Crystal Wave and Sky Scream

By: Derek Yu

On: November 15th, 2010

[This is a guest post by ortoslon.]

Johnny B. of Golden Beast Studios (Anyman, Techno-Drone Alliance) has started a rapid development project called Lazy Brain Games. His goal is to release one game per week, restricted to NES graphics and 8-bit sounds. So far he’s made two little shmups controlled with WASD+mouse.

Crystal Wave is a score-based arena shooter that plays a lot like JW’s Coptra: it goes from easy to crazy in thirty seconds as enemies come from all directions. Score mostly comes in the form of large gems that fly randomly across the screen. The game has a small online highscore table, currently occupied by yours truly.

Sky Scream is a vertical shooter inspired by Sin and Punishment, Contra and Megaman. It takes about four minutes to beat the game but it’s hard enough that you won’t reach the end on your first try. The colorful background looks great in motion:

Posted in Action, Shoot-em-ups, Videos, Windows | Tags: JohnnyB

mrpodunkian

ortoslon is one of the best indie games players in the world and he is either an autistic savant or a indie game playing robot programmed to indiscriminately introduce people to small high score based indie games. the reason i say he's an autistic savant or a robot is because his sense of humor is terrible. however, i suspect this may be the result of him being russian.

anyways, subscribe to his youtube channel, play these games.
http://ortoslon.makgam.com ortoslon

people who talk to me in russian think better of my sense of humor (though they still say it's weird). but yeah, i'm not a robot, what's left
http://twitter.com/HeroOfTheFSA Joseph Gibson

i'm better than ortoslon at a game and i'm physically stronger and more handsome to boot
Guess-T

All robots say that.
http://ortoslon.makgam.com ortoslon

no shit
Hair_bro

Man, that hair animation rules
ZombiePixel

They are likely fun to play but Sky Scream graphics are pure eye-rape.
Squeam

Nice visuals! *pukes guts*
http://nuclearheart.com/ György Straub

It's nice to see smaller scale (but still polished) games up. However, “The colorful background looks great in motion” has got to be the sense of humour bit.
Blodyavenger

Very nice small adicting games! I hope more will keep comming :)
By the way, are (online) highscores on the web somewhere or just in game?
Brandon

Hmmm the graphics are neat, but the nes definitely can't do most of that!