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[AD1337]

Particles! 

[Gueib]

Particles! 

PARTY-CLES

[Beaulamb1992]

This is looking pretty fun man! 

[NinthPower]

Hey this is cool. I love shmups! One thought - the ship doesn't really look like it's moving, it just looks like the background is moving. You may try speeding up the background, slowing down your player movement, and/or making the ship move slower when moving backwards. That last one will help no matter what. LOOKING SWEET!

[Gueib]

This is looking pretty fun man! 

Hey, thanks!

Hey this is cool. I love shmups! One thought - the ship doesn't really look like it's moving, it just looks like the background is moving. You may try speeding up the background, slowing down your player movement, and/or making the ship move slower when moving backwards. That last one will help no matter what. LOOKING SWEET!

Thanks for the advice! I really appreciate it.

[Gueib]

Here's the first boss! A fat alien.
(All of them are.)

[Gueib]

Been working a little on the first boss. I'm really busy lately, so the weekend is the only free time I have to dev. ):

Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/tNi2JnO.png

[Gueib]

Here's the boss' three actions, apart from shooting directly at the player.
I since removed the delay of the second pattern.

[Gueib]

Changed first action:


I also made the tapes you're supposed to collect to gain the ability to spawn the next boss.

[AD1337]

Looking nice. Did you put the color changes on hold or give up on them?

[Gueib]

Currently on hold. I acknowledge the fact that I suck choosing colors, so I guess I'll just postpone it as much as I can.

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

I love shmups (I'm spending a fair bit of my time pursuing the world record on one at the moment!) and I really like the look of this. Shield is a very nice mechanic. I would definitely have it always reflect - I think a lot of shmups live/die on their one special mechanic, and some way to bounce certain shots back could add a ton of strategy to the game.

[devMidgard]

Following, looks pretty interesting, also try to implement that multiplayer coop!

Why do I keep thinking that the "faster" stars are rain? :\

[Gueib]

I love shmups (I'm spending a fair bit of my time pursuing the world record on one at the moment!) and I really like the look of this. Shield is a very nice mechanic. I would definitely have it always reflect - I think a lot of shmups live/die on their one special mechanic, and some way to bounce certain shots back could add a ton of strategy to the game.

Wow, good luck on the world record! Thanks for the feedback too. I'll do some tests with the shield always reflecting shots, it does sound better.

Following, looks pretty interesting, also try to implement that multiplayer coop!

Why do I keep thinking that the "faster" stars are rain? :\

Thanks! I think I'll do that later in development. Lately I've been quite busy.

By the way, the stars DO look like rain. Maybe I'll take them out.

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

Wow, good luck on the world record! Thanks for the feedback too. I'll do some tests with the shield always reflecting shots, it does sound better.

Haha, thank you! I'm #4 in the world currently after a couple of years. We'll see how it goes. Anyway, I was thinking the shield could turn it into something akin to a "dual-stick" shmup - if it can only reflect x bullets, maybe, then you want to try and reflect the most powerful bullets, and if points are dependent on speed of killing enemies or maybe what you kill them with, the player could need to use reflected bullets in certain situations and not just think about dodging + shooting, but also what bullets they should be using their shields to reflect.

[sam_suite]

I'm #4 in the world currently after a couple of years.

Wow, what game?

[Gueib]

Haha, thank you! I'm #4 in the world currently after a couple of years. We'll see how it goes. Anyway, I was thinking the shield could turn it into something akin to a "dual-stick" shmup - if it can only reflect x bullets, maybe, then you want to try and reflect the most powerful bullets, and if points are dependent on speed of killing enemies or maybe what you kill them with, the player could need to use reflected bullets in certain situations and not just think about dodging + shooting, but also what bullets they should be using their shields to reflect.

The shield as of now is based on the stats provided by your current body equipped. The body decides the amount of time it stays enabled and its cooldown. Every enemy in the game have a trigger that turns them red and only makes them damage-able through reflected shots. I'm planning on making shots ricocheting in certain enemies and probably will implement a boss where you need reflect shots in a specific order to disable some kind of shield and then be able to damage him.

Both the shield and hacking mechanic can be explored quite a bit, but since I'm not through the game's foundations yet, I'm making little progress on this matter.


Regarding dual-sticks, here's something I made a couple of days ago, when I decided to try-out Joystick support:



Current mappings:

A - Activate Shield;
Left Stick - Movement;
Right Stick - Shield/Hack angle;
Right Trigger - Shoot;
Left Trigger - Hack;

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

Wow, what game?

This thing (not me playing, this video is one of the developers):

The shield as of now is based on the stats provided by your current body equipped. The body decides the amount of time it stays enabled and its cooldown. Every enemy in the game have a trigger that turns them red and only makes them damage-able through reflected shots. I'm planning on making shots ricocheting in certain enemies and probably will implement a boss where you need reflect shots in a specific order to disable some kind of shield and then be able to damage him.

Those are all awesome ideas. Having bosses or parts of bosses that can only be hit with reflected bullets sounds like a really nice idea. From the gif, I really like how you've implemented the dual-stick-ness, that's exactly the kind of thing I was thinking. My hype has only increased! Quick question - how big is your hitbox? Is it the size of that middle rectangle on the player ship, or smaller?

[Gueib]

Thanks a lot, dude! I feel really rewarded with this kind of comment.

The hitbox is a bit smaller. I'm using a square tilted 45 degrees and its vertices barely touch the smaller rectangle. Do you have any advice regarding collision boxes?

EDIT: As promised.

[Gueib]

Finished boss spawning. There's still dialogue, but I'll have to plan it better before getting my hands dirty.

Boss spawning basically destroys every opponent in the screen and spawns a random boss based on your current difficulty level. Eventually it will lead to dialogue then battle.

I'm also flirting with the idea of showing a progress bar when the shield is activated that indicates the amount of remaining time it has to stay on.