lightcone: prototype 1

The third game on the website comes three years after the previous one and marks the beginning of a period of much more frequent releases (Increpare releases 13 more games in the last three months of the year). A 2-player split-screen grid-based top-down shooter with minimal visuals and special-relativistic mechanics. What you see on your side of the screen (ie the other player and the moving bullets) is delayed, I guess by some factor depending on distance. There are 6 different levels with different layouts. I played for a few minutes with a friend and it was ok. It's hard to really grasp anything about the mechanic other than noticing the delay, maybe you would have to play for longer to get more into it.