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Rival Megagun is a split-screen pvp shmup fighter where you can transform into a boss to invade your opponent's screen. Each player destroys enemies 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 "Mega Gunship" boss formation that can fly over to the opponent's screen for frantic head to head battles.

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Small art dump of some of the playable bosses.

Why haven't someone commented on this, looks bad ass.
That super attack seems like a cool feature.

Thanks man, I really appreciate the comment.

I would love some critical feedback but I understand that it's hard to give feedback without a playable demo. I'm assuming that's why no one else has commented...

Yup, you're assuming right.

It certainly looks good! But that's all we can say without playing it, sorry.

Looks pretty neat! It's like a chaining Twinkle Star Sprites. Keep us posted

Thanks guys! Yep the game is totally inspired by Twinkle Star Sprites.

The chain meter is an eclipse, brilliant. That animation is super-slick.

I was going to comment about this.
The best chain meter design I've ever seen. Very visible and cool looking!
I used to work on a PvP shmup too, and I will probably even finish it sometime. (Well, it's almost finished mechanically).
The problem was/is that it's hard to guarantee that the game even works as planned when you don't have a highly skilled opponent to play against. That pretty much stopped my development.

Judging from that last gif, I'd say bosses are too easy to kill :p

That's not a real boss, right? I think it's the other players super attack?

Again, looks awesome!

Exactly! If it's an attack where the player becomes the boss, it should last more than a few seconds, eh? Otherwise it's just one-two attacks with a boss "glued on". The player has level 1 and 2 for that.

Also, this reminds of of Change air blade.

The bosses haven't been balanced yet but they will definitely have more HP. They have low HP right now because it speeds up testing. Thanks for the feedback!

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This is great. The concept feels like Puzzle Bobble meets Change Air Blade. Please keep it up!

This looks amazing! If you balance the chaining and breaking right it seems like it could be super fun in multiplayer.

Hey guys, Rival Star Hero will be playable at the Seattle Indies Expo, same weekend as PAX. If you're in Seattle for PAX come check it out! It's just a 5 minute walk from PAX. The event details are here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seattle-in ... 6891628585

BUMP to remind you to come play Rival Star Hero this Sunday (Sept 4) if you're in Seattle. The event details are here:
http://seattleindies.org/six/

I have been super busy lately, but I've been working on this as much as possible. Lots of people asked about online multiplayer at SIX so I made it a priority and built it over the past few months. As of now you can only challenge your friends. I haven't dug into matchmaking yet but it's something I will look into post-launch.

Here's another GIF update. Testing out a new background:

More artwork! Finally got some portraits in there, and more vibrant enemies and background.

Oh my grash, it's beautiful.

Great looking art you've got there! I'm curious how the edges of the playable area work - since there's indentations and such in the borders (i.e. the visible play area isn't perfectly rectangular), can you actually move in those areas or is there an invisible barrier preventing you from moving into those recesses?

There is an invisible barrier just like you said. Your ship is constrained to a rectangular play area.

I removed the Chain-break system and replaced it with an attack power meter that fills up as you build your chain. This gives the player a better choice of when and how to attack. Enemies are now spawned on your opponent automatically as your chain grows.

I updated the original post with some new gifs. Dumping some screenshots here:

Here's 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:

The art looks nice, especially the character portraits.

More artwork! Here's a preview of some enemies and environments: