Paratrooper
* Paratrooper 1983 *
* Your Mission *
The year is 1983, you survived the onslaught of attacks brought on by invading paratroopers and jet bombers of original paratrooper game. Unfortunately for you, over the last year your enemies have made major technological advances in laser guided missiles.
Furthermore your base and its defences are just as crappy as they were before!
Do not allow enemy paratroopers to land on either side of your gun base. If four paratroopers land on one side of your base, they will blow you sky high. After you have survived the round of helicopters, watch out for the jet bombers. Every jet bomber has deadly accurate air to ground laser guided missiles. These missiles almost seem to enjoy screwing with you as they loop above your base, but once they decide to strike, they never miss.
Your gun turret will overheat if it's overused and your accuracy is poor, so maintain your accuracy to avoid overheating.
* Controls *
Two keys make the gun move:
<- counterclockwise
-> clockwise
spacebar fires shells
* Scoring *
HELICOPTER or JET 10 points
ENEMY PARATROOPER 5 points
MISSILE 30 points
Each shell you fire costs you one point.
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Install instructions
Paratrooper should run without hitch on Linux.
However on Windows and MacOS, you will need to override the default security policies.
Windows
Upon running the downloaded file, Microsoft Defender SmartScreen might warn you about running an application from an Unknown publisher. Click "More info" and then click on the "Run anyway" button.
MacOS
Upon trying to run the downloaded file, navigate to your "Security and Privacy" settings and specifically allow the game - as it has not been notarised with an Apple Developer Account. The Apple Developer Program costs $99 per annum. If enough people request this - I'll consider it. For now there is a work around.
Follow these steps: Attempt to run the game by clicking on paratrooper.dmg. Then goto: System Preferences -> Security and Privacy -> General tab -> Open Anyway
Comments
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I like the colors and explosion effect, it's like the enemy just disintegrates. Nice minimalist look.
Was it supposed to be possible to shoot the lil guys after they land? It says "don't let them land" but they just stand there until I get shot by one of the rockets. Will they suddenly attack later if I'd stayed alive longer..?
Thanks for sharing!
(played in browser)
Thanks for the feedback.
Once the paratroopers land - they hunker down until there's a group of four on one side to attack your base. Once they're in attack mode the helicopters stop coming but the jets keep bombarding your base. The difficulty of the game is skewed towards missiles - maybe something to tweak.
Do I need to press anything to start the wave? I can rotate and shoot, but not seeing any planes fly by.
Hmm, yeah that's a bug. If the game looses focus the wave resets. I'll see about fixing that. If you don't interrupt focus the helicopters and paratroopers should enter the scene. Thanks for the feedback though.
This is fixed now.