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The Game

Rival Megagun is a competitive split-screen 2D shooter. Each player destroys baddies on their own screen while attacking the other player by launching debris, spawning enemies, and firing rockets and other attacks. Each playable ship has its own unique boss formation that can fly over to the opponent's screen, resulting in frantic head to head battles.


Release

November 29th, 2018 on Steam, Xbox One, Playstation 4, and Nintendo Switch.


Features

- 2-player local and online versus battles
- Single player arcade mode
- 6 playable ships, each with unique boss formations


Links

Website & Newsletter - This is the homepage for Rival Megagun. You can sign up for the newsletter here to get notified as soon as the game is available.

Twitter - Twitter is our most active social media outlet. We post all development, art, events, etc. here.

Blog - Detailed articles about the development of Rival Megagun.

Discord - Hang out and chat!

Steam Page - Add Rival Megagun to your wish list!

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Log #1 - Attack/Chain System

Your chain increases by destroying enemies in a short timespan. This automatically spawns debris and enemies on your opponent. Smaller chains may drop a bit of debris, and large chains could spawn a wave of drones to barrage your opponent with gunfire. This is called "Normal Attack".



As your chain grows, your power increases. Larger chains earn you more power. This power is stored in a reserve that can be used to fire your "Special Weapon" directly at your opponent.



If you achieve maximum power, you can use it all to trigger your "Super Attack". This transforms your ship into its boss formation.

[no1hitjam]

I dig those graphics, portraits are cool too. The first thing that jumps out to me is worrying about the big ship's hitbox. Is it just like a central pixel or is it the length of the nose? The current design doesn't make it quite clear.

[chrilley]

That looks amazing. I love a great arcade shooter/bullet hell so I'll be keeping an eye out for this one

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I dig those graphics, portraits are cool too. The first thing that jumps out to me is worrying about the big ship's hitbox. Is it just like a central pixel or is it the length of the nose? The current design doesn't make it quite clear.

Which ship are you referring to? The hitboxes are the same for each of the regular ships. Currently it's a circle with a diameter of 6 pixels. The hitboxes on the boss ships, however, vary depending on the size and shape of the ship, and generally span across the entire sprite.

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Log #2 - Stage 2
This is a couple of screenshots from a new stage we're working on.

This is your view as you ascend through Earth's atmosphere:




Player 2 uses a bomb to clear the screen:

[Xonatron]

Looking great (art & design). Following!

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Log #3 - Bullets

We've just added a whole bunch of new bullet types. This includes fireballs, rockets, laser beams, energy waves, and a variety of standard orb-like bullets.

Here's some gifs:








The bullets are also now coloured depending on where they came from. Alien bullets are orange, red, and pink. Bullets fired by player-spawned drones or player bosses are green and blue.

[DieMango]

Man...this looks damn nice!

I am useally against such overdesigned stuff but look good here. Maybe the dithering on the sprites a to much (but the sequencing on the attacks is awsome...sorry for nitpicking on the art D:)

[jg.camarasa]

The art, the design, the idea, I love everything about this. Subscribing so hard.

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Preview of some of the enemies and environments:

[xix]

This is looking pretty great. Get at it dudes.

[Xonatron]

Looking good!

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If anyone is attending BitSummit in Kyoto this weekend, Rival Megagun will be playable there.  

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Log #4 - Nested enemies

Lately we've mostly been working on refining the existing systems and pumping out content like stages and enemies. The newest function is nested enemies. That's enemies that can spawn more enemies. Here's a gif example:

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Log #5 - Mega Gunships

We've been super busy working on the playable ships. Here's a preview of some Mega Gunship transformations.


Transform sequence


Vacuum attack


Mega punch

[jg.camarasa]

I'll say it again: This is fucking awesome.

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I wanted to post a video but I can't embed this video on the forum unfortunately, so forgive my Twitter links.

Here's a gif preview:




- Short video here.

- Another video here (This one is a full round, but still pretty short because I'm bad at my own game apparently.)



We also now have a Discord server!

[flex$]

looking SLICK, love the GBA aesthetic and the design is looking fun. keep going.

[marcgfx]

Looks really cool and difficult I just followed you on twitter. Is there a single player mode too, or will you always need an opponent?