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boghog

4 years

The first demo of #MechanicalStarAstra is out, folks! Hope you have fun, and if you do share it around! Developed together with @CHARLENEMAXIMUM , @9_ballll and @planetapolilla & featuring some awesome boss music by @Qwesta6

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3 months

I wish gamers realized how much of game design is about tradeoffs - choosing the lesser of two evils. Theres an implicit idea that games can be everything, but something gotta give. Sometimes mechanics/dynamics are contradictory on a theoretical level, not just practical

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2 months

Algo changes, you say? Let's see Added Guwange Gun into my game, can't even imagine which context I'll use it in but it simply has to be in

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@boghogooo

27 days

When an indie dev says "Player onboarding" "Retention" "Gameplay Loop" "Metagame" "Engagement" A bit too much

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@boghogooo

10 days

Working on my successor to the famous Footsies Skeleton, except as a boss fight

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@boghogooo

20 days

Added a spin throw! And packed the enemies & player like sardines to show this off

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@boghogooo

2 months

New enemy type specifically made for the shmuppy segments + fixed the bullets. Something I've learned making shmups is to avoid circular bullets, specially for aimed attacks Also having fun with the portrait 😏 #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

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@boghogooo

3 years

It's pseudo 3D time! Always wanted to add something like this and finally got around to it, can't wait to play around with it some more #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

1 year

The boss' first phase is coming together, it's basically just Punchout #gamedev #indiedev #BeatEmUp #shmup

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@boghogooo

9 months

It's hard to find real shmups in SHMUP FEST so I figured I should make a list of my own These are general steam recommendations. All of them are good but unfortunately they're not all on sale right now, not even my beloved Psyvariar... Yellow ones are particularly great

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@boghogooo

3 months

Starting to flesh out the game's shmup elements a bit. With the new ammo system all I have to do is give the player a big pickup and boom, shmuppin time. Also to avoid the "vertizontal" issue I can prob just box the player in during the more shmup like segments

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@boghogooo

4 months

It's been on my mind lately so I gotta say, I fucking love BallisticNG. Everyone should play it I have not played a racing game that felt better. The feeling of seamlessly gliding through the track when you're doing well is just so gooooooooooooooooood

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@boghogooo

3 years

Added some coral & beefed up enemies for fun, the sea bed's really heating up. The desire to work on an extra procgen survival mode grows... #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

22 days

2D beat em ups gotta stop ripping off SOR4 and Shredder's Revenge and dig at least a tiny bit deeper. I'm surprised no one's done a Knight of the Round clone considering parries are all the rage nowadays. Just take that game, add a dedicated parry button, spruce up VFX, boom

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@boghogooo

4 years

Back with some new explosions, medals, tiles and various gameplay/visual tweaks! The area will continue getting more populated & detailed @CHARLENEMAXIMUM #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

17 days

It's over. I added KOF sound effects as placeholders and they're beyond perfect. Gonna have to wipe my tears as I replace them 1 by 1 later down the line 🥹 Maybe someone knows any similar oldschool sfx sample packs I could get...?

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@boghogooo

3 years

Started going over the enemies with the goal of making them more interesting. The mechs can now dodge out of the way of your shots and will generally act "smarter" pestering you in a variety of ways #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

3 years

Added some bigger enemies in between the high speed ship waves. The first half of the level is starting to come together #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

1 month

Take your favorite beat 'em up. Now take its default moveset and lock it behind $$$ requirements that can't be achieved until late game. Then dish out a variety of objectively worse (worse frame data/properties/priority/stats/less iframes) versions of them throughout the campaign

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@boghogooo

2 years

I made a small game/prototype recently for #gunnerparade22winter ! Get it here : It's a "speedrunning"-based shmup with a bunch of beat em up elements

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@boghogooo

2 months

Ppl who are tired of low engagement content being used to pad out game runtimes are not ready for what's coming. The tolerances and lack of respect for their own time that gacha players have make AAA ubisoft open worlds seem like arcade games, and they're reaching critical mass

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@boghogooo

3 months

Seeing the new Contra just casually add a 360 aiming option as an unimportant side feature made me miss the more innocent times when devs got so excited about tech that the presence of an analog stick would make them design entire games around it. We gotta mentally regress

