game Shups - A Rogue-Like Shoot 'em up Game

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A Rogue-Like Shoot 'em up Game

v . 0 . 1 . 2 . 0

The game is in early stage of development and everything seen there is not indicative of the final product.

 

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A B O U T

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Shups is a game in which you're controlling a spaceship and your objective is to survive the endless swarm of enemies. The game challenges players with constantly raising difficulty, which makes enemies more and more aggressive as the time goes to the point, where it becomes unbearable.

Your aid in the endless fight are items, that allow you to raise your parameters indefinitely. Some items will cause various effects to happen and these too, can be stacked for even more mayhem! Aside that, destroying enemy ships grants player experience, which boosts base parameters with each level-up.

The game currently lacks any real goal to achieve and therefore, players are expected to die at some point. The current challenge is to survive as long as possible.

How far will you go?

 

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S C R E E N S H O T S

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Title Screen - someday it will be better lol 

 

A wild rare item has appeared!

 

LEVEL UP!

 

BOOM BOOM BOOM!
(Note: Hold TAB to view STATISTICS or toggle with CAPS LOCK)

 

Woo the game was so kind to throw a legendary item (Firecrackers) at me pretty early.
"Maybe it'll be a good run..."

 

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D O W N L O A D

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PLATFORM: Windows
FILE TYPE: .exe (installer)
ESTIMATED GAME LENGTH: A single good run can go beyond 30 minutes. There's no save, it's rogue-like, duh!

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 NOTE
The game features update notifications and allows you to automatically download update packages within the application.
However, due to limitations, the application is unable to modify any game files and therefore, the update installation has to be performed manually.
After the updater finishes downloading the package, it will automatically run the installer for you and from there, it is recommended to INSTALL THE UPDATED GAME IN THE SAME LOCATION you've installed it initially. Doing so will replace game files with new updated ones, without any hiccups.

 CAUTION
Since it's an .exe installer and I'm not a registered publisher, Windows will probably warn you, that this file may be unsafe because it comes from an unknown publisher. In such circumstance you may have to acknowledge the warning and choose to "install anyway".
Not sure if I can anything about that, so let's consider it being normal. What you'll think of that warning though, I of course leave it up to you. If you suspect I'm a pro hacker or something, don't install it. 

 DISCLAIMER
Let me mention, that the game might have bugs, especially given it's in early stage of development.
report bugs pls 
 

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P L A N N E D   F E A T U R E S

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These are currently planned features, but things may change in the future.

> PROPER STAGE SYSTEM AND ENDING <
Basically, the goal will be to travel through paths to #ENEMY BASE# and wreck the main boss.
There will be different stages with moving backgrounds and whatsoever.
After each stage, players will be able to choose the next stage from randomly generated paths.
Each stage will have randomized effects, that lower/boost enemy stats and yield less/better loot.

> BOSSES <
Each stage shall end with a boss fight.

> ELITE ENEMIES <
A bigger boi shall spawn once in a while.

> LOCAL AND ONLINE MULTIPLAYER (COOP) <
What's better than one ship? Having two. 

> ITEM DISPLAY AND ICONS <
All items you've gathered shall be displayed on screen. And they shall have icons too.

> MORE SHIPS AND WEAPONS <
There will be different ships to choose from, each having different base stats and loadouts.

> MOAR ITENS <
There definitely will be more items in the future.

> AND PERHAPS SOME OTHER CONTENT <
... I can't think of at the moment.

 

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C H A N G E L O G

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Spoiler

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// V0.1.2.0 - 19-11-2022 - Item Icons And Rebalancing
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[ VISUALS ]
- ITEM ICONS! Finally, all items have icons now.

- Missiles and Rockets now leave trails to make them more visible.

[ GAMEPLAY ]
- Shield now blocks 75% of incoming damage (rounded up), and passes the rest 25% to HP. It is an attempt to make players benefit from HP regeneration even when the shield has not been fully depleted.

[ ITEM CHANGES ]
- [Toolbox] renamed to [Wrench]. Item effect remains the same.

- [Sticky Projectiles] renamed to [Glue] and the damage of sticky projectiles it creates has been buffed from 80% (+10% per stack) to 150% (+30% per stack).

- Buffed [Oil Drum] damage from 30% (+5% per stack) to 250% (+50% per stack) and increased its AoE from 5m (+1m per stack) to 6m (+1m per stack).

- Buffed [Firecrackers] AoE from 4m (+1.5m per stack) to 6m (+2m per stack).

