This game will self destruct in 10 minutes
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I’ve given Self Destruct a big update, fixing loads of problems that the sleep deprived contest version had. There are loads of fixes and new features (read about them here), but the biggest and coolest is an online highscore table! Hope to see some of you on it 
Phew. Time to get back to Ciellus, I think.
[Edit] The above link is for the regular online version of the game. Due to an oversight on my part it can only be played online! However, an offline version is now available here! At a later date a proper update is planned to fix the remaining issues with the game.
[Edit] Here’s a quick video of it in action:
and a screenshot:
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Great little shmup! Thanks for making it! I noticed a little typo in the readme…
“http://http://nanokostudio.deviantart.com/”
There’s two “http://”s.
Clearly, it’s a serious issue. >_<
Whoops
I’m uploading a minor change later on that should fix the occasional crash bug, as well as that issue 
Glad you liked it, anyway! Thanks for trying it out
hey – this is ace! only improvements I can think of would be the inclusion of joypad support (so I can play this on my media PC on a big screen) and looping the titlescreen music – at the moment it just goes silent at the end of the dubmood track.
superb stuff – I hope this wins!
Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it
I’ll keep both updates in mind if I do another update (right now I think I’d be pushing it given the the contest deadline is long overdue 
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I love shumps and I love Annabelle and her art, so this game is for me!
Nice stuff Terry
[...] created a video for Self Destruct, mostly to test out some stuff for the Ciellus [...]
Not sure if it’s a bug, but I was surprised to see that this game fails to run if you’re not connected to the interweb… It would be nice if there was an offline mode.
Er, sorry about that
I’ll try to include a fix when I put together the final version after the contest’s over. Honestly, the whole highscore mechanism was rushed, it could probably do with a total rewrite….
Thanks Terry – I’m really looking forward to the final post-compo version. Self Destruct gets my TIGS vote!
Thank you!
(Terry – can you please contact me when the final version is done? We’d like to review it in RGCD. heavystylus@-nospam-yahoo.co.uk – remove the -nospam- bit, obviously)
Sure, of course
Thank you very much!
Might be a couple of weeks though – I kinda want to wait until the results of the contest are out before I add anything. Shouldn’t be too long after that though!
Superb Terry! I played it until my fingers ached! Only suggestion I can make is an option for the user to configure the controls.
Graphics and gameplay are great!
Hah, thank you
I’ll see what I can do about the user configured controls!
Pity there’s no pause button.
Great game for such a size.
Wish every extra nuke collected could add more score.
Also, every extra Shield collected could increase the shield bar.(to a limit though.)
I don’t want to do anything at this point to throw off the balancing or scoring of the game. Would be unfair to the many people who’ve got obscenely high scores. Every nuke you collect does increase your score though!
Pause button shouldn’t be a problem, I’ll add it to the list
Thanks Terry! ‘Respect your comments. You try too hard sometimes. Why don’t you add a PayPal donate button on the sidebar? You never know…
Heh, thanks, but I’d feel a bit funny about taking donations
Hey Terry
I’ve put up the version i spoke about on tigsource with the source code , i hope thats cool ( my source not yours ) didn’t get very far before i ran out of steam but i did learn that i don’t want to write a game in flash
Don’t mind in the slightest
Hope you got something out of it, anyway!
Is highscore table hacked? 13 millions looks impossible.
Yeah, sorry – it’s a little annoying. The highscore table is quite easy to hack due to minimal security checking, but there’s not much I can do about it without updating the client side code and starting a new table…
All I can really do is remove the hacked scores when they appear
Fantastic!
I loved the game but all someone has to do is lower the priority of the process or run a heavy CPU consuming file in the background to slow down the game. I got 2,000,000 this way. The name is blank so remove it when you get a chance. I want a cheat free record on the list.
Yeah, it’s a shame
There’s really not a whole lot I can do about that at this stage. If I ever get around to that update I’ll look into it, though!
Maybe you could make the online version have a pause feature that activates when the frame rate reaches a specific low. That way getting a high score in this way would take forever. I would leave the offline version the same just in case some people do have weak CPUs and wanna enjoy the game without pauses.
Just an idea.
VERY fast for me, but really fun. I suck at shoot-’em-ups, but I still like playing them (farthest I’ve made it so far is around wave 30). This one should keep me well occupied for a while.
Any chance of a mac version?
It runs fine in vmware; but it would be cool if it went native.
Amazing game, highly addictive. Unfortunately in full screen mode I get a screen flicker on a desktop with a HD 3870 X2. Any suggestions.
Feck, that’s quite a high resolution… No suggestions whatsoever, haven’t a clue! Sorry
No worries about the screen flicker, I’ll let you know if I figure it out. All of your work is amazing. Thanks again!
Is there a way to play this with a gamepad? If not, guess I’ll just have to suck it up and play it like a man!
Either XPadder or Joy2Key should allow you do use any gamepad you want with this!
[...] Twat was part inspired by Terry’s previous shooter “Self Destruct” and part a reactionary assault after increasing frustration with the grind of Everyday [...]
I did an episode of my show on this game. Just thought you might get a kick out of it. I love the game. Great job.
Self Destruct Episode of Tiger Claw TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAYijYUKQkI
Thx for pointing out joy2key, my wireless keybord just shows its weakness with your game Terry.
I don’t score over 450k but all I can say is that it’s a very addictive game, dubmood’s (rulez!) tunes fitting the game , making me double press to play again and again without a breack !!!! Congrats.
ah ….
(((((
Using joy2key is seen as cheating by the game
Anyway finally managed to complete the 250 waves and entering hiscore, my new nickname will be ACHEAT
I found out about this game last night and have not stopped playing it since. Incredibly fun game. The only problem I have is that I’m extremely used to using WASD to move my character in PC games, so using the arrow keys makes me move in the opposite direction, which is making me die a lot lol.
Fantastic game, but could you please provide the option to let us move the spaceship with WASD?? we can use wasd for moving and the arrow keys for bombs, etc.
What a great game. Doesn’t feel like any shmup I have ever seen before, and I’ve been playing a lot of them lately, mainly bullet hells. If you ever felt like developing a sequel that shared some of the basic mechanics and pace with this, I’d be happy to pay for it. The mechanics are so open-ended, it seems like it would be easy to just pour new content in.
I got my first full run today, but at 2.4M points, it fell way short of my previous 2.8M point run (21th on hi-score list) to wave 249.
For the folks trying to use a 360 pad/stick: assigning buttons in xpadder works perfectly. My best runs are all keyboard, though.
yes! number one!
OMG SO HARD