This is an interesting conversation for sure, but getting back on topic, have you played the Knight Witch? I know I tried to convey how it's like playing the game in my posts, but really the best way to understand what I'm saying is to play it. I think BulletMagnet said there's a demo available on Steam.Technicolor wrote:It goes without saying that this forum has a bad habit of scaring people away, but something I think gets addressed less is that most of the people here are very, very rusty at being outsiders to the genre. A balancing act between those two perspectives, both informed and thoughtful with regards to creating games together, could produce wonders. I guess that mostly comes down to developing the shmup community rather than moving forward with any one game development project.
Just make sure you play the game on a computer with a dedicated GPU. The game is horribly unoptimized for PC and is using the extra GPU overhead of the Playstation and Xbox platforms to brute force their performance through; The Knight Witch would be one of the examples Digital Foundry would list as a poor example in their recent manifesto for PC versions since it doesn't even have the option to change graphical settings so it doesn't chug on less powerful systems other than adjusting the resolution, which is one aspect I can legitimately knock the game on. That, and the 12GB file size for the full install. Yikes.