Guilty Gear -Strive- Open Beta_20210220014220 BuyMeThingsNow 2021-02-20 | store.playstation.com/#!/tid=CUSA24910_00
SAR: Search and Rescue 1cc BuyMeThingsNow 2020-12-08 | NOBODY KNOWS THE FACTSVery happy that I can still discover ancient arcade games that blow my mind with both the quality of their gameplay and aesthetics. SAR is another one for the ages, fantastic little title where the derelict station takes on a character and atmosphere of its own that makes it feel like a real location instead of an abstract twitch obstacle course...while functioning no less as a fantastic twitch obstacle course!Game is supposed to be played with a rotary trigger or something for aiming, but the emulator I'm playing on only has a button that allows me to lock my movement (either standing or in the current direction) while moving the d-pad for aim. This is a bit clunky as you can imagine, but I got used to it pretty fast.Something to note also is that the game doesn't spawn certain enemies and even obstacles like breakable floors/walls depending on what's been spawned or how fast you're going through. My playstyle for most of the game is rather speedy as a result.
Stage 1 Background WIP stuff BuyMeThingsNow 2020-02-03 | Not shown: eldritch horror bugmen.twitter.com/SquireGrooktook
Aeon Zenith - Stage 2 Preview BuyMeThingsNow 2019-08-17 | Featuring new music!New enemy sprites (those bug guys! the space ship looking shit is just placeholders)!Backgrounds!Rebalanced mechanics!The Mantis dude at the end is a miniboss, not a boss.I'll write a little more commentary when I wake up tommorow and am no longer sleepy~
Testing out new explosion sprite / animation BuyMeThingsNow 2017-12-20 | All purpose explosion for weapons, hitsparks, deaths, etc.By the way, if you want to follow my progress, I have a devlog on twitter which I post with very frequently:twitter.com/SquireGrooktook
First boss revised first phase BuyMeThingsNow 2017-09-23 | Nerfed the shit out of a ton of stuff, added more stuff. Most notable difference is I added destroyable parts (the snaky tail, and the two satellites on on the second pattern). Also shortened it up quite a bit.Destroyable parts was kind of a nightmare in terms of design. At least now I know how to better plan for boss/pattern design in the future.
More level design BuyMeThingsNow 2017-08-28 | New opening waves. Everything after 0:12 was actually a glitch where several different waves somehow got mashed into one. I kinda like it, probably gonna redesign it into an actual wave later.I drove myself slightly insane with the wave at 0:08. Being the first "real" pattern of the game, I got kind of obsessive compulsive with it and redesigned it like 80 times.I think the new one is kinda fun but easy enough for an opener? I dunno. A shame the recording is choppy, OBS keeps lagging on me lately.By the way, if you've just been following my project on Youtube, I also have devlogs on Tig Source Forums, Twitter, and Shmups Forum now. Take a look if you're interested, they contain concept art, plans, feedback, etc.forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=61914twitter.com/SquireGrooktookhttp://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=55927&start=90
Some revised Stage 1 Design BuyMeThingsNow 2017-07-24 | New way of scripting extra enemy waves, Newly created Devlog: forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=61914Enemies spawn faster, the faster you kill them. You can get a lot of extra enemies to appear, and a lot of extra points, if you're quick. It's a similar mechanic to the game Dangun Feveron.
Experimenting with new defensive (kinda) mechanic BuyMeThingsNow 2017-07-17 | You can use this to defend yourself against more difficult patterns, to a limited extent. Doing so will *REALLY* hurt your speedkill time (and therefore score).You can use it for scoring purposes, but you have to be up close and aggressive, and use it for its width, rather than its bullet cancelling properties.Music is Dark Legacy from Beatmania.
Demo Boss: Perfect Scoreplay BuyMeThingsNow 2017-06-18 | Was originally going to have breakable parts too but I didn't have enough time before appointed date. Judgment mechanic temporarily taken out for reasons so it's missing that too.You need to kill the boss in 75 seconds to trigger the speedkill bonus.Last pattern is a fuck. Moreso because you have to melee it very aggressively in order to get it to expose it's tech bonus/weakpoint on the last teleport.OBS decided to lag on the boss explosion, but you can still view it on the last video I uploaded.Overall, needs a lot of work.Music is Atolm Dragon battle from Panzer Dragoon Saga
Getting there! BuyMeThingsNow 2017-06-06 | One more attack/phase to go + lots of bug fixes and balance tweaks.
Boss 1 WIP - Recode BuyMeThingsNow 2017-06-01 | -Told everyone I would make it easier-Made it harder instead"Angle brackets aren't allowed in your description."Gah fuck
TELEPORT BuyMeThingsNow 2017-05-03 | DO I FRIGHTEN YOUPlayin' around with some enemy ai inspired by Dragoon/Stalker micro in Starcraft.They run/teleport away from you if you try to line your shots up with them, and move in to point blank you with the triangle shot if you stop being aggressive.I swear that was OBS recording lagging at the end, not my game.
Minor Bug Fixes + Screen Transition into enemy debug room BuyMeThingsNow 2017-03-31 | You came to the wrong debug room motherfucker.
Title Screen (for now) BuyMeThingsNow 2017-03-29 | Would you believe it took a week and a half to do this (with feedback). THAT FUCKING REFLECTION BECAME DESYNCED SO MANY FUCKING TIMES.Anyway gonna get back to the core gameplay now. I thought I wanted to take a break from it, but now I absolutely don't want to script titles and menus anymore :P
Game Over Concept/Prototyping BuyMeThingsNow 2017-03-19 | Volume Warning: Watch out for ringing ear fuck (placeholder, in fact I'm removing it NOW').
