Hyper Frenzy

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Black Space is a free to play 2D retro top down SpaceWar! ripoff featuring a couple of different multiplayer game modes. There's 2D retro pixel "art", what looks like a 4:3 stretched aspect ratio (it's funny to watch your ship distort as it turns around!), what looks like a game engine written in .NET or java or Visual Basic or something. The game crashes on alt+tab with a CRenderer::DrawBegin() error, so there's a lot of quality issues that make this unrecommendable. The game is completely free. Nothing speaks more to a developers belief in themselves and their product than making their game available for everyone without remuneration. This is certainly a gesture that shows dedication to the gaming industry. It's a shame in this case that the implementation is below the minimum standards a dedicated PC game should offer to enthusiasts. Even for free, I can't recommend this. [quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Response![/url][/quote]The developer has weighed in to inform everyone they didn't read the [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Usage Rules[/url] for Steam "partners", or they deliberately ignored the part where Valve says: [quote]Though it may be tempting, not every review needs to be responded to. A developer response will frequently draw more attention than the original statement, potentially turning a small issue into a much larger community discussion. It's also not a good idea to use this feature to refute customer opinions. Your direct attention can be seen as validation or a defensive attempt to silence your customers.[/quote] The developer of this broken garbage demands that he never saw SpaceWar!, Asteroids, Star Control, or any other games derived from the game physics and mechanics of 1962's SpaceWar! (one of the first documented video games). Nope, this guy INVENTED those mechanics all on his own. I guess SpaceWar! and Asteroids are a ripoff of Black Space, then, and the developer is going to go and take legal action against Atari for stealing his idea in 1980, and that Asteroids is copyright infringement. Several decades before this garbage hit Steam, Atari stole his game idea. Alternatively, the developer is completely full of crap. Gamers, you be the judge. The facts are all there. Nothing in the developers pointless breach of Valve guidelines changes any of the objective facts of my review. My review stands unaltered. I cannot recommend this game to anyone.