If you don’t mind graphics in playing games but to consider its gameplay, you better check James Swiney’s Hectic Space where you will be challenge using 8-bit style graphics in bringing back the old years of space shooting game. Here you will need eliminate all alien spaceship in your way without getting crashed from them. Don’t you worry because like what you experience in playing such game before, you can still use power-ups to help your way in getting a high score. Aside from in-game boost, you might also like to hear this shared tips and tricks of playing Hecti Space or you can personally share your guide here through comment form below for our readers/viewers. Don’t worry we will preserve your credits and all acknowledgement will be belongs to you.
Since we already mentioned power-ups, to discuss it further, these are indicated with green number signs that you might see appearing across the playfield. Upon getting this in game, you will possess additional firepower in a limited duration. Power-ups come randomly from homing shots, scatter-shot, exploding, etc. Unlike in typical space shooting game where you can use power-up as long as your ship is alive, this time you need to use it with timing especially you should based it with your current opponent using the specific weapon that will give you enough boost.
Yes you can slow down time in game and this is by acquiring the blue number sign in game. This will allow you to slow everything down for a given period of time. With this feature you will greatly earn the advantage of having enough speed to avoid and do what you want with slowed opponent to get a higher score or do such combo.
Definitely combo streak will makes the game challenging where players do the longest combination of shot they can do without being interrupted. Combo is about hitting as many opponent as you can either using your regular firepower or with power-ups to hit multiple enemies in a string and make your combo obviously easy with empowered shot. This is the best way to build up your score especially if you are aiming for rank but don’t forget as most player did, that you are not invincible and you still need to avoid incoming gunfire. Your survivalbility is far more important than doing such combo.
It is not so difficult to acquire shield in Hectic Space as part of your defense mechanism. Just look for the blue heart on the battlefield and this will activate your shield. Once in the power of shield you are protected from several hits for 10 seconds. Here you can maximize your offense and forget your defense for 10 seconds. This is perfect in doing combos but don’t forget to estimate the duration of your shield so you can prepare yourself once the shield fade out.
As you start the game, you have three hearts and every hit you take, it will lose you one. Upon consuming all three hearts, definitely that is the end of your game. In game there are also red hearts that you will see occasionally, just collect and save it for later tough levels. Even with three hearts, you can still collect this for later usage.
Yes you can compete other real time players through leaderboard scores. Every time you ended your game, you will see your screen loading the Leaderboard. Here you will see different score from top tier players who are in the lead of playing game. Here you need to connect to GameCenter or Google Play to compete with your score as a form of social influence of the game.