Frobot
July 6th, 2009
Frobot by Kyle Gray. Play as Frobot, in this funk-themed arena shooter. Shoot business men to transform them into solid-gold dancers, and make yourself stronger. Based on the classic arcade game, Robotron – control Frobot using the keyboard and mouse.
Download it to play on your PC (recommended): HERE
Play it on your web-browser: HERE
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32 Comments, Comment or Ping
hey
this game is awesome
July 7th, 2009
I really like this! It’s surprisingly hard to find a good Robotron-style game, but this fits the bill.
It does seem to slow down quite a bit on my old Pentium 4, though.
July 7th, 2009
I also really like the idea that your enemies become the guys you’re trying to save… and your source of power. It’s a great idea, executed very well here.
July 7th, 2009
Link to the PC exe is broken. Should be http://experimentalgameplay.com/newgames/Frobot.exe
July 7th, 2009
Thanks – fixed!
July 7th, 2009
Hi Hydra – how far did you manage to get? Most people I tested it on didn’t get past round 3.
July 7th, 2009
Round 6 no problem
July 8th, 2009
I got to level 23 with 6 lives left and a score of 947,100. I gave up. Also the few times I actually died it made the music start stacking.
Great game though. I’d give it four stars.
July 8th, 2009
awesome, 9/10 keep on going
and yeah easy to get past round 3
July 8th, 2009
its really awesome! but i have to say i play it mostly to finish rounds and listen the winning music :P
can you tell which is that song? i want to keep listening to it once and again and again.
for me its the best of this new series by now ;) lets see whats petri is preparing but… great job anyways :)
July 9th, 2009
Fun game! I’d really like to know if there’s a full version of that music too!
July 10th, 2009
love the game.
but it didn’t feel so experimental too be honest
July 11th, 2009
Thanks all – in terms of the music, I don’t know remember where it came from exactly – possibly somewhere on archive.org – they have a lot of Creative Commons music.
As for the other – well, this month’s theme was Unexperimental Shooter – it don’t get much more unexperimental than Robotron!
July 12th, 2009
Very cool gameplay – it gets quite hard in the later rounds when, after dying, you lose so much of your acquired power. Love the sounds, fit the bill nicely!
July 13th, 2009
Completely worth playing, if only to get the awesome dancing disco finale at the end of each level.
And par for the course, music selection never fails to amaze me Mr. Gray.
July 17th, 2009
Thanks Loel! I figured it was only a matter of time before you’d find us here.
July 18th, 2009
Very nice game indeed and it’s not too hard at all =D (I’m quite the fan of SHMUPS though, so that makes me kind of used to bullet-dodging and rapid gameplay).
The game doesn’t bore too easily because of the nice variety of enemies, the only thing that bothered me a bit is that at power-level 7 the power bar seems to get stuck at around 9/10′th of the bar and it just stays like that untill u die. I havent seen anyone else make this remark, so perhaps it’s just my comp.
Keep up the good work man!
July 18th, 2009
Yeah, that’s totally busted. I wanted to fix that, but it was either do that or get in SFX. Next time!
July 18th, 2009
This was brilliant- so much fun. I think it had a great concept that was executed simply and beautifully.
August 30th, 2009
Nice little shooting game. It’s really cool.
I didn’t play it for too long though, since I pretty fast reached a point were nothing new happend and killing the same enemies over and over again got boring. I’d give it a 3.3/5
September 10th, 2009
paano ba gamitin ito napagod pa ako
October 13th, 2009
nice game, but ignoring clicks when the fps goes down is pretty fail … cannot shoot when there is too many people onscreen…
March 30th, 2010
Win music is K-Jee MFSB
July 2nd, 2010
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