SHOOT THEM UP

March 13, 2006 8:08 PM

Mono wants you to have a seizure. Fast paced 2D shoot-em-up where your goal is to paint the screen white (or black) by shooting aggressive blobs of red, blue and green. (Free downloadable exe) [More Inside]
posted by boo_radley (16 comments total)

Each color you shoot changes the way your enemies react, and changes the look and feel of the board. Getting hit results in a synesthetic blur of wobbling, gyrating pain. Get hit too often and the board starts vibrating and whirling out of control. Visit the binaryzoo homepage for 2 other conceptually simple, yet difficult games.

I can still see it when I close my eyes.
posted by boo_radley at 8:10 PM on March 13, 2006

All TwelveTwo's thumbs are up.
posted by TwelveTwo at 8:42 PM on March 13, 2006

I like all of binaryzoo's games, but mono is by far the most satisfying. It's such a simple concept, executed perfectly.
posted by chrominance at 8:50 PM on March 13, 2006

Holy crap! So much stuff flying all over the screen! So many colors! *gibbers softly to himself in the corner* Yessss, my precious. We loves it! We loves it! And it loves usss baaaack! No! No, my precious. Nots for eatings, this one. Licking only!

And it runs full speed on my crappy work laptop. Good job, binaryzoo!
posted by loquacious at 9:04 PM on March 13, 2006

it's asteroids on acid!
posted by muckster at 9:42 PM on March 13, 2006

Holy crap no one said it throbbed. I think I'll go lie down.
posted by MetaMonkey at 9:43 PM on March 13, 2006

Great game, but my god it gets hard. I got up to 66 percent, and I think that's enough for me.
posted by painquale at 9:43 PM on March 13, 2006

This reminds me a lot of Geometry Wars on the 360. It may actually be cooler, however...and that's saying something.
posted by Malor at 9:45 PM on March 13, 2006

Interesting, according to the error message I just got, this game was made in DarkBASIC. Maybe about time I got into that.
posted by MetaMonkey at 9:45 PM on March 13, 2006

i'll supply my own trails, thanks.

no, seriously. fast, clean lines and a dark room are all you need. mono works because it's part of the game, but duo/duo-tris are (imho) just nauseous.
posted by arialblack at 10:25 PM on March 13, 2006

had this on my desktop already, but this post reminds me i need to get it on my laptop...guess I'd been putting it off thinking it'd run crappy.
posted by juv3nal at 11:03 PM on March 13, 2006

This was also on Shoot the Core, linked here
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 12:25 AM on March 14, 2006

Hmm, it crashed at about 79%. interesting.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 12:33 AM on March 14, 2006

It's all fun and games until the game makes you barf.
posted by hyperlith at 1:53 AM on March 14, 2006

Me and my mates have been playing this one for a while, it's non stop fun until near the end when the screen starts wobbling and you realize you haven't blinked in over 2 minutes.

One of my faves right now.

And if you like non stop spaz out shit flying all over the screen games check out Warning Forever
posted by daHIFI at 10:36 AM on March 14, 2006

I keep coming back to this, but I'm still not even close to beating it. If anyone can get much past 85%, please tell me how.
posted by MetaMonkey at 3:36 PM on March 28, 2006