Gaming Captain Forever

[River Crab]

Has anyone here played the Captain games?

If you've never heard of them, they're a series of indie vector space shooting games by Farbs, with the main gameplay element of building a ship and destroying enemies to take their parts (the exception to this being Captain Impostor, in which you clone entire ships).
The first game, Captain Forever, is free. By paying to become a supporter you get access to all its sequels, and the current alpha of the newest game, Captain Jameson. I highly recommend it, it's a very good indie game. :thumbup:

You can play Forever here.

Also, go ahead and share your ships! This is my current one in Captain Jameson alpha 0.5, which I've used to find the three beacons:

Jameson has no export feature, but Forever and Successor allow you to export your ships with BBcode (X key).

 

[Pyromaniac605]

Wow, I suck at this. Tons of fun though, thanks for sharing! :thumbup:

 

[Spacethingy]

Cool. I remember finding something like this before but sadly its sequels went down the TD line. Thanks!

 

[jedidia]

A little too nervous for me. You dn't really get the time to contemlate your ships layout...

 

[Pyromaniac605]

A little too nervous for me. You dn't really get the time to contemlate your ships layout...

Agreed, whenever I destroyed a ship with some good parts I hurried to put them on as symmetrically as possible before I started getting attacked again. :lol:

 

[River Crab]

A little too nervous for me. You dn't really get the time to contemlate your ships layout...

I've found that a good strategy is to create a ship with a flat or concave front, and scoop up the parts and get away to safety.

 

[Pipcard]

I've played this before (long time ago), but I wasn't very good at it.

I think I remember once getting to the part of the game with the Kilo-class parts (parts are named after the NATO phonetic alphabet; Kilo is the highest). I defeated those "final bosses" but never really stuck around long enough to make a huge ship.

It now reminds me of station building in Orbiter (which I still have yet to try).

 

[River Crab]

Created this monster in Sucessor. It has 32 bubble shields packed into a tiny area, which make it pretty much impossible to penetrate except by multiple clones of itself. (It looks like it's made out of random colours but it's actually just Kilo and Juliet.)

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Pilot this vessel (Supporters only)

 

[mojoey]

I HAVE ENOUGH addictions darnit!!!
after five minutes :S
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Pilot this vessel

 

[River Crab]

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