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// V0.1.1.0 - 24-07-2021 - Item Display And Minor Balancing
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[ GAMEPLAY ]
- Buffed Arthur Ditto regeneration effect from 0.4 HP/s (+0.4 HP/s per stack) back to 1 HP/s (+1 HP/s).

- Buffed Sticky Bullets projectile damage from 40% (+2% per stack) to 80% (+10% per stack) and increased the amount of them from 3 (+1 every 10 stacks) to 3 (+1 every 5 stacks).

[ VISUALS ]
- Collected items are now displayed on screen. Item descriptions can be viewed by hovering cursor over their icons.

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// V0.1.0.0 - 19-07-2021 - Major Update - Stages, New Enemy And Item Rarity
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[ GAMEPLAY ]
added: New Stages - After each 20th Enemy Level, enemies will stop spawning and once player destroys all remaining enemies, they'll be taken to the next stage. The final stage is 5th and the enemies will be getting much more aggressive after some time there. Currently there's no real ending to achieve, so players are expected to die at some point, the current challenge is to survive as long as possible. The backgrounds are static and there's not much in them, for now it's just a cheap way to visualise some sort of progress. The stage system itself will be a major update once the right time comes.

added: New Enemy - Sniper - These ships will start aiming at players once they set their position. After two seconds of aiming, they'll instantly damage the player within the laser sight.

added: Different music tracks here and there to add a bit of variety.

changed: Reworked enemy spawn system. Instead of spawning a single enemy at specific, short intervals, they'll be spawning less frequently, but in groups. The enemy types and patterns vary between stages.

changed: Enemies level up every 20 seconds instead of 30.

added: Enemies now have a 7% chance to drop a repair bubble / orb, that restores 15% HP. The orb will follow the nearest player, begging to be picked. Relying on regeneration items (thus RNG) only was rather awkward in early stages.

buffed: Increased explosion radius of Homing Missile from 10m to 14m.

buffed: Increased explosion radius of Rocket Burst's rockets from 5m to 7m.

added: Item Rarity System - Now all items have rarity tier assigned to them, which impacts their drop rate. There are 4 rarity tiers: Common (White), Uncommon (Green), Rare (Blue) and Legendary (Orange). Whenever an item spawns, the rarity tier will be chosen (chances from lowest to highest: 80%, 15%, 4%, 1%) and the item will be randomly picked from the corresponding tier. The current list of items and their rarities, including newly added items:

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// COMMON (10 items - 80%/10 = 8% chance for each)
Hull Plate, Shield Generator, Gunpowder, X2 Scope, Heavy Barrel, Barrel Extender, Fuel, Thruster, Armor Plate, Toolbox
// UNCOMMON (3 items - 5% chance for each)
X4 Scope, Sticky Bullets, Magazine
// RARE (3 items - 1.33% chance for each)
Arthur Ditto, Oil Drum, Lubricant Oil
// LEGENDARY (1 item - 1% chance for each)
Firecrackers
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added: New Item (total:13) - Toolbox (Common) - After taking damage, regenerate 5 (+5 per stack) HP over 10 seconds.

added: New Item (total:14) - Sticky Bullets (Uncommon) - Destroyed enemies release 3 (+1 every 10 stacks) projectiles in random directions, each dealing 40% (+2% per stack) BASE DAMAGE.

added: New Item (total:15) - Oil Drum (Rare) - Destroyed enemies explode dealing 30% (+5% per stack) BASE DAMAGE within 5 (+1 per stack) meters.

added: New Item (total:16) - Lubricant Oil (Rare) - Shortens reload of secondary weapon by 10% (+10% per stack).

added: New Item (total:17) - Firecrackers (Legendary) - All projectiles have 20% (+20% per stack) chance to explode on impact for 50% TOTAL DAMAGE within 4m (+1.5m per stack).

nerfed: Reduced Arthur Ditto (Rare Item) regeneration effect from 1 HP/s (+1 HP/s per stack) to 0.4 HP/s (+0.4 HP/s).

changed: Minor adjustments to how damage is calculated. Crit multiplier is applied BEFORE damage variance (+/- 20%) now.

changed: Increased stat growth through leveling up from 6 HP and 1 BASE DAMAGE per level to 8 HP and 1.1 BASE DAMAGE per level.

[ VISUALS ]
changed: Item pickup text now displays the item name.

changed: Explosion has a more detailed sprite.

added: Logo with the game's title in the Title Screen.