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@boghogooo

4 years

The mech got its own time attack mission, focused around quickly killing waves of tougher enemies. All about abusing those iframes. Less than 3 weeks left until the demo! @CHARLENEMAXIMUM #screenshotsaturday #shmuptober #pixelart #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

4 years

After all this time in development, the game finally got a name - MECHANICAL STAR ASTRA! Also, here's some co-op #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #gamedev #indiedev

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@boghogooo

4 years

Maybe its not the best way to show off features but heres more co-op! Remade the red ships weapons. The flamethrowers range did not work as I wanted so instead I shamelessly took Ketsui's lock on cuz it's cool #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #indiedev #gamemaker

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@boghogooo

2 months

Another reminder that if youre a beat em up or shmup dev, you should spend time learning to 1cc (but better yet score/speed/challenge run) some games in the genres. Its so valuable that you simply cant make excuses. Instead of watching some crap vid essay, do some practice

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@boghogooo

3 years

Here is a rough early version of a special mech unit designed specifically to ruin your day. He's tough, unpredictable, extremely evasive, extremely aggressive and is immune to direct damage from special attacks. #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

4 years

Getting really into the process of making extra Star Soldier-style time attack missions, at this rate the demo will have close to a full shmup's worth of content! #shmuptober #pixelart #shmup #stg #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

3 years

Destructible train :D Layout wise the first half of the level is really coming together, just gotta stop putting off working on the backgrounds now... #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

1 year

Trying to claim the title of "first shmup with a piledriver". Also been trying some character designs, almost certainly gonna change down the line #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #shmup #indiedev

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@boghogooo

1 month

Alright enough shitposts, it's time to talk about the real stuff. Here's me gushing about aspects of Devil Blade's visuals and noting down stuff that basically every shmup dev should learn & internalize. It's the best looking shmup in AGES & is v modern

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@boghogooo

3 months

Do you know who designed the combat of your top 5 action games? And I don't mean the person listed in the director/designer role necessarily, cuz they will be more in charge of the more general ideas. This role tends to be delegated to Just Some Dude that's barely credited

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@boghogooo

6 months

It feels like a lot of beat em up devs suffer from the same problem as euroshmup devs - they don't play the damn games enough. Pls devs I beg you, 1cc some arcade bmups/harder modes in console bmups, youll get more out of it than any game design article/vid you can find online

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@boghogooo

3 years

Added bendy lasers, seeking missiles, new helicopter patterns/movement and slightly less nuts mech AI. If you're wondering what the heli's doing underwater don't worry about it, pretend it's a stingray #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

4 years

More stage 1 design. It opens up with a cloud section, which is a caravan-style intro with some preset big carrier-type ships. A very high energy opening! @CHARLENEMAXIMUM #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

1 month

Bless this man. A sane man in the insane, blighted pit that is gaming/the industry where the devs feel entitled to the player's time and an army of idiots get mad if you suggest that time wasting should be opt-in

AUTOMATON WEST

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1 month

Masahiro Sakurai emphasizes “not wasting a second of the player’s time” in games The creator once abandoned having his game support Dolby Surround audio because he didn't want to display the Dolby logo for longer than a second before the game starts

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5 months

Alright after a bunch of research I've made a doc breaking down enemy AI patterns. Primarily for devs but it might be useful for players too

BEAT EM UP ENEMY AI 101

Art by David Liu This is a guide of enemy behaviours in beat 'em ups, similar to my SHMUP WORKSHOP videos, or my Bullet Hell 101 doc. The goal is to identify & codify a bunch of concepts that will...

docs.google.com

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@boghogooo

9 months

Developer interviews suck. Interviewers could ask all kinds of interesting game design questions and really shake some golden nuggets out of some of the best devs around. Instead they just ask useless trivia style questions like they're trying to hit the min word count

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@boghogooo

2 months

Maybe Im just in a bubble but it feels like the Sonic fandom is one of the very rare fandoms that still feels like oldschool internet fandoms where theyre productive & creative and extend their passion outside of the games. Even big IPs now feel dead & purely consumption oriented

