We released our 3rd community games showcase:

The SHMUP Creator has only been released 18 months ago!
We are still amazed by the quality of the community creations! Keep up the good work!





Most of those games are free or have demos. Links are there:
http://www.shmupcreator.com/

This is Steam SHMUP Fest and we are 20% off!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289520/SHMUP_Creator/

The SHMUP Creator is on sale on Steam until the 5th of January.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289520/SHMUP_Creator/

And Merry Christmas to everyone!
S.

The SHMUP Creator is 6 months old!
A lot of things happened, a lot of updates, a lot of incredible games from the community.
This is a good day to release our first Showcase

You can play the Elfin force SC demo level by VananaHammer:
https://tacobee.itch.io/efsc

That's a great demo level, a real piece of Gradius, I'm very impressed by it. I wish this user could make a full game one day





S.

On the SHMUP Creator page, we started to showcase users' games. A lot of really incredible and cool games!
We are really surprised by the quality and the originality of those creations. And very, very happy too
S.

http://www.shmupcreator.com/

[The SHMUP Creator is out now!]

This is it:

The SHMUP Creator is out now!

Very emotional, clicking on the "Release your game" button on Steam.
The tool is not perfect, there are still some bugs to fix, people are asking a lot of things, some are happy, some less happy...

I hope people will start to make games, and also create a small shmup makers community.
this will be so great!





Suny

[bullet hell]

Finally, we added a 3rd free asset pack to the SHMUP Creator: 2D geometry assets.
And we also added a new example game: Electro Loco, a small bullet hell level.





Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289520/SHMUP_Creator/
S.

This is, at last...
SHMUP Creator release date!

Some in-game tutorials examples:





We will announce the release date in the next few days.
See you!
S.

We created some bullet hell tests:





S.

SHMUP Creator 3D example game!

Blade of Death is an example of what the SHMUP Creator can do in 3D.
This tribute to Under defeat shows real-time lighting and shadows, particles effects, and enemies and backgrounds using 3D assets.

Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289520/SHMUP_Creator/





S.

This is an example of what the SHMUP Creator can do with 2D games.
There are a lot of things in this level: secrets, mid-bosses, several player weapons, as well as a lot of cinematic events, sound effects, multi-directional scrolling...

Everything is done in the editor, without any coding!





S.

[OCTOBER UPDATE]

OCTOBER UPDATE

It’s been a long time since the last update!
We were very busy during the summer: work, holidays, personal life…
Progress has been steady but slow.

LAST FEATURES AND BUG FIXING:
We fixed a lot of bugs, created new ones (yeah, it’s a never-ending story…) and added the last features. There are now a lot more controls for custom special effects and explosions.
There is also a new feature allowing users to create a parallax scrolling with 5 planes in a few clicks.
We also added a lot of bullet patterns to help users learn and understand how to create their own:




We also added new weapons presets and a lot of Touhou-like bullet patterns. We hope it will help users understand how to create great patterns with the visual Weapon editor!




OPTIMIZATIONS:
The SHMUP Creator is now compiled in 64 bits and I also optimized a lot of things in the engine and the editor. Some parts of it, like translating objects, are a lot faster.

NEXT:
I still have 4 or 5 crashes to fix before the end of this year, and they are quite difficult ones… We also need to complete two new in-game tutorials as well as the music of the 2D example game.

You can –>> Wishlist the SHMUP Creator <<– on steam if you like!

See you!
S.

[Gradius Day]

Yesterday was Gradius Day!
It's the 36th anniversary of this game, which is the reason I'm working on my project.

I created part of one of Gradius level with the SHMUP Creator: it was fun and pretty quick.





S.

Thanks!
I agree with the capsule impact: that's really hard to know what image to put on it, the SHMUP Creator being a tool, without a game aesthetic, or any game Art.

But I'll try another capsule in a few days.
S.

[wishlist]

The Steam store and the trailer are live! (At last...)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289520/SHMUP_Creator/

If you are interested in this project, please wishlist!

Hi!

We are working hard on the announcement trailer and the Steam store page for the SHMUP Creator.
At last!
That’s really exciting, and a little bit frightening too

See you in a few days!
S.

[MARCH UPDATE - TOUHOU PATTERNS]

Link to the original post: http://bulostudio.com/2021/04/08/march-update-4/



MARCH UPDATE - TOUHOU PATTERNS

PATTERNS MONTH!
Last month I decided to recreate patterns inspired by Touhou games.
It was interesting: sometimes it’s impossible to recreate them in the SHMUP Creator (Touhou is using a complex scripting system more akin to computer code), sometimes I found and corrected bugs but most of the time I was positively surprised by our Weapon Editor and what we can achieve with only a mouse moving some sliders.
With only a few settings and some smart uses of the Weapons and bullets features, I managed to create some complex patterns very close to the originals!


The Weapon editor:



Here are some of them:












See you!
S.

[January update]

Long time no see. Too long.
Link to the original post: http://bulostudio.com/2021/01/25/december-update-2/

January update

We are still in closed beta.
It’s hard to find the time to make as much progress as we would like, but we are still fixing bugs and adding small features to the SHMUP Creator.

MATERIAL EDITOR:
We added a material editor for 3D objects. It was a lot of work, but it was worth it!
You can choose textures, shininess, reflection for imported models and see the result in the editor.




NEW FEATURES:
We also added a lot of new features to the SHMUP Creator:
. Users can exclude levels from the final build. It allows people to keep test levels in their projects.
. Layers can be locked to prevent moving some objects.
. Some additional controls were added to the weapon editor: Charge Shots like in R-type, ways to have a Tap Weapon and a Hold Weapon, and Invincible Bullets
. A dead enemy can cancel its own bullets
. A new explosion component: light

NEXT:
We are now in 2021. Times flies!
June 2020 was the start of the beta, and was a huge achievement for us!
I really wanted to release the SHMUP Creator trailer before the end of the year, but couldn’t for a variety of reasons. This trailer, and opening the Steam store is still the next big milestone for us.

S.