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[Dragonmaw]

Trapped inside an pocket dimension with a vast squadron of hateful machines, the few remaining pilots of the United Space Force’s 139th Mechanized Division fight an endless war against those they have been trapped with. Cursed with reconstructive nanomachines, they must fight and be destroyed, over and over and over, so that humanity can be safe. Only after they are done can they return to the worlds they agreed to protect. But with each death and rebirth, their hold on sanity and reality begins to slip. The darkness grows larger, and the march of endless death continues...

A VS dual-stick shooter reminiscent of

or CyberOn. More of a focus on accurate shooting than fighting game mechanics in a fully 2D space, though. Think Geometry Wars or Smash TV, but instead you are killing your buddies. Latest build can always be found at the end of the post

Suggestions for names are welcome.

REQUIRES XBOX 360 CONTROLLER

Planned features:

- Dual-stick moving and shooting for up to four players (locally)
- Dashing to build up bomb meter
- Multiple bullet patterns and bomb types
- Multiple characters, each with unique patterns

Potential features:

- Environmental hazards
- Gametypes (TDM, CTF, KOTH)

Future Features (when engine updates):

- Netplay
- Generic gamepad support

Latest build: Alpha 0.03

[Melly]

Can't it be controlled with mouse & keyboard for at least one of the players? I only have one 360 gamepad here, how do you expect me to drag my sister out of her room and force her to play games with me like this?

Interesting concept though.

[Dragonmaw]

Can't it be controlled with mouse & keyboard for at least one of the players? I only have one 360 gamepad here, how do you expect me to drag my sister out of her room and force her to play games with me like this?

Interesting concept though.

Might add mouse + keyboard control for first player only. That's for later, though. At the moment I'm focusing on getting features in, rather than compat.

[Inanimate]

Arena shooters are nice. Arena DEATHMATCHES... that is nicer.

[Dragonmaw]

Might have an artist!

[Dragonmaw]

Scratch that, DO have an artist. Here's a rough of the main character (easy character, default whatever).



Dashing, shot types, and multiple players are in.

[Inanimate]

Who is your artist? That's looking mighty fine.

Also, dashing? Sounds like battles could get pretty acrobatic.

[Dragonmaw]

Who is your artist? That's looking mighty fine.

Also, dashing? Sounds like battles could get pretty acrobatic.

Yeah.

Basically, holding down the dash button allows you to move faster for brief periods of time. While dashing, you gather bullets and add them to your bomb (super) meter. When the game enters playtesting I'm going to see what balance changes need to be made.

[Sos]

Is that Scott Pilgrim?

[Dragonmaw]

Haha. I suppose in that he has a fuzzy jacket and simple design, yeah! But no, it's not Scott Pilgrim.

Build in the first post has been updated. 1.5 hours of work so far and it's playable. Characters can now shoot (and kill) each other. Restarting isn't enabled yet, power-ups/bombs/dash clears are in, but not represented (just the underlying bits, rather).

First bar is health, second is dash, third is power (currently unused).

[Blademasterbobo]

This is a nameless shmup by Dragonmaw that doesn't actually exist. Last year, I went to church over 3 weekends. The first weekend, the sermon was on the power of belief. The priest spoke about how by believing in ourselves and in God, we would be able to overcome any obstacles in life. The second weekend, the sermon was on how everyone sins constantly, and the priest detailed many ways in which he sinned in his day to day life. He asked us to think about ways in which we have sinned in our day to day lives. The last weekend, the sermon was on how to better ourselves through Christ, by learning to accept that we would sin, and learning how to use Christ to augment our willpower in order to sin less. In the end, I learned that magic ghost spirits surrounded me, judging everything that I did, and that I could channel these spirits in order to become more favorable in their eyes.
3/10.

[LiquidAsh]

It looks like you accidentally pasted the youtube link a second time instead of a link to your Latest Build: Alpha 0.02.

[Dragonmaw]

It looks like you accidentally pasted the youtube link a second time instead of a link to your Latest Build: Alpha 0.02.

Weird. I didn't actually change the link at all. I just replaced the existing file on Dropbox.

Fixed. (Not like it matters, next build is almost ready)

[eva]

dragonmaw ur build link is a utube videohm now it changed how it change

[Blademasterbobo]

dragonmaw your game still has one major flaw, namely, not existing. What's the eta on having this problem fixed?

[Dragonmaw]

dragonmaw your game still has one major flaw, namely, not existing. What's the eta on having this problem fixed?

Patch notes for Alpha 0.03:

- Game now exists

[Dragonmaw]

Next build up!

Increase power by holding A. Higher power means more/stronger shots. Dash through shots to add to bomb meter, store bombs! Currently bombs don't do anything.

Next plans: full patterns for first character, bombs.

Wouldn't mind suggestions. Dashing is currently a little overpowered, since it recharges so fast. Also don't know how to seriously incorporate power. Should it be a charging (hold a button, stay stationary)? Should there be random power-ups scattered around? Should you use bombs to gain power?

[Dragonmaw]

Oh look I'm going to necro another one of my threads and move it to Devlogs.

Game to work on when Gunshy tires me out, especially since I have been working on it recently. Current changes compared to existing build:

- Dash meter is now segmented into 3 parts. When you dash, you can't fire, but you move twice as fast and absorb bullets into yourself to make bombs. You can dash for about 2 seconds. If you break off the dash before it is finished, the appropriate dash segment is drained completely, but it begins to recharge immediately. If the dash expires, your dash meter won't recharge for a brief period of time.
- Power has been removed. Ships now only have two patterns and bombs. Power felt like needless complexity.

Might have another artist (this game has seriously had 4 artists, at this point I would love for a TIGS person to just fucking do it) to make the sprites. Won't be pixel art.

[Dragonmaw]

Today:

• Removed powering up (was unintuitive, generally not fun)
• Halfway through altering the dashing system. dashing in chunks is now present, but dash regeneration and such has not been fixed

Future:

• Finish reworking dash system
• Add in environmental hazards

[Dragonmaw]

Today:

• Dashing rework has been finished. Regeneration is now on a cooldown depending on how long you dashed. Cutting off before the end of your dash drains the rest of your chunk but regenerates faster, whereas holding the dash for the full time causes a longer delay in regeneration.
• Tweaked some movement logic

To-do:

• Environmental hazards need to be added
• Build the front-end menu

Looks like I probably have a musician/sound guy. I went ahead and came up with starter text ala fighting games, but done in a goofy Engrish shmup style:

WARNING WARNING WARNING
ENEMY HAS APPROACHED AND
WANTS FIGHT! FUCK HIM UP!
SHOW YOUR TRUE ENERGY!
WARNING WARNING WARNING