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@boghogooo

4 years

Work on the demo continues! This week I focused on making the scoring system clearer, improving the tutorials, making music and adding/fleshing out basic features like the scoreboard #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

3 years

Trying out an exciting idea - an item wheel! With this, you'll be able to store and use a lot of different types of single use items (bombs, healing, energy & more wacky stuff) whenever you want. #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

2 months

Speaking of bloated games which are 2 preoccupied with padding over creating meaningful gameplay, The Electric Underground's review of Stellar Blade is premiering and it's gonna be a really spicy vid, on top of being the only actual review of the game online. Hop in 👇

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@boghogooo

3 years

Gave in and started workin on a procgen survival mode, so far the system is very simple but promising. The special weapons, iframes and cancels make it surprisingly fair even when things get crazy #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

4 years

Ship redesign! Don't miss the little animation when charging the subweapon (0:03). Also spent tons of time remaking the intro stage, using the caravan system and other neat stuff I've been working on. @CHARLENEMAXIMUM #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #gamedev #indiedev

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@boghogooo

3 years

I made a small game for #BulletHellJam2021 . It's split into night and day, each lasting 10 seconds. Quick-kill skeletons, spawn lots of ghosts and cash them out during daytime. The goal is to earn enough coins and buy back your soul Get it here :

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@boghogooo

26 days

I dunno what I expected with my last post but I certainly didnt expect to see Roblox devs talking like theyre 60 year old vets whose spirit has been pulverized and buried 6 feet under by the cynical soulless nature of the industry. What the hell is Roblox doing to the kids

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@boghogooo

3 years

Wait a sec...could it possibly be...??? Merry christmas!

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@boghogooo

3 years

Continuing working on the underwater highway. Before you can catch up to the train, you'll have to fight off very dangerous, high speed enemy ships #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

2 years

Just finished a Shmup 101 doc I had lying around for ages. It's sloppy but it goes over everything from basic movement to level & scoring system design. Been wanting to finish it for a while now but never got the chance to.

BULLET HELL SHMUP DESIGN 101

BULLET HELL SHMUP DESIGN 101 A glossary to get you started : https://shmups.wiki/library/Help:Glossary This doc covers the fundamental aspects of designing a bullet hell (danmaku) shmup. This is...

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@boghogooo

4 years

Guess who decided to make a guest appearance in a very janky WIP form, #BULLETSORCERESS Still cleaning things up but the dev pace is starting to pick back up, expect more frequent updates #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

5 months

In beat em up style games, devs' efforts to avoid jank/friction & them wanting to force "quiet time" in level design is funneling them into design that segregates combat and your interactions with complex terrain into discrete chunks instead of having them play off each other

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@boghogooo

3 months

Redesigned the main character of Decobot to fit the new cleaning theme! Probably not quite done yet but this is more or less how she'll look like. Massive thanks to @planetapolilla for the help!

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@boghogooo

4 years

Making the third and (probably) final ship. It's very different, relies on melee attacks and invincible dashes. Mechanics/art are in an early stage, a lot going to change @CHARLENEMAXIMUM #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #gamedev #indiedev

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@boghogooo

2 months

If you're in a hardcore gaming community, love complaining about the shitty state of game reviews, the opinions of casuals & modern games in general please consider making content urself and engage with people in places that are alive, ie outside of discords & messageboards

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@boghogooo

2 months

Vanquish getting claimed by char action fans is insane. TPS fans finally got a W and it was taken from them 😔

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@boghogooo

5 months

The Electric Underground shaved off years of his life making this ultimate shmup manifesto, really great vid that covers so many great aspects of shmups & arcade games. Link 👇 And I'm not just saying it cause I get a segment

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@boghogooo

3 years

I've been actively helping @ngdevteam design their latest shmup, go check it out & share it around!

