Buzzy's Bad Day

[Sphinxter]

Brand X presents, "Buzzy's Bad Day", another solo effort by Linus Sphinx depicting the classic struggle for life and death in the garden of evil in this latest artistic shooter entry in his Return To The Arcade series. This time out you take the role of Buzzy, one big ugly bug with a bad attitude who woke up stuck to the bottom of someone's shoe on the wrong side of the botanical gardens carnivorous floral exhibit and bird aviary. You need to get home to get bizz-ay and ultimately preserve the species in a final climactic ending that could only be described as insect pornography unlocking the gateway to Buzzy's secret garden of love and an infinite number of levels.

NOTE: This game is not rated. Scenes and subject matter depicted may be considered offensive and highly unsuitable for larvae in the pre-pupae stage.

unzip BuzzysBadDay-1.0.zip -d /mnt/sd/Game
with the paths and it's BuzzysBadDay.gpe in the BuzzysBadDay directory

Lots more screenshots here

 

[Gruntfuggly]

Wow - looks like you've put some effort into that - will try this tonight!

 

[Sphinxter]

I was pretty much bed ridden and heavily sedated for most of the development, not real sure if I did or not. Before the flu and pneumonia it was going to be a sea dragon clone.

 

[plopperz]

Aaah, so that's where your avatar came from

Looks good, I'm downloading now

 

[senquack]

Pretty fun, I kept getting eaten by birds but will practice more after work.

 

[Sphinxter]

Aaah, so that's where your avatar came from

Looks good, I'm downloading now

Ah damn it. No wonder people have been calling me an idiot, I have a tire iron and a collander for an avatar.

 

[Sphinxter]

Pretty fun, I kept getting eaten by birds but will practice more after work.

It's how far you travel between meals, Bird wants to see some up and down movement or some feeding, he loves a room rusher b-)

 

[jbrodack]

cool game but does buzzy have to be so big? his size combined with the bird that eats you if you stay too high makes this pretty frustrating at times.

with that said I did keep replaying over and over trying to get further

 

[Sphinxter]

Maybe, was asked at the start, "Does this game make my bug look big?". Thought about maybe doing three sizes for easy hard and !@#% me. I'd just finished Cow Suckers with it's zillion sprites and wanted to do something with very very little drawing so went with meejum. He's not quite as big as he looks, the wings, trunk, legs don't count and his collision zones are much smaller than his graphic. It's also a bit of a puzzle, many ways to travel, some not so obvious, some obvious yet fatal. I like those mean diagonals, like where you fly directly at the first venus fly trap shut it's mouth and then do a up but not too far and over before it recovers or you can try and hug the sky and blast the living crap out of everything knocking them down and hope you have room to bob down before the bird sees you or hugging the ground and blasting upward. I should do a video, I can really work that intro garden.

 

[jbrodack]

I'm a big fan of shmups so part of why the big sprite threw me off. if his hitzone is smaller than the graphic I just have to work a bit at finding it as with any shooter.

However, as for my other complaint with the bird taking you off in an instant death I think its still unfair. Should really be some kind of indicator for when you're in danger of being taken away by the bird.

still I do like the game and did notice the puzzle aspect of it. kind of reminds of the the situational puzzle style of the older oddworld games. its a precision game but the controls feel a bit too stiff at times. then again that was true of the oddworld games too.

 

[Alex.]

Thanks for including a Save Garden option! I'm currently battling the spider, made it bleed green and made a hole through the net, but have yet to fully avoid getting bitten... Awesome work Sphinxter, definitely one of the most original GP2X games in quite a while!

It is difficult, but not frustratingly difficult

 

[pferguso]

This game looks really fun! I can't wait to try it tonight! By the way Sphinxter, I love your nickname! It gives the impression that you're all MUSCLE!

 

[Sphinxter]

The bird should be very predictable, nothing random about it. Would it be a spoiler for anyone if I described in detail how the bird works? I think you might find the bird very fair if you knew the specifics.

 

[Unfathomable Depths]

Nice. Very hard - random flying was working for me until I met the spider...

 

[Sphinxter]

I got the idea of using spider web as boss battle while pressure washing my patio furniture after it had been stored all winter in a garden shed.

@pferguso
I unavoidably bore the moniker, "sphinxter boy", for several years after the release of "Wayne's World". When I first logged in Sphinx was already taken.