great asteroids shooter with lots of variety contents.
but one thing i don't like is that my ship has a mouse-aimed turret which is very odd for a space ship. in the trailer the ship fires bullet on its direction like asteroids and i expected the same thing in the game. can you add a option for disabling that turret ?

I really love this game. The effort you took to make it is very noticeable. The variety of enemies makes this game a joy to play, and I like how you added allies to it. Most of the games have the player battle it out all by themselves. I disagree with the idea of making it be for sale, although I do agree that you should gain money out of this work. I would suggest using Patreon or some donation type site. That way people can donate to help you make improvements without necessarily having to pay for the game. All in all, very awesome, keep up the good work and thanks

For joy stick support just download joytokey. It can turn your joystick commands into keystrokes.

I am about to play your game again since it has been a few years since I played it. I think you should have released this game on steam or something. I would have paid for it. Anyways great game. I will be back with a new review since I think you have added more items since my last run through.

Great work and I really enjoyed the game! (and I want to thank you for the graphic option) I went through stage1-11 in normal twice, and I have a point I'd like to suggest you;

-I think the full customized firepower of the 'Primary shot' is too low. The 'Squads' and 'Missiles' are great, only the primary shot takes too much time to make enough kills. Maybe it's because the 'unstable-bolts' are too weak; it should deal more damage and have higher chances (60% in level3). Or maybe it's because the 'phased-bolts' does not increase damage, good to kill small guys but bad to kill large ships; so it takes too much time to blow up enemies with both heavy shields & armor.

I know by using 5 'dimensional-ghost' copies you gain 6 times of firepower, but you can also use missiles at the same time anyway, and most the shots does not hit when the target has turrets on in it. You have to destroy the turrets first. Don't forget you need 13 extra points to get the 'dimensional-ghost' !

Hope this feedback helps.

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Is there any chance for joystick support? I feel that this would be much better than WSAD. Joystick for movement, mouse for weapon.

Fortunally for me, the ZIP work fine :)
There are certainly a glitch in CHUNK file ;)

Thi beta99 is just very cool, and gfx an music' just terrific :)

What is your dev tools ?
thx !

Argh. :)
You game is awesome.
Juste a note : After passing the Winsdows Installer, I got the following error, juste after startup loading step :
'Unable to load texture : boss-bladestar.png'
Here is the log :

HGE Started..

HGE version: 1.80
Date: 14.08.2014, 17:52:03

Application: Space Chunks II
OS: Windows 6.1.7601
Memory: 4194303K total, 4194303K free

D3D Driver: nvd3dum.dll
Description: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Version: 9.18.13.1106
Mode: 1680 x 1050 x X8R8G8B8

Sound Device: Haut-parleurs (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Sample rate: 44100

Init done.

Loading...
Starting...
Can't load resource: boss-bladestar.png

Finishing..
The End.

Fabolus game, I already recomended it to my friends, any chance to see Space Chunks 3 one day ?

I would love to see Space Chuncks 3 with 2 player option or even 1 to 8 (hostile on cooperative mode, maybee one player could choose the Chunks Lord ships) players, or maybe at the feature to this version and call it Space Chunks 2.5.

Hi George,

Awesome game! It's robbed me of quite a few hours.

Here's a few suggestions:

1. The lives system doesn't work well with the current saving system. Lives are carried over from level to level, but your progress is saved automatically in one slot (old saves are automatically overwritten as you progress).

This means that if your lives are running down as you advance, you reach a point where you stuck trying to pass a high level with, say, just one life. You can't go back - the only way to improve your situation is to start a whole new game. Obviously, that's a pain.

I don't really see the need for lives to be carried over from level to level, anyway. That kind of system better suits games where the objective is to obtain a high score (e.g. asteroids), not progress through levels. Have you considered just giving the player a set number of lives to pass each level?

2. The saving system works well in the lower levels but not in the later levels. A lower level might take ten minutes to complete. If the player dies on the boss, the punishment is having to repeat ten minutes of battle. The latter levels can take 40 minutes just to get up to the boss. If the player then dies, the punishment - having to repeat the last 40 minutes - is quite excessive. At that point, I think the player would sooner shut off the game than retry the level.

3. The double-tap/double-click input method isn't working well when the frame rate slows down. This is mainly a problem in level 11, where there are more than a hundred ships flying at once (stressing the system) and the only way to survive is to use boost all the time. It's a pain dying just because the game doesn't recognise an input command. That said, I'm not sure how you can address this if you're input sampling is tied to the frame rate.

