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[mbalestrini]

Just tried it with my red and blue glasses and pretty cool. Always wanted to try and make a game or video with that technique. You should have it as an option you can turn on within the game.

Yes! I tried it just for fun, but now I'd love to play the real game in 3D.
I hope I can do it without slowing the fps too much.

[Player Ʒ]

There's a bit too much stars in the background. It might be confused for the bullets, as there aren't different colors.

[mbalestrini]

There's a bit too much stars in the background. It might be confused for the bullets, as there aren't different colors.

Thanks for the feedback!

We've made the bullets a lot bigger than the stars. From playing it I don't feel is confusing, but we'll test this in our next testing with users to see if we need to reduce the amount of stars.
We are working in same sort of trailer video where you will be able to see the gameplay and have a better idea about this.

[mbalestrini]

Here's a little teaser of the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XgWLxxeeLw

[Franklins Ghost]

WOW loving how massive the ship gets

[mbalestrini]

WOW loving how massive the ship gets

Yes.. it gets massive! There are just a couple of pixels left on the screen to move! 

[jackf]

Really cool!

Are the additions to the ship incremental, or does it take locational damage (if you are hit in the back, do back parts go away)?

[mbalestrini]

Right now they are not location dependent. No matter where you were hit you loose the last upgrade.

[hernansaez]

We're designing an arcade cabinet for the game! Click on the link to watch the first steps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l3pyJhmArM&feature=youtu.be

[mbalestrini]

We left this project on pause for a while but we are starting to work on it again.
It's been selected to participate in the expo GameOn here in Argentina.
We've decided to make an arcade cabinet of the game for the expo, so we now have to start working on that too.

[keo]

oh my god

[mbalestrini]

The process of building the cabinet is going a little bit slow, because we have not experience at all with in the subject, so there's a lot of google searches and blog readings (one blog that I really like is this).
We visited a couple of places where they sell old arcade cabinet, because our idea is to use one as a base for our game (we have no time or money to build our own customized cabinet... maybe next time).
Here's a picture of our search:


We've also bought our first part.... the White Joystick!
We couldn't find any white joysticks here in Argentina, and that was a very important piece (a red joystick on our black&white game was not an option!), so we had to buy from ebay.uk. We hope it will arrive on time.
This is what we bought:

[JobLeonard]

Won't you get problems with the TV overheating, as it's built for cooling itself in the standard position?

[mbalestrini]

Our first idea is to try to use an original arcade monitor. Those monitors are prepared for using them in vertical position, so I don't think we are going to have problems with that. We may have other problems related with using an arcade monitor 
If that doesn't work our second idea is to use a TV. It might be harder to get it inside the cabinet, but we now that we like how the game looks on a TV and that we only need a graphic card with tvout to use it.

[mbalestrini]

Here are some first ideas of posible cabinet designs (thanks to our friend Fernando from Neuroama), with different elements and vanishing points:








EDIT: posted the 3rd page because I had posted the 2nd twice