Heli Attack 2D

Heli Attack 2D

According to Douglas Adams (of '42' fame), higher dimensional beings are a "pretty nasty heathen lot." Unfortunately, the denizens of the lower dimensions are not much better. In the 2D horizontal slice there are nothing but vampires these days, and the vertical slice we visit today gives you little but tanks and planes trying to shoot you to kingdom come.

Luckily, you have a solid helicopter that can carry an unreasonable load of heavy weapons and ammunition, giving you the ability to evaporate all comers with extreme prejudice.

Blowing up everything is the deep, sophisticated purpose of this fine computer game. Have fun!

This game was developed for the GameDev.tv 2023 Game Jam.

Credits:

Build Order Win is Jan Haugland, who has developed and published this game as part the annual GameDev.tv Jam 2023.

Thank you to my friend Ricki for playtesting and providing invaluable bug reports and advice!

Thank you to everybody who publishes free assets for their fellow creators. For this game I ended up using a small subset of those I looked at, and all of them inspired me. For creators whose amazing assets are included in this game, thanks and credits go to:

Kenney (Kenney.nl), for his countless free assets, including sprites, sounds and fonts used all over this game!

Itch.io for making all this possible, including sharing a large asset library. Thank you to Robert Brooks aka gamedeveloperstudio for a number of beautiful sprites, including the aircraft; and to Vnitti for the pretty parallax background images.

Nicolae (Xelu) Berbece of "Those Awesome Guys" for some really professional keyboard and mouse images.

OpenGameArt for sharing a wealth of freely available resources. Thank you to Vasiliy Edomin for making and sharing the beautiful yellow helicopter that is this game's main character.

Unity Technologies, who puts out a lot of free assets in addition to the free (with conditions) and still awesome game engine!

Sonniss Professional Sound Libraries compiles a huge bundle of freely usable sound samples for GDC where many different sound studios provide quality content. Thank you to them and to SoundMorph, GameMaster Audio, Shapeforms Audio and BluezoneCorp for sharing quality audio files.

Gregor Quendel's nice music clips provide the music for the game ("Cinematic Trailer Music - Collection" at Unity Asset Store).

FreeSound for being a great resource for sound effects. Thank you to Kyles and Antumdeluge.

Filmcow for providing a big library of recorded and processed sounds of really good quality.

Pixabay, mostly known for their large collection of freely downloadable photographs, for also having a sizable sound library. Thank you for a number of explosion sounds (no username was available).

GameDev.tv for organizing this game jam that made me actually create and finish a game.

...and I hope I haven't forgotten anyone. In case I have, please inform me so I can remedy the error. Apologies and double thanks!

Last but not least: Thank YOU for visiting this page, maybe playing the game (and even reading the credits!)