4. A skirmish/sandbox mode. Playing through the missions is fun, but there's not much flexibility or replay value there. The game seems suited to a mode that allows the pl

Please Put lan mode

thank you hope you can put up with lan mode soon

I liked the version 0.98 in the future may put a version online or lan?

Before I noticed a new version was out, I almost certainly played v0.98 beta and that ran without any problems, so...yes :)

Hi with the last version I have some serious lags in level 11 with like 100 fighters shooting at me...somehow it drops my GPU usage. I'm running it on Core i5 3,4 GHz and nVidia GTX560 Ti and everywhere else it's nicely smooth on fullHD.

You should put this game up on steam.

your's sincerely The Three Gremlins

More levels please ! Unbelievable how you made so a fast game with so many objects at the same time. Very nice grafix and gameplay too.
Works on my Pentium 4 / 3 Ghz good in lower screen resolution.
Very big respect !

Amazing game. I'm thinking of doing a review/interview about the game to post on my blog. Would you be interested in getting some promotion for it?

Also, will it be updated again/any new game ideas or is this your baby for now?

Hi I absolutly fall in love with this game! There will be an endless survival mode?

Hey, I've played the first Space Chunks and I loved it, and I was wondering if you were ever going to port the games to Mac... I haven't played Space Chunks I in 5 years, but I have a Mac now and can't play one of my most favorite games of all time.

hey mate thanks for the awesome game, i've been playing on easy after my attempt at normal being terrible and well i don't think i can stop because i finished level 11 and i'm back to 1. the problem is everything is still as weak as it was before.

i absolutely love buffing up my wingmates, they're the only thing that got me through level 11 lol that is freakin insane! one problem on that level is i didn't see any drops from enemies... or anywhere for that matter.

the one boss that was a real let down was the overmind on 10, by that time i had every wingmate upgrade and they smashed him to chunks in less than a minute! he didn't attack at all!

all in all the game is so fun, i'll see if i can get 1 million before i decide to kill myself huh? :-)

very nice game. I'm really enjoying it. I love, love all the power-ups.
I see in some of your earlier comments that there will be significant changes to the upgrades. Still, I thought I'd leave my thoughts. At the higher tiers each path is really powerful. Maxing out all the missile abilities is lethal. But so is maxing out all the blaster abilities. That lets you just cut through the enemies. So is maxing out the fighter abilities. So, while some abilities are extremely powerful, I don't feel like any of them is particularly over-powered relative to the others.
I did find blaster upgrades a bit boring, though. I was pretty excited about them, but they're all (except turret) just ways of increasing damage. Which is fine, I guess, but it would be nice if there were at least a cosmetic difference with the upgrades so that it seems like you're getting a cool new gun.

Potential bugs: One star of assimilator didn't seem to do anything. Two stars, on the other hand let me construct an army of about fifteen small enemy ships.There didn't seem to be a unit cap. Then, three stars seemed to be acting a bit funny. It didn't consistently assimilate medium sized enemies (as far as I could tell). Sometimes they would turn invisible and little 'health' icons would appear around them and they'd refuse to be assimilated.

Also, I'm not sure if mine-defense is working properly at one star. A beam went out, but if I flew too near the mind, it still blew up. It didn't seem to deactivate it for any time at all, or maybe only half a second.

Anyway, great work!!

Hi, first of all thanks for the great game, as a dev myself, I can see all the work and ideas behind this and the result rocks. Now some points:

- why not add an option to view high scores on any other ocassion than death? I've got saved game on lvl 55 and I don't want to waste my score just to view how others are doing...
- the bosses are imbalanced, IMO... the summoner first time around is almost guaranteed to kill you, while the level 10 boss is a joke. Level 11 boss is just long and tiresome shooting back and forth, it could use some more action than standing on spot and firing away at it.
- playing second time around (and third and fourth and so on) is a piece of cake - there could be a difficulty increase and also something to reward you, like unique skills etc :)
- after roughly player level 35, it's becoming way too hard to get more skill points (one playthrough only nets about 2-3 points)
-skills of the same tier are very imbalanced. After upgrading all rocket skills, there isn't much use of getting anything else (save for the level 11... as you can imagine :) )

Still a pretty damn good game, I'd be even happy to help improve it if I knew a way. Feel free to mail me.

Also another potential bug - the heavy fighter upgrade overlaps with the frigate upgrade. So when you have the heavy fighter escort upgrade it maxes at four fighters. If you also buy max frigate you get 3 heavy fighters, the frigate, and 2 small fighters. So perhaps the fighters being converted to frigate should come from the end of the fighter list instead of the beginning? Otherwise if you bought one heavy fighter it would be completely wasted.

