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If "Attack of the Mutant Killer Bingo Wings!" was available on cassette for the C64, Spectrum and Amstrad this is what the inlay would say:

The Earth is a noisy planet. For decades a vast array of signals have been carelessly spreading from our world into the ether. We're about to find out that other worlds are listening...and in a terrible coincidence one planet has taken offence at the liberties being taken with it's deities.

The denizens of Bingonia have for centuries worshipped their many and varied Gods; Kelly's Eye, One Little Duck and Snakes Alive amongst others. So when the systems monitoring the skies of Bingonia began picking up signals from a small world at the outer reaches of the galaxy, indicating that the intricate numerology behind the Bingonian beliefs were being used as the basis for a form of primitive gambling, there was only one course of action available; the Bingonians dispatched their elite fighting force, the Bingo Wings, to destroy the Earth - and now only you stand in the Bingonians way!

Destroy the Bingo Wings, collect the Bingo Balls of Doom and break the code to destroy the Bingonian battleships!

EYES DOWN!

1 player only
Flash version 9 or above required


I've been working on AotMKBW! for a little while now, it's kind of Galaga meets Bingo in Flash form with a distinctly retro flavour.

I'd really appreciate any feedback you're prepared to give and I'm particularly interested to hear comments on difficulty.

Please find the game here:

http://www.buzzardgames.com/attack_of_the_mutant_killer_bingo_wings/ (http://www.buzzardgames.com/attack_of_the_mutant_killer_bingo_wings/)

Thanks for looking!

PS here's some screenies:

(http://www.buzzardgames.com/images/game/9/screen1.gif) (http://www.buzzardgames.com/attack_of_the_mutant_killer_bingo_wings/)

(http://www.buzzardgames.com/images/game/9/screen2.gif) (http://www.buzzardgames.com/attack_of_the_mutant_killer_bingo_wings/)

A pretty fun game.  I thought the bingo mechanic was pretty good, although I found the instructions to be a bit confusing, so it took me a while to figure out what I was doing.

Yeah, the bingo system is sweet. Pretty brutal though, when you're going for a specific number.

Thanks for your comments :)

I have to admit I've struggled with trying to make the instructions succinct enough that people will read them but detailed enough to explain what to do.

I guess I could implement either an animated tutorial or some sort of hand-holding tutorial level as I'm aware that with Flash games it's very likely that players may not read the instructions, become frustrated very quickly when they're stuck on level one and move onto the next available Flash game...  :concerned:

To be honest the prospect of coding either doesn't exactly fill me with excitement but I think that might be the most viable solution - do you think this would help?

Before I give my thoughts, I have a question.

Is it your intended strategy that in order to properly play the game to the highest potential, you are actually trying to:


rather than


I'm wondering about the intended strategy.

Wierd, my old game has been dug up by a bingo spam attack...thanks for playing though :)

It's pretty impossible to stop every bingo ball from dropping off the bottom but when they do it's best that they don't add up to numbers on the enemy bingo card.  However, when I've played I don't really take much notice as I'm so busy trying to add up numbers on my own card.

A fun game.

I did find the sound effect a bit loud. Shame the music stopped once the tutorial was oven.  :(

The controls felt a bit wavy using the mouse, maybe give an option to play with the keyboard could be sweet.

Overall nice game.  :)

Thanks very much - glad you enjoyed it :)

There is actually a keyboard option; press K once the game has started and you can use the arrow keys to move and space bar to fire.

It appears I was blind for a second, I didn't see the info on the right of the screen. :-[

I love the retro look to this.

@regnared: no problem!  I'll just hope you were too captivated by the game to notice and it's not that the font is unreadable :P

@djcityscapes: thanks, it's probably the thing I'm most pleased with too.  I wanted to evoke the Manic Miner-esque enemies you'd get in the shooters you buy for £1.99 in your local Woolworths back in the 80s.  The bingo theme lent itself nicely to this and I stuck to a 16 colour palette resembling the Commodore 64's (though I didn't use the fat pixels of multi-colour mode or the attribute rules regarding number of colours to a cell).

Sadly, looking back at this now, I think the game mechanic is flawed somehow and I'm not sure how I'd go about fixing it...