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3 years

We're proud to announce that our first HD shmup Gunvein is in the works and will be released for PC/NSW/PS4/XB in 2022 Footage is WIP / on youtube in 1080p #gunvein #shmup #switchcorps

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@boghogooo

4 years

Did some under the hood stuff, tweaked the red ship's special weapons, and ENHANCED GAME FEEL. Here's my very clumsy attempt to choreograph some sick 2 player moves with a friend #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker

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3 months

This is really obvious in beat em ups - people want games that have 2000 moves which occupy unique niches + interact with each other AND are balanced. Enemies that have strong reactive states to everything but are threatening 1 on 1 AND ALSO work well in groups

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4 months

Ever since I removed weapons/weapon swapping, I've been stuck in tweaking & fiddling limbo. Trying to adjust my game's moveset to make it make sense without being able to proceed into making content. But FINALLY, I *think* the moveset revamp is starting to come together

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@boghogooo

4 years

Working on a hard mode for the upcoming demo (next month, be ready!) and finally made some music. Lots of bullets = lots of potential medal drops = lots of iframes! @CHARLENEMAXIMUM #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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1 year

Started working on a big dude, right now the moveset's quite primitive but I intend on letting this guy chase you around and pester you no matter where you are on the screen! Added an item wheel + EMP nades as well #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #BeatEmUp #shmup

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@boghogooo

3 months

Solo arcade game dev goals

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@boghogooo

4 years

Level design continues. Working on a highway section as you approach the stage boss. Featuring a lot of cars to blow up and scattered, loose enemy spawns. Perhaps all the movement is a bit too chaotic? #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #gamedev #indiedev

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@boghogooo

9 months

Since halloween's coming up, I'll take this as an opportunity to remind everyone that you should play Ghosts N Goblins Resurrection - the best action platformer ever :D Metronome turbo mode + some skulls makes run n guns feel tame

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@boghogooo

3 months

You want crazy fast mobility & a large play area but also want oppressive enemies and spacing that truly matters? You want 100% fair reactable attacks but also predictive gameplay? You want a lot of RNG/chaos + snowballing but no checkmate situations ever?

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3 months

Nothing makes me wanna drop a game more than me doing well & winning despite not understanding any of the mechanics or wtf I'm even doing. Just an awful, awful experience. It's like failing upward

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3 months

Characters who are completely unique in terms of gameplay but equivalent in terms of difficulty/scoring potential? Strong universal mechanics but also incredibly unique char archtypes? Everything's in a constant state of tension, you tweak one thing 5 other things get destroyed

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4 years

Awesome new enemy sprites coming through. Finished the 3rd time attack stage of the demo. Between the missions and arcade mode, the demo (end of THIS MONTH) will have 14+ min of shmupping! @CHARLENEMAXIMUM #shmuptober #pixelart #shmup #stg #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

4 months

Gamespot's Penny's Big Breakaway review is absolutely baffling, what the fuck are they saying 🥹🥹🥹🔫

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4 years

The moveset is coming together. The sword did not work so well on bosses, so now the mech has a long ranged charged slash. Taking the boss apart piece by piece is a whole procedure now! #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #gamedev #indiedev

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@boghogooo

3 years

Possibly the beginnings of a new level taking place underwater, very excited about this one! Excuse the very rough bg sketch #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

15 days

The fact that nobody in the shmup space is really building on Gun.Smoke's gameplay at all is insane to me. Capcom created a whole new fundamental framework for a shmup subgenre - reactive enemies with proper AI, "footsies" esque gameplay, very dynamic & fast paced

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@boghogooo

4 months

Just wrote a post about fighting restart syndrome in games that shmup devs in particular might find interesting

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@boghogooo

11 months

This game is incredible, prob my fav from CAVE. There is absolutely nothing like it ANYWHERE. Its like a very unique, seamless mix of shmup & cabal shooter. The shiki slows down + wipes away bullet and while a lesser game might have tied it to a meter, Guwange does no such thing

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@shmupdb

11 months

Guwange is a shmup STG by Cave and Atlus for arcades released in 1999, JP mobile in 2003 and Xbox 360 in 2010. Stage scrolling switches between vertical and vertical/sideways. Players command a Shikigami that can move independently and slow down bullets. Requested by @MewJAM_

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5 months

Working on more proper enemy AI after being stuck for a while. They still need a lot of work but I think the basic ideas is there - some chaotic & fun but fairly manipulateable "footsies"

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4 years

This week Ive been practicing CAVE style level design, varying up patterns and generally playing with the games difficulty. Also some badass new cube, enemy and bg art by @CHARLENEMAXIMUM #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker