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// V0.0.1.2 - 14-07-2021 - Special Weapon Update
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[ GAMEPLAY ]
added: New weapon type - Special ([R] key) - These weapons will usually cause more mayhem than the others, at the cost of long cooldowns.

added: New Special Weapon - Rocket Burst - Fires a burst of 30 rockets, each exploding for 50% BASE DAMAGE within 5m.

added: New Item (total:12) - Magazine - Allows to load 1 (+1 per stack) additional charge in the secondary weapon.

changed: Buffed Homing Missile (Secondary Weapon / MOUSE 2) - Raised damage from 250% to 400% and increased its explosion radius from 5m to 10m.

changed: Flat damage reduction of Armor Plate has been increased from 2 (+2 per stack) to 4 (+4 per stack).

[ VISUALS ]
added: Hovering cursor over weapons (or "skills" if prefer) in the bottom-left corner of HUD will show their descriptions and damage they deal.

added: Enemies now explode when destroyed, instead of just vanishing.

fixed: Title Screen now displays updated function keys.

fixed: Player ship now spawns facing upwards, instead of sideways.

fixed: Parameters in stat display (TAB / CAPS) that never have decimals in their percentages are now forced to be rounded, preventing from values like 120.00% to be displayed.

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// V0.0.1.1 - 12-07-2021 - Discord Rich Presence And Volume Control
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added: Discord Rich Presence that will update your activity on Discord.

added: Function keys to adjust music (F5 and F6) and sound (F7 and F8) volume. VSYNC settings were moved to F3 and F4 keys.

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// V0.0.1.0 - 12-07-2021 - Updater And Player Ship Rotation
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added: Upon launch, the game will check for updates and will inform players, if there is any available. Choosing to update will automatically begin downloading the new package and open the installer once it finishes. The installation process has to be performed manually by the player though. Players will be able to view changelog to see what's new before updating, or choose to skip the update. The game will prompt to update again upon next launch.

added: Player Ship will now be turning towards the cursor position and will shoot in that direction. For that, a new stat has been added, which controls at what speed the ship rotates.

added: New item (total:10) - Thruster - Increases ship turn speed by 5% (+5% per stack).

added: New item (total:11) - X4 Scope - 5% (+5% per stack) chance for critical hits to crit, dealing quadruple devastating damage.

added: Option in Pause Menu to Return to Title Screen, allowing to restart the game without having to shutdown application.

added: Players can toggle stat display (TAB) with CAPS LOCK.

changed: Homing Missile will pick a new nearest target if the enemy they're after is destroyed.

fixed: Damage popups weren't paused properly while the game was paused.

fixed: Corrected an oversight whereby the player shield capacity that is based on max HP was not being updated when leveling up. Picking up any item was correcting that value.

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// V0.0.0.4 - 10-07-2021 - Hotfix
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fixed: Homing Missiles were crashing the game if their target was destroyed by other means before the missile reached them. Now the missile will fly straight if the target they're after is destroyed.

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// V0.0.0.3 - 10-07-2021 - Hotfix And Adjustments
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fixed: Homing missiles were one-shooting enemies regardless of the damage they dealt. Destroying enemies in such manner was not giving player experience.

changed: Lowered turn speed of Homing missiles from 10 to 2. Previously the missiles were too accurate. This scales with Projectile Speed, so that the missiles retain equally accurate at higher speeds.

changed: Damage dealt has now a 20% variance, meaning a projectile that has 100 damage will deal 80-120. This is applied before crit multipliers and the result is rounded to nearest integer.

changed: Lowered the music volume to 50%. This will be configurable in options in the future.

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// V0.0.0.2 - 10-07-2021 - Secondary Weapon Update
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added: new weapon (MOUSE 2) - homing missile, which deals 250% base damage within 5m (50px) radius // (for comparison, the default gun fires two projectiles, 50% base damage each)

added: option to enable/disable VSYNC. I forgot I left it enabled by default, 'coz the game was working better for me this way, but it wasn't so epic for some other devices. So, configure to your needs.

added: PAUSE MENU! YES YOU CAN PAUSE NOW!!!111!one!!

added: don't tell anyone, but holding tab shows some stats and this version displays more stats.

changed: item spawn rate raises much slower, should keep the game balanced; previously the player stats were skyrocketing at some point.

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// V0.0.0.1 - 09-07-2021 - Initial Prototype Release
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C R E D I T S

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PROGRAMMING
Rikifive

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Rikifive

ADDITIONAL GRAPHICS
Kenney Game Assets

MUSIC
SHMUP Music Pack
Mega Game Music Collection

SUPPORT AND BETA-TESTING
My brother 

 

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L E T ' S   P L A Y S

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Thank you for playing!

