It's free to enter: by just buying the game in Steam is enough.
We want this championship be the first of many. While there are many players playing them we will carry on organizing new tournaments.
Welcome to the League of the Extraordinary Vortices.
The championship:
Vortex Attack has been designed specially for beating each-others hi-scores (like the old days). After all, it's more or less a spin-off Galaga™ with a lot of extras that modern technology allows us to implement today. But, we have gone a step further and we have created the tournaments system where anybody can create a tournament with its own rules. With this, we are organizing now the first Vortex Attack World championship and everybody is invited to join it. No bad for a one man band, Indie developer , right?
Prizes and sponsors:
This first series has already 9 sponsors* giving over 19 prizes distributed in 3 winners.
We are extremely grateful to all of them. These are prizes they are giving away:
Best player:
Second and third best players:
Best Spanish player - Special category:
Rules:
The World Championship 2015 series will run from September to December.
Every month there will be a public tournament where players can score points, at the end of every month, table will be cleared and scores will be transferred to another table (check official site) where points will be added as the following.
This championship has 4 stages: one per month and ends in December.
Winners, and claiming the award:
Only 3 first best players will get prizes:
When the last stage finishes, after adding the latest points to the League table.
We will proceed with the date verification and cheat checks. If all clear, we will publish the name of the winners in Twitter and winners will have to claim their prizes before the end of January 2016.
Note: Prizes will go down the list if the awards are unclaimed (with another month to claim it). So try to score as much as possible and never quit.
We hope see as many player as possible, if this proves successful we will aim for bigger contests!
And you, what are you waiting for? Current level is not that high, take your chance while the game is not that known!
Good luck.
Patch 1.0.8
Hello everybody,
We have updated again Vortex Attack!
Enjoy the free and better contents!
This time we have improved and added a ton of things to the game:
GAME PLAY UPDATES
- Improved the player' ships graphics. They are much nicer looking than ever.
- Toggling full-screen won't not kick players out from hi-scores.
- Game detail auto adapts now. It decreases graphics quality if detects the game is running slow. If the detail level is at its lowers, it will kick the player out the steam records.
You need to pass the test at least once but you can manually change detail level from menu. - Improved some GUI elements.
- Small gameplay tweaks:
- - Level 42 boss slightly easier.
- - Overall more playable
- - Assistant multi will shoot a little bit faster now.
- Now you can play online tournaments to get fantastic prizes.
More players = Better prizes!
- Ongoing league. Starts in September 2015. Players will score every month and at the end of the year we will reward the winners.
Go , practice now!
- You can organize and create private tournaments.
Specially good for external events.
WEBSITE
Also we have updated our site to reflect all of those new features:
VORTEX ATTACK SITE
Good luck!
Version 1.0.2 PATCH upgrades.
With this new version, we have improved:
Game performance game remains playable in lower specs.
Power-up system thanks to the feedback from some reviewer.
We don't want luck to take a big part on this game, powerups are more suitable for each level and better distributed.
Level 42 mothership.
We noticed some of you got stuck there. We made it slightly easier but don't expect a walk in the country side.
Improved special ships (plus) graphics.
Improved scoring system: now bonus are not going to give you super high scores.
Fixed lumergy and 1CC achievements.
Other smaller issues
Please let us know if is there anything else to fix, if you can find any!
Enjoy & Thanks for playing!
Tomorrow: 27th May final version will be out.
I hope you enjoyed the betas and really enjoy the final version.
We heard you here and by mail and we have done almost everything your asked for!
Now, it's time to unlock all 70+ achievements and beat for friends hi-scores!
Many thanks!!
New Visuals ahead!
We are currently improving the rest of the game experience.
Improving the graphics, we know it was the weakest point of the game. So we are working hard to have a better graphics experience.
Here is an example:
http://snag.gy/BVWBy.jpg
Sorry we can't post the image here directly, Click the link to have a glimpse of what is coming and please let us know what do you think.
Thanks!
Participate in the betas
Hello everybody,
We are uploading new exciting unique experimental versions for you to test them out before anybody else does!
They might have features that never see the light, who knows?
[H1]How to access them.[/H1]
Just enable beta by:
1- right clicking on Vortex Attack logo in your library.
2- Press properties
3- Clicks betas tab
4- Opt-in by selecting beta in the drop down menu
5- no password! (till release date)
Enjoy!
Release date moved to 27th May 2015
Hello Vortex Attack players,
We need to work in the game a little bit more so we postponed the game 4 weeks.
We also have been working very hard to lower the min specs fixing some bugs that made the game run slower than it should.
As we develop new features we need to re-test all the new bits and check if old ones break. So 4 extra weeks seems to be a fair amount of time to have a very polished super playable fun game. I just hope we don't have to postpone it any longer. We want to release the game as soon as possible.
Till release date we will be releasing a few versions to be played by you guys.
We need more feedback. We are using it all to make a better game.
Don't be shy, help us!
