1000 Years Ago

"1000 Years Ago" is a 2-D, Third-Person Shooter, Point-and-Click Side-Scroller Boss-Battle my futzi01 featuring art by Shho13, C~H~Loboguerrero~C, Drud14, bednarowski, Emper24, blingingjak, Lextsy, Pikuseru1, and Grendo11 as well as music by ISMOFepicly. The game also features art taken from MelancholySanctuary 1 and 2 as well as sound effects from Branden "LizardRock" Lizardi, the Universal Soundbank, and finally Freesound. The current version is 1.3. futzi01 says that the next update will feture varying levels of difficulty.

Premise
The goal of the game is to help Princess Celestia aquire the gems of the Elements of Harmony in order to aquire the "Harmony Blaster" which you then fire at Nightmare Moon in order to banish her to the moon. To get the gems you must blast at Nightmare Moon with your solar beam. However whilst doing so you must survive Nightmare Moon's attacks. If Celestia wins the game ends and the player is given his/her score based on how fast he/she defeated her. If Nightmare Moon manages to hit Celestia 7 times, the player loses and is told that "The night will last forever" and in given the option to try again.

Gameplay/Features
The player controlls Celetia's movements with wither the 'WASD' or arrow keys. The player waits for the Solar Beam Charge ber to fill and then fires it at Nightmare Moon. If the beam hits, a gem representing on of the six Elements of Harmony will fly from right to left across the screen. The player needs to guide Celestia to pick up these gem before it flies off in order to slowly fill it's corresponding Element Bar. This must be done several times with each element in order to fill the bar. After each bar has been filled the player is allowed to fire the "Harmony Blaster." All the while, the player must avoid Nightmare Moon's attacks.

Nightmare Moon's Attacks
The attacks are all randomly generated. Each time Celestia is hit by an attack she loses one of her seven hitpoints.
 * Nightmare Moon fires four green orbs which spiral around her positoin outwards in an anti-clockwise motion.
 * Nightmare Moon fires three waves of four blue sparks towards Celestia.
 * Nightmare Moon fires a beam of blue electricity in a stright line at Celestia.
 * Nightmare Moon summons thunder clouds which fire electric bolts at random as well as hurt Celetia on contact with the clouds themselves.
 * Night mare Moon summons a line of bloulders and fires them at Celestia at random.
 * Nightmare Moon fires three bolts of yellow electricity in three random directions.
 * Nightmare Moon levitates sharp rocks from the ground and fires them ramdomly at Celestia.
 * Nightmare Moon fires five red orbs which fly in a wavy straight line to Celestia.
 * Nightmare Moon fires four yellow orbs at Celestia which fly at Celestia once more from behind.
 * Nightmare Moon summons a large sword to swipe at Celestia.
 * Nightmare Moon can also damage Celestia by coming into contact with her.

The game also feature an eater egg where if the Konami Code is entered during gameplay a cannon as seen in the fan-made video "Friendship is Magic Bitch" will engulf Nightmare Moon and launch her in the general direction of the moon. She misses, but Celestia smiles gleefully anyways.

Plot
The game starts out with a short indroduction. Princess Luna has refused to lower the moon and due to her bitterness; she has transforemed into night mare moon. Princess Celestia then gets into a battle with her sister, gains the elements of harmony, and banishes her sister to the moon. Celetis is then show. to be rather sad with this turn of events.

External link(s)
| 1000 Years Ago on deviantart