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3 months

After avoiding it for a while I've decided to say screw it and just add ammo. The guns are normally tied to health (u can recover health Bloodborne/SOR4 style) but it discouraged use With this, most of the pieces are in place & Im ready for the art revamp + MORE CONTENT

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4 years

Mech on mech action! Get close & strategically break parts to recharge your energy and get medals for iframes. Patterns will prob change a lot as @CHARLENEMAXIMUM creates more animations #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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4 years

The carriers got updated, they now have destructible parts which can be used to convert enemy bullets into gold cubes. The medal combo trail is also longer now @CHARLENEMAXIMUM #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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4 months

Another shmup related post. The Gunvein commentary made me realize that I never actually talked about what makes bullet patterns hard in a good way before, so I gotta compensate

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@boghogooo

1 year

Adding a new enemy type. They use short-ish ranged electric beams and will represent the game's main melee archetype #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #BeatEmUp #shmup

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3 months

Another shmup-related post! You often hear fundies this fundies that, but it's hard to appreciate how tight well iterated sets of fundies are without seeing how easy it is to break them by tweaking seemingly small things.

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1 year

Starting work on the first boss or midboss. Once I get the visuals & basic mechanics out of the way, designing it should be very fun since I've got so many mechanics to play around with😎 #gamedev #indiedev #BeatEmUp #shmup

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@boghogooo

2 months

Now that roguelike inspired stuff is in vogue I think it's time to say that criticism of unfairness in games is archaic and the byproduct of a bygone "first playthrough's the most important playthrough" era/mentality

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1 month

Pearl posted an awesome guide for Muchi Muchi Pork. Def check it out & play the game cause MMP is awesome and its not just the pig bias - its a really simple, easy to get into & fun hybrid of Yagawa's style (Battle Gregga) & CAVE

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29 days

Hell yeah! A bit of game design doesn't have to involve any real money what so ever to be deeply cynical & manipulative. And if you allow scummy stuff just cuz it's free, it's inevitable that developers will make you pay for it eventually - they aren't stupid and they gotta eat

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I fucking hate battlepasses I don't care if they're "fair" or if you can "unlock the whole thing without paying money" I just kind of hate them in general

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3 years

The survival modes randomized nature isnt a good fit for scoring, so instead youll be able to use the gold cubes you collect to buy items in shops which appear every now and then to break up the action #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

3 years

Have more free time so I'm getting back into the groove! Fleshed out the item wheel, cleaned up the AI of the mechs and added a popcorn variant that's easily stunlockable (placeholder graphics) #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

4 years

Level design & tweaking continues. Also replaced almost all of my old projectiles/effects with @CHARLENEMAXIMUM 's renditions, added spinning options and beefed up the special laser beam! #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #shmup #stg #BulletHell #arcade #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker

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@boghogooo

6 months

Btw Ghosts N Goblins Resurrection is on a hefty sale on steam right now. Best action platformer ever that everyone should play even if they end up not liking it because it's a style of game that basically does not exist anymore - chaos driven arcade action platformer

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@boghogooo

6 days

I wish practice modes were on people's radars more, both gamers and gamedevs. It feels like at the same time as games get bigger & more complicated their practice tools go backwards to a point where even encounter/boss/stage select is becoming like water in a desert.

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@boghogooo

1 month

Shmup/arcade devs, please make a press kit and make it easily accessible. And some character art to boot, even if it's not in-game. You have no idea how annoying it is to make thumbnails and not have anything to work with. Making thumbnails for The Electric Underground taught me

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@boghogooo

4 years

Here's more of the time attack stage & a sick new track by @9_ballll who's helping with the music. Less than a week left until the demo, exciting times! #shmuptober #pixelart #gamedev #shmup #indiedev #MechanicalStarAstra

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@boghogooo

1 year

Look at these little dudes go! They're already mad annoying and they barely even have any moves Also beginninng to add extra weapons, starting with a hammer that can hit knocked down enemies, hoping to get more creative from there #gamedev #shmup #indiedev

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@boghogooo

9 months

The Electric Underground's about to post a recommendations vid for SHMUP FEST. This vid will cover steam deck compatibility so if you're playing on the deck, def tune in. Link 👇