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[BadgerManufactureInc]

Play SpaceGate at Newgrounds.

Play SpaceGate at Odo Games.

SpaceGate is a vertical scrolling shoot-em-up, inspired by the NES era of shooters such as Astro Warrior and bullet hell games like Xenon 2 and Cave.  

Self Destruct and some other games such as Arcanacra also inspired this game.

Lots of bullets, pixels, and an Alien race.  Pretty explosive stuff, I hope.

Space Gate has been released at Odo Games....



Play SpaceGate at Odo Games.

The game has also been featured on 8bitrocket.  Review of SpaceGate.  Where I wrote a tutorial for the enemy movement:

Tutorial by Badger.





More info on the game can be found here.



Controls
Press 'p' or escape to pause
Change the color filter while paused.
Change the volume levels while paused.

Arcade
Arrow keys or w,a,s,d to move or mouse.
Firing is auto.

Survival
Arrow keys to move WASD to aim
Mouse to move arrow keys to aim

Features
Take control of 5 space stations over 3 difficulty levels.
Over 25 enemy types including 5 bosses and 5 mini bosses, with different attack formations.
Frame rate adjuster: press - and + to add or subtract 10 frames to the frame rate during play.
Mouse navigated gui featuring LCD font.
Gameboy inspired color screen filter during pause.
3 powerup types, cannon missile and side.
High score table integration will be added upon finding a sponsor depending on their domain requirements.
Single life survival mode to be added featuring randomly generated assets and map with increasing difficulty.
Map in between levels scolls to show a preview.
The engine is bespoke and I am doing final tests on the explosion effect, side shot, difficulty modes and procedural survival mode.

My deadline is mid august at which point I will be working on another game.

[lnsine]

It looks beautifully simplistic. I love these kinds of games 

[ness io kain]

These graphics are very nice.
I love the colors especially.

[BadgerManufactureInc]

Thanks. Without giving too much away..

Difficulty modes have been worked on as I've been playtesting a lot.  

The reasons that made me want to put the difficulty selection screen after you click newgame instead of main menu options:

-It is not obvious to change this from options
-Options are fine as just volume controls
-Procedural mode will definately benefit from the difficulty selection before each new game

Here is how it looks now:



[edit] I just added survival mode with randomly generated aliens and slowly increasing level of pace.  It has 4 way movement and plays more like Robotron or Gamma Bros.

Survival mode controls

Type A: Arrow keys to move and WASD to aim
Type B: Mouse to move and arrow keys to aim

[BadgerManufactureInc]

Monochrome screen filter

[moonmagic]

The attention to detail is impressive. I like how you've managed the feel of a Xevious- or Zanac-style game without the annoying artifacts of that era (huge hitboxes, monotonous enemy patterns).

[BadgerManufactureInc]

Thanks for the kind feedback moonmagic.  I'm enjoying seeing your latest project on here develop too

Space Gate has been released at Odo Games....



Play SpaceGate at Odo Games.

The game has also been featured on 8bitrocket.  Review of SpaceGate.  Where I wrote a tutorial for the enemy movement:

Tutorial by Badger.

[BadgerManufactureInc]

Thanks to everyone from Tigs who has tried my game/been supportive of it!

Space Gate was lucky enough to reach an awesome score on Newgrounds, and is still in the running for a weekly prize on Kongregate (hint hint..)  

The top score is 2,000,000,000 which must have taken around 10 hours.


Good times!

Badger