CHORTLE'S SPACE RETORT app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 2122 ratings )
Music Games Action Arcade
Developer: Rick Greco
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 12 Jul 2014
App size: 148.91 Mb

From Greco Creative comes CHORTLES SPACE RETORT: the Worlds First R.P.S. - Relaxed Person Shooter, a First/Third Person Space Shooter.

(Optimized for iPhone 5/5s, iPad Air or better. Will run acceptably on iPhone 4/4s, iPad3 v4. Older devices are not powerful enough to run this app.)

Play as friendly alien Chortle on a dangerous personal mission to the alien Orbital Mining Facility in Earth orbit.

Steer your alien fighter using your iOS devices accelerometer as you fire rockets and plasma weapons at designated targets for Retort points and Rank ups.

Disable power and shielding, blow out the DNA Lab Cryogenics and disable the Interstellar Space Portal before the alien reinforcements arrive!

Once the shields are down the brave hero will seek maximum Retort, all the while keeping a keen eye on the radar as Admiral Rhendeclod and his armada are on their way from earth to stop you.

Just in time you boost out of the Mining Facility and escape to the humans Space Station before the nasty Admiral Rhendleclod can lock you up, or worse!!!

CHORTLES SPACE RETORT various features:

• Navigating the ship is in itself a Space Flight Simulation, a nicely satisfying one. Think 3 axis, no gravity - almost like navigating far underwater only in Space!

The player will find they can fly around without firing a shot so as to not activate the enemy defenses. Then they can just fly around, poke in and around the environment, simply cruising to the soundtrack.

• No One Dies - shooting at Civilian Buildings and Shuttle PODs does two things aside from scaring the civilians:

- Loss of valuable Retort Points, also locks out a Full Retort rank-up
- Admiral Rhendleclod coming from Earth pushes his armadas ships to brink of meltdown to arrive even faster - watch that radar!

• Randomized end of game timer - if the player has or hasn’t progressed to manage an escape in time, the game is over when the military arrive and arrest Chortle. The timer is represented as a Radar as Distance readout, and is relative. Each new game will induce a randomized start distance for the arriving military, so the smart player won’t assume Admiral Rhendleclod is starting as far away as he was last time the game was played.

Chortles Ship:

• Third Person View
• First Person view (bow cam)
• Accelerometer based helm control
• Auto-Regenerative Ships Power and Defenses
• Kinetic Ship Shielding (ship cant be destroyed)
• Ship Plasma Weapons (regenerative)
• Ship Rocket Weapons (fixed compliment)
• Ship Dual Weapon Mode (both Rockets and Plamsa fire)
• Ship High Speed Acceleration Boost

ISP - Interstellar Teleportation Portal
• Local Teleportation via the ISP within the game play arena is possible until the ISP is sufficiently damaged and stops working.

Play for:

• Maximum Retort points
• "Target class eliminated" based Rank-ups to super advance Retort points
• Take out the power to disable the crater shield
• Disable the InterStellar Space Portal (ISP) to stop alien reinforcements from coming through
• Escape to the Space Station as soon as you can when the Crater Shield is down, or, stick around and go for maximum points and a FULL RETORT

• The sheer joy of a flying around in a spaceship flight sim

Unique:

• R.P.S. - Relaxed Person Shooter - by design a low anxiety space game, its a game, not a job
• The ships helm becomes less responsive the more damage and less power the ship has. As power returns and the ship recovers, the helm control recovers as well
• To foil formulaic play:
- Randomized placement every game of point bearing asteroid and ship targets
- Retort points are relative! Each Retort target and rank-up is worth a minimum of Retort points, and goes up from there based on the math of alien secret algorithms
• Custom Soundtrack featuring music from Subhop Culture artist Rooter, Dance/Trance/Alt artist Stuart Randerson, and alt Rock band FRACTURED VISION™.
• Finger slide across the bottom of the screen to change Soundtrack during game