Great game! One bug I found - If you have the assimilate ability the Monstrosity boss bugs out. Your mind control ray takes over pieces of the tentacles, then the base itself vanishes and the tentacles spread out over a wide area. Assimilate also will take over some of the early stage bosses if you wrap around, resulting in a trivial fight and no bonuses for winning since the boss is now on your side.

Also with regards to the difficulty factor - the monstrosity is way more difficult than the following bosses. I'd recommend bumping it back to wave 9.

*Addictive* So well accomplished! I really congratulate you for this game. I've enjoyed (and will keep enjoying it) a lot.

Feedback... feedback... let me see:

- Cooperative play, in some way, would be so incredible awesome that the game would make it to the Moon.

- The Bonus Selection... .There is much to balance, and some powers just lose relevance on the final stages of the game, IMHO.

- You should make money with this, or if you want not, open it up a bit so there could be fan made mods/add ons. I'm thinking of textures, enemies, missions here.

Well, cheers and thanks again.-

Great game! I love the interface, and gameplay mechanics. The bosses are great, and the atmosphere is awe striking!

You should have a mailing list for notification of new versions. I can't wait to see how you improve this already great game!

I guess they aren't 'completely' helpless, but they are boring to fight IMO. Tractor beams are so annoying that I take the immunity perk ASAP ;) Not a criticism, but they make these huge unarmed ships even more of a pushover.

Favorite bosses: The blade guy and the many arms guy. Though the many arms guy respawned an arm as soon as it was destroyed which was annoying. Actually, all spawning ships seemed to respawn their minions as soon as they were destroyed.

All of the quotes are great! They add some real personality to the ships.

Thanks for all your hard work! I hope you charge money for this when you are done!

Awesome game! Only thing I can't figure out is why it's free ;)

<spoilers>
Issues with the game:

At the end it wraps around to the beginning, but it doesn't seem to be any harder the second time around. Maybe just end the game instead or make it harder somehow? Also the tool tips start to display again on second play thru.

Super large ship shields seemed to lag my computer when they were hit too many times. When the shields went down everything was fine again. Only happened once I had Dimensional Ghosts.

Some ships take too long to destroy once all of their guns are blown up, just shooting at a helpless enemy for 30 seconds isn't fun.

Overmind just seemed to explode... :( Was the idea that it turned you against your own kind?

What does 'Blah Blah' do?
</spoilers>

Looks very promising! Any thoughts of bringing it to Mac?

As im space sim genre lover i would say this game is prety good,also there could be some system updgrades, but to sum up its great game to pass time in booring days :)

Very nice game.
It could need some more levels, but otherwise its really cool.

Awesome game!

Awesome, very fun, addictive.
Add more enemy types, it will be cool.

Great game.
Thanks for making it (and for free too!)
Cheers!

Fun game. Any chance of 'Robotron' type controls like Geometry Wars, Beat Hazard, etc?

This is an awesome game that I can recommend to anyone.

I like the way the game has a combination of upgrades and strategy but still lets you blow things up.

much appreciated.
Your work was not for nothing.

Dear Scott,

saving is only allowed during powerup selection screen after each stage.

Best regards & happy hunting,
Z.J.

Pretty fun game.

Easy to play
Pretty addictive
Bosses and Power ups are cool.

Controls are a bit hard to get used to... I guess it cause I'm used to Super Stardust Controls on the PS3.

It wouldn't let me save =(

game:
- cool game for 'short game session'
- becomes addictive fast ;-)
- easy learning curve
- nice power-up features
- different enemies need different tactics - great!

tech:
- small footprint
- runs smoothly without crashes on Pentium-M 1 GHz (notebook)

wish list:
- portable version?
- smaller asteroid fragments of enemy stations should also contain goodies (making it more wothful shooting them..)

Many thanks for this great game!

1st impressions, I really like the clean/unfussy nature of this - a quick install, game loads quickly, menu/option selection are swift and responsive.

Video/desktop mode handling is refreshingly simple. There's a lot of detail and work put into the action/effects. The gfx are rich. The soundFx are good though the hi-energy 'metal' themed music got a bit too much quite quickly.

Excellent, and a great advert for HGE.

I am amazed that this thing is free.
I really like the game.

My main gripe would be that a missle usually kills you in 1 hit even with near perfect health.

i like this game , keep up the great work