Contra_Style_Enemy_Spawning.flv BuyMeThingsNow 2017-03-17 | Friend sent me his platformer engine and I went berserk as usual.Enemies spawn from the screen edges and search for the y location of the nearest available platform, which they are then assigned to.
shadow_blade.mp4 BuyMeThingsNow 2017-03-16 | I'm actually a succubus irl pls don't tell anyone the church is still hunting me
Not perfect yet but this is closer to what I originally planned BuyMeThingsNow 2017-03-12 | Only thing good to come out of FE Heroes was a burst of new Lucina fan art tbh
Glitched_Explosion.avi BuyMeThingsNow 2017-03-12 | We have come to terms(also I forgot to redo the screenshake again lol)
Prototyping another effect-ALT BuyMeThingsNow 2017-03-08 | Not sure if it looks better with the shorter flash or not.
Prototyping another effect BuyMeThingsNow 2017-03-08 | One time I accidentally left some recording software on overnight and now I have an 80 gb video file of a black screen that refuses to go into the recycle bin.
Screwing around with some background stuff BuyMeThingsNow 2017-03-07 | Why do throws do chip-tier damage in Waku Waku 7? GARBAGE.Also I fucking love Touhou 3 for using this effect (stars turning to imply a curving path of the player). I think I should use a Sine wave though. Everything is better with sine waves.
Experimenting with some prototype weapon effects and flicker BuyMeThingsNow 2017-03-06 | I was combing through 60 pages of hentai galleries for every work tagged with "tomboy" and came across a story with great art but a story so depressing yet effective that I think my whole day is ruined now. Damn.
Afterimage WIP BuyMeThingsNow 2017-02-24 | This is for when hyper mode aka Judgment is active only. Not regular movement.Not sure about this. Toying with going for oldschool flicker only instead of alpha transparency fade out. Might also experiment later with a more thorough palletization of the sprite instead of a total white out.Feedback appreciated.
Pseudo 3d Sprite Distortion Effects BuyMeThingsNow 2017-02-17 | This was inspired by the "mode 7" style of 16-bit sprite-based effects, particularly those utilized by Taito's arcade games (Darius and Metal Black, in particular).There are no actual 3d models or textures employed here. These are entirely 2d sprite based effects, only dealing in x and y coordinates, given the illusion of 3 dimensions via the magic of math formulas, parallax, and scaling effects.Special thanks to Trap15 for helping me figure out the finer points of the code.
Taito Bendy Lasers! BuyMeThingsNow 2017-02-06 | Replicating the effect a bit more closely.Obviously in the games there were a ton of variations of these using different speeds, acceleration rates, turn rates, etc. This is more a demonstration of the aesthetic and physics of the trail, which weren't quite the same in earlier videos.
Tech Roll and Revenge Attack BuyMeThingsNow 2017-01-07 | Not shown: actual rolling sprites. We'll get to that.The Echo attack is actually inspired by Giglamesh's "Gate of Babylon" signature attack from Fate/Stay Night. So here, have Giglamesh theme for bgm: youtube.com/watch?v=1noAbSs0JesOh yeah, there's also a subtle sprite based pseudo-particle effect on that one explosion from the two blasts intersecting. Doubt you can see on Youtube though. I might consider making the "particle" sprites a bit bigger (1x1 sized dots currently lol)
Prototype Stage 1 BuyMeThingsNow 2017-01-07 | Normally I'd video annotate this but it's a pain in the ass and its 8 am and I'm tired so check the spoiler here instead: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?p=1233591#p1233591I'm not very good at scoring. It took me an hour to get a good score run of my own stage :'('
This character is fun! fun! BuyMeThingsNow 2016-11-18 | Any normal (except S.HK) cancels into command dash, and command dash can be cancelled into any special or super (including the command throw ones).CHAOS CODE -NEW SIGN OF CATASTROPHE-store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/tid=CUSA05134_00
Chaos Code is pretty fun BuyMeThingsNow 2016-11-15 | First netplay win.Saw someone playing this on stream, and had to pick it up. Was worth the emotional roller coaster ride of figuring out how to navigate and purchase from JP PSN.Also when I found out you could play as the daughter of Cthulhu, the immediate question that comes to mind is "why would I *not* play this character?"Bionic Commando Cammy is a cutie too thoカオスコード -ニューサインオブカタストロフィ-store.playstation.com/#!/ja-jp/tid=CUSA05134_00
Roar, from the blasted heavens BuyMeThingsNow 2016-09-25 | Everything is a placeholder except the player character and his main shot.Balancing still being done. Will probably lock in some things once first stage is done (90% done).
Mini Boss WIP BuyMeThingsNow 2016-08-19 | Dual monitor set ups are nice. I get to keep useful formula and documents open while working, and watch hentai while I wait for the programs to finish compiling.
Super fun boss BuyMeThingsNow 2016-05-20 | DARK SOULS™ IIIstore.playstation.com/#!/en-us/tid=CUSA03388_00
As many homing projectiles as a Taito boss BuyMeThingsNow 2016-05-06 | DARK SOULS™ IIIstore.playstation.com/#!/en-us/tid=CUSA03388_00
