Abduction!
I have no fingers, yet am able to pilot a flying saucer. Hah! Beat that, you with opposable digits!
Abduction!, brought to you by Oddity Games, is an arcade-style, 2D browser-based game.
You play a rabbit-eared alien piloting a flying saucer. The purpose of the game: abduct as many hillbillies and cows as you can within the time allotted. Once abducted they will be mulched up into the new alien delicacy, ‘Man in a Can.’
Gameplay
The controls are simple: use WASD or the arrow keys to move the ship across the map and press the left mouse button to turn on and turn off the abductor beam.
Watch out for the weapons flung by the hapless hillbillies below. If too many hit the spaceship, down it goes and all that hard work and hard-earned cash is lost.
Also watch out for the rocks. If you pick a rock up it can block the path into the mulcher and any humans picked up with it will be dropped harmlessly back to the ground. However, you can drop the rock onto people, sending giblets all over the place. Messy, but not to worry, pick the giblets up and they’ll go just fine in the can. A little bit of earth adds flavor.
Each human abducted gives you money. Use the money to upgrade the abilities of your ship (increase the beam speed or capacity, for example).
Ah, finally. A never-ending, renewable food source!
To progress to the next level you’ll need to perform a variety of tasks–a certain amount of abductions, money earned, even how many people you can spatter with rocks.
Upgrade your ship between missions. Make sure you're always harvesting at optimum.
The game is similar, but does get more challenging the further into it you get.
Technical
The graphics are sound. For some reason I’m reminded of the old Lemmings games, even though the gameplay is not even similar and the graphics are much better.
The best part of the game, I think, is the music. Much better than the typical electronic jangle that many indie java games have. It’s actually quite tuneful and moody.
There’s no multiplayer option for this game, and it’s hard to see how one could be incorporated, unless two spaceships were battling against each other for the most abductions.
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You’ve imagined what it’d be like to zoom around in a flying saucer abducting people, haven’t you? Yeah, thought so. Guess you’ll be wanting to play this game then, won’t you? Yeah, thought that’d be the case too. | ||||
Game: Abduction! | Developer: Oddity Games