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[pixelcorps]

http://studiowork3.tumblr.com/

Dev blog for project "G" A forthcoming, zero pretense,balls out danmaku game for PC and ????????????

[Cagar]

I like this already.
It's okay to be uber-casual in shmup deving these days, ("the genre has died because of hardcore players!!") but someone has to still fill the hardcore demand.
Just make a good fucking danmaku, we haven't seen that in a long while.

[trap15]

Tanks

[WIZNWAR]

great! thanks for sharing

[pixelcorps]

still going at the 1st enemy set. its taking me 3 days per ship at present..



http://studiowork3.tumblr.com/

[Udderdude]

Nice enemy designs. Pew pew.

[emphatic]

Wow, those are beautiful.

[Biggu Bossu]

I love watching games getting built and I'm glad to see the extra care given to graphics. I'm not a fan of 3d rendered graphics usually but these ships look damn pleasing to the eye. Good luck on the rest

Nice enemy designs. Pew pew.

Literally best comment ever

[Stompp]

still going at the 1st enemy set. its taking me 3 days per ship at present..



http://studiowork3.tumblr.com/

This is just...beautiful

[pixelcorps]

Cheers for the feedback!

[n0rtygames]

I love the graphics, I really do. I'm not sure about this comment on your blog?

4. STG dev is pretty much a wasteland and free of pretentious assholes and indie cliques.

1. It's not a wasteland at all!
2. We are *incredibly* pretentious
3. No cliques?!
4. We are *definitely* assholes!!
5. you miiiiight wanna tone that sort of thing down a bit.. just saying

That said, what hardware is your framerate test running on? Do you have any up to date vids of actual gameplay etc? Details are a little sparse at the moment - but the two ships look very very promising.

Also yes, tanks. Everything needs more tanks.

[Cagar]

Those look gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.
And so do the sketch designs in the blog.
When will you provide with some actual gameplay footage?

[pixelcorps]

there will be gameplay footage when all the 1st stage enemies graphics , enemiy triggers and a background is finished and explosions are done..

it will be a while


as for my setup? it runs fine on my old toshiba 2.8ghz laptop

[S_Fang]

there will be gameplay footage when all the 1st stage enemies graphics , enemiy triggers and a background is finished and explosions are done..

it will be a while

I'm sure the wait will be worthy.

Anyway, I read the question on the blog about langauges and, in case you required an help for italian language, ask me without problems whatsoever.
For the record yes, I was the anonymous user behind the question (DUN DU-yadda yadda).

[pixelcorps]

thanks for the offer dude, it will be a long way off before I can start writing any stuff...

[pixelcorps]

Blog updated with some WIP background shots and a demo version of stage 1 music!

http://studiowork3.tumblr.com/

[emphatic]

Superb artwork, very Ketsuiesque.

[Xyga]

Hoodie with cat pocket: NEED

And yup looks and sounds good. ^^

[rtw]

Looks fantastic, sounds brilliant

[pixelcorps]

thanks! Back to backgrounds now.. It's a ridiculously ambitious project, but I hope I can deliver...

[Stevens]

Calling it now - this is going to be something special.

[Cagar]

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[pixelcorps]

wow - pressure is ON now!

My biggest enemy is TIME... doing everything in 720p is gonna be a huge timesink, backgrounds mostly...

My second biggest enemy is finding a character designer who can work from my rough image renders.. So far only one artist responded, and he is one of my personal heroes (pro mangaka, toy designer, mechanical designer and light novel illustrator), but his fees were astronomical.
Mechamusume style is a real problem because you need someone who can do both characters and complimentary mechanical armor in equal balance..

As I am trying to keep standards high as possible this is gonna be a problem or very expensive! - there is one other guy who is not so highly sought after but well reknowned in doujin circles whose art I am a huge fan of, but I will have to come up with some rough concepts for the other 2 characters before I can even consider giving them a proposal / brief..

I am working on the logo at present as my weekend is too fractured with social events to totally get my head back into the backgrounds - maybe I will finally announce the real title soon!

[n0rtygames]

Yeah, welcome to hell.

Getting somebody to produce assets at an affordable rate to an individual is - to put it simply - fucking hard. Your choices are:

- Either accept it'll take forever and cost you a lot, don't bank on profit
- Find someone more affordable
- Do it yourself

[pixelcorps]

Still going at it, background 1 is about 90% done, here's a quick player collision and powerup sandbox test.

https://vine.co/v/iB1dv55DWVh

[emphatic]

Is it just me, or is the movement a bit wonky?

[Cagar]

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[pixelcorps]

It's probably the shitty vine framerate, I actually spent a lot of time replicating all the movement speeds from yusuke from esprade to start with, including the diagonal speed compensation that is in all cave games, which I was surprised to discover.

If you put the 2 games side by side, the screen traversal time is 100% exact.

As this is my first attempt at an STG , my methodology is that I should pay attention to what is working and accepted in existing commercial games so I can learn what they are doing and why, as opposed to thinking I knew better than them..I have a lot to learn.

Ship movement is now just a set of 3 variables that can be changed on a whim.

That code was actually done before I started on the backgrounds, ground enemy spline pathing, turret tracking and the typical zako movement is ready to be plugged in.

[Squire Grooktook]

Robo girls <3

And yeah, I don't see anything wrong with the movement at all.

Wow though, quality music, art, and programming? You're seriously talented.

[emphatic]

You're going about this the right way. Nailing this stuff is more important than gfx and music, and it's already clear you have no problems in those areas either.

I'm sure it's fine.