Bowmaster flash game

September 29, 2006 6:49 PM

Bowmaster - Friday flash fun. Shoot arrows (including ice, fire, and bomb types) at monsters. Protect your people's houses. Earn experience points to upgrade your weaponry.
posted by cerebus19 (23 comments total)

For somewhat less focused violence (plus an incongruously chipper techno/harmonica soundtrack), try Gunmaster 2, by the same designer.
posted by Iridic at 7:04 PM on September 29, 2006

call me a whippersnapper, but it's like playing monopoly what with the upgrades. maybe I'm just not very good at earning the xp. aside from all that noise, I thought it was fun. thanks!
posted by carsonb at 7:59 PM on September 29, 2006

I was just wishing for some FFF!
posted by WaterSprite at 8:06 PM on September 29, 2006

Heh. What is it with MeFi and base-defense games? First it was that stick-person-flinging castle game, then the house with all the guns, and now this.

Not that I didn't enjoy it. This one, unlike the other two, doesn't have the problem of eventually becoming automated when your snipers are elite enough to do it all for you.
posted by Schlimmbesserung at 8:23 PM on September 29, 2006

Damn you. Just when I'd gotten sick of these stupid distractions and begun doing useful activities. Now I'll never get anything done!
posted by IronLizard at 11:07 PM on September 29, 2006

Ain't loading for me. Any mirrors?
posted by zardoz at 11:34 PM on September 29, 2006

House with all the guns? What house with all the guns? When was there a house with all the guns?
posted by joedan at 12:42 AM on September 30, 2006

Jesus christ.

I can't believe I just played that game as long as I did.
posted by blastrid at 1:27 AM on September 30, 2006

Lvl 24!
posted by blastrid at 1:27 AM on September 30, 2006

god, way too much time I spent playing that. I think level 24 was the one where I finally closed the browser and vowed never to return.
posted by delmoi at 2:36 AM on September 30, 2006

house with all the guns.
posted by scodger at 3:04 AM on September 30, 2006

Did you notice that the ice arrows will extinguish fires? It's for when they try to burninate your thatched-roof cottages.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:58 AM on September 30, 2006

Was it just me or did it sound as if you were facing off against an army of armoured Homer Simpsons?
posted by Serial Killer Slumber Party at 6:01 AM on September 30, 2006

Haha, yes. I'm also trying to figure out what the ogres said when you hit them but didn't kill them. "Stop it?" "Stupid?" "Dew Pit?" The mystery rages on.
posted by Schlimmbesserung at 6:09 AM on September 30, 2006

Zardoz:
Try here.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 6:12 AM on September 30, 2006

Gets boring after a few second, I prefer the simple "bowman" game.
posted by proph3t at 9:28 AM on September 30, 2006

Loads of fun, though I bet it would be much easier with a mouse and not a touchpad.
posted by quin at 9:45 AM on September 30, 2006

When you use special arrows - fire, ice, oil, etc - you don't get xp. I could deal with that if they hadn't capped the # of normal arrows at 3. This game has the opposite of the normal xp mechanism. In harder levels you have to rely on archers/catapult/special weapons more, meaning you get less xp. The ability to go back to previous stages gives you an opportunity to gain xp, but I'm not going to grind for lvls in a goddamn flash game.
posted by tylermoody at 12:12 PM on September 30, 2006

The three main arrows are more than enough for most levels (minus flak for those stupid flying guys). Have you been uping the "Arrow Damage" stat?
posted by litghost at 2:14 PM on September 30, 2006

I quit at about level 44. There went my plans for the day :P
posted by Foosnark at 2:33 PM on September 30, 2006

I liked the way that the google ads were right there on the left, so that a careless click could, say, take me from the game I had been playing for 45 minutes to a website I didn't want to visit. Wheeeee!

Still, plenty of fun!
posted by tomble at 8:14 AM on October 1, 2006

Level 26 blew my mind... after about an hour of obeying the game's internal laws of physics: POOF! No gravity! wtf
posted by synaesthetichaze at 8:31 AM on October 1, 2006

Man, why they always hating on the ogres?
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:34 AM on October 3, 2006