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VERSION 0.1.1.0 PLAYED BY @HereComesTom

VERSION 0.0.1.1 PLAYED BY @HereComesTom

 

 

Edited November 19, 2022 by Rikifive
v.0.1.2.0 update

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L A T E S T   U P D A T E

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VERSION 0.1.1.0 IS OUT!

// C H A N G E L O G

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// V0.1.1.0 - 24-07-2021 - Item Display And Minor Balancing
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[ GAMEPLAY ]
- Buffed Arthur Ditto regeneration effect from 0.4 HP/s (+0.4 HP/s per stack) back to 1 HP/s (+1 HP/s).

- Buffed Sticky Bullets projectile damage from 40% (+2% per stack) to 80% (+10% per stack) and increased the amount of them from 3 (+1 every 10 stacks) to 3 (+1 every 5 stacks).

[ VISUALS ]
- Collected items are now displayed on screen. Item descriptions can be viewed by hovering cursor over their icons.

// U P D A T E   P O S T

2 minutes ago, Rikifive said:

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U P D A T E

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Released a minor update, in which items got buffed.

Also, collected items are now displayed in the bottom-right corner. Yeah, yeah, sadly it all still goes by their ID's. There will be icons in the future.

 

Planning to slowly work on local multiplayer next, once that's done, I'll get to online multiplayer.

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[Rikifive 24,183]

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U P D A T E

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Released a minor update, in which items got buffed.

Also, collected items are now displayed in the bottom-right corner. Yeah, yeah, sadly it all still goes by their ID's. There will be icons in the future.

 

Planning to slowly work on local multiplayer next, once that's done, I'll get to online multiplayer.

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Awesome let's play @HereComesTom

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// P O S T

https://forest-hideout.blogspot.com/2022/11/shups-update-v0120.html

 

// A B O U T

It's been a long time since the last update and there are two reasons. First, I have been rather busy with real life and such. Second, I somewhat got stuck at drawing icons for items. I hardly consider myself an artist, and drawing these budget icons turned out to be somewhat underwhelming. While I enjoy working on every single aspect of video games, creating graphic assets is quite challenging for me.

Either way, I finally got back on track and made some progress, totally not because my brother threatened me to bully me if I didn't do anything. 👀

The icons of all currently implemented items are posted below. Some are okay, some are less okay, but in my opinion everything looks better than having these displayed as ID numbers, right?

Of course there's just few of them at the moment, many, many, many more are planned. It's just the beginning...

The icons alone were the main goal of the update, but I figured it would be a bit boring to just push an update with some graphics only, so I've adjusted few other things as well.

Players mentioned, that the player missiles/rockets are hardly visible. I agree it was hard to see where they go, or whether they even were fired at all. These now leave a trail, so not only they're more visible, but it's also easier to tell where they're headed. I hope this addition will be satisfying in that regard.

The shield is something that bothered me, because when stacked enough, there was more shield than HP, and while that itself isn't really an issue, the problem were HP regeneration effects, that would work only when the shield was depleted and the ship was actually damaged. In an attempt to balance this, I made the shield block 75% of incoming damage, and pass the rest 25% to HP. This way the player will benefit from HP regeneration right after receiving a hit, even when the shield will be still up.

Other than this, few items received buffs to their damage and AoE.

You can download the latest version here: SHUPS GAME PAGE

If you already have the game installed, you can launch it to be prompted to update. Remember to install the updated package in the same directory, so that your existing files can be replaced. Also be sure to let the game close itself or close it yourself before starting the installation process.

// C H A N G E L O G

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// V0.1.2.0 - 19-11-2022 - Item Icons And Rebalancing
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[ VISUALS ]
- ITEM ICONS! Finally, all items have icons now.

- Missiles and Rockets now leave trails to make them more visible.

[ GAMEPLAY ]
- Shield now blocks 75% of incoming damage (rounded up), and passes the rest 25% to HP. It is an attempt to make players benefit from HP regeneration even when the shield has not been fully depleted.

[ ITEM CHANGES ]
- [Toolbox] renamed to [Wrench]. Item effect remains the same.

- [Sticky Projectiles] renamed to [Glue] and the damage of sticky projectiles it creates has been buffed from 80% (+10% per stack) to 150% (+30% per stack).

- Buffed [Oil Drum] damage from 30% (+5% per stack) to 250% (+50% per stack) and increased its AoE from 5m (+1m per stack) to 6m (+1m per stack).

- Buffed [Firecrackers] AoE from 4m (+1.5m per stack) to 6m (+2m per stack).

Edited November 19, 2022 by Rikifive
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