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If you've played my game and are familiar with the concept, you can skip this paragraph. Basically, it's a shmup that aims to be unique. The mains ways in which I plan to achieve this are 1) multiple player ships that all have totally different playstyles, so the game can be quite different depending on your choice of ship and 2) the speed of the game increases (i.e. get's harder) while you're doing well, so you have to balance being awesome and not being awesome so the game doesn't get out of hand and overwhelm you. Other than that, it's a fairly fast paced top-view shmup. It's one of my favorite genres, my big influences being Raiden, Ikaruga, Touhou, and some of ABA games' work.

 

 

So, fairly large-ish update from last time. Added a new player ship, several new enemies and another boss (for a grand total of... two :(). Also added the option to go straight to wave 2 (which is still really short) in case you want to see the new enemies/boss without getting through the first wave/boss.

 

I'd like to add that because keyboard controls are being bitchy and weren't really intended in the first place, and the vast majority of testing I do is with mouse controls, I've neglected the keyboard for the time being. Everything should still work if you play with keyboard, but the fact that the movement speed isn't free like with mouse control, things will be harder.

 

 

Anyway, the new ship breaks the "things get faster when you're doing better" mold by giving the player direct control over the speed of the game. Instead of speed changes being a by product of doing well, you can change the speed to what you want it to be, although your score increase (or decrease) reflects it (i.e. if you slow it down, you lose points and vice versa). It also has a Gravity Well ability that pulls all shots towards it and then releases a swarm of your own after it runs out.

 

The next ship I add will either be one that uses various types of shields to do things, or one that combines some of the gravity ideas used in other ships to make a ship that plays by manipulating the enemy shots (and maybe even enemy ships).

 

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. Leave any comments here, I'm open to criticism of all kinds :)

 

 

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Download here:

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?9mc7pels5zcpcsq

 

To my eternal shame, I must double post in my own thread to bump it, since I don't want to make a new one.

 

Please try my game. It will make me happy :(

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Fuck yeah! I've been looking for a new shmup to play for a while now, and a non-Touhou one would be a great change of pace!

 

I'll totally download it and try it when I get home from work.


GET IN THE PIT

  On 2012-08-23 at 6:54 AM, Djenty said:

ON MLP 4UMS ERRYTHIN IS SRS

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