware, Shoot-em-ups | Tags: Isshiki

Trotim

Kento Cho?
Mischief Maker

Kinda reminds me of Every Extend.
permanent

This displays wrong on my 1920×1200 monitor. It does some 4:3 resolution but the edges of the gamescreen are cropped. Anyone else? I’ve encountered another gamemaker game with the same problem but I don’t remember what it was.
http://tigsource.com ithamore

@Mischief Maker

EE is a good comparison, and GU uses warp distances instead of explosion chains to achieve similar gameplay. I wish I had noticed this before. Thanks.

@permanent

The game was programmed in D (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/overview.html), and it includes a source folder named “src”, so you might be able to figure out a solution to your problem from there. This game is also two years old, so there might be some legacy issues.a
sereneworx

Good think it suppports all window’s computers! Women with dead husbands all around the world will be drowning their sorrows in Gradle Unison. Take that evil triangles!
sereneworx

And there it is, I made a typo in a comment mocking someone else type. This is a travesty.
sereneworx

And then I did it again.

Also, did I mention that this game is rather enjoyable to play. A good time waster, for sure.