It’s time for another movie-themed web game! This one’s a shoot ‘em up me and a couple of dudes at Littleloud just finished working on for the new Ben Stiller/ Jack Black/ Robert Downey Jnr vietnam spoof, Tropic Thunder.

All the usual gaming caveats apply: this was a five week project in which we had to build a shoot ‘em up engine from scratch so no time for proper AI routines etc yawn etc.

Still, it’s turned out pretty sweet I think: you have a machine gun, a smart bomb and rows of wimpy extras to mow down, so the stage is definitely set for FUN.

We managed to squeeze some online leaderboard integration into the build for Paramount and, as the criteria for scoring is pretty involved, hopefully there’ll be a really good spread of high scores depending on a player’s speed and skill.

Pop over to www.tropicthundergame.com to have a look. (Note: If you find a bug I literally don’t want to know).