Fire Lancer - Hot-Blooded Wonder Shooting - DEMO: DEC.25

BPzeBanshee · Post by **BPzeBanshee** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 12:24 pm

Few vibes of Raiden Fighters there with the bullets too. Great stuff!

ptoing · Post by **ptoing** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:41 pm

Some sprites

mice · Post by **mice** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 2:54 pm

ptoing wrote:Some sprites

Hell yes! Doing some bkgs as well?

Ah, now I get why trap wants to free that bkg layer from the HUD as well.

This is going to be sooo good!

ptoing · Post by **ptoing** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 2:56 pm

Yeah, I got some ideas for a bg already. And also gonna do a proper titlescreen and other menu stuff too.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 2:59 pm

Nice shading, ptoing!

railslave · Post by **railslave** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 2:59 pm

ptoing wrote:Some sprites

The ptoing cometh!

RHE · Post by **RHE** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 8:24 pm

Nice enemy design, but the player ship looks a bit unremarkable imho.

How about a Recca style ship design?

ptoing · Post by **ptoing** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 8:27 pm

Thanks. And yeah, not super happy with the playership yet. The Recca one is wider, so that would be more sprites. Would have to see if that is worth it. Maybe.

MintyTheCat · Post by **MintyTheCat** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:56 pm

ptoing wrote:Thanks. And yeah, not super happy with the playership yet. The Recca one is wider, so that would be more sprites. Would have to see if that is worth it. Maybe.

It is good to see ptoing getting into some Shmup work - keep up the good work.

ptoing · Post by **ptoing** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:50 pm

Thanks Chris, it's good fun

Dropship MK3.

MintyTheCat · Post by **MintyTheCat** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:40 pm

ptoing wrote:Thanks Chris, it's good fun

Dropship MK3.

Reminds me of some of the Sprites from Soldier-Blade. Tbh I always liked that style.

RHE · Post by **RHE** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 10:58 pm

A Solider Blade player ship sprite would be nice as well....

trap15 · Post by **trap15** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:04 pm

http://youtu.be/uokzFocxXZo Preview 18, with whole bunches of new cool awesome stuff.

mice · Post by **mice** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:03 pm

trap15 wrote:Preview 18, with whole bunches of new cool awesome stuff.

Awesomeness!

But I really have to say that I think the clean (non detailed) sprites is what makes this so attractive.
So seeing the drop-ship getting all of that detail is making me a bit sad, actually. Don't get me wrong, it's really beautiful and superbly made.

ptoing · Post by **ptoing** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:07 pm

Thanks, but also a "heh". The little sprites are actually pretty detailed, given the amount of colours and space I had to work with.

I just felt that the old dropship looked too empty for its size. Bosses will also be that level of detail, since they are bigger as well.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:52 pm

How much time do you spend per day on this, trap15? It's looking very pro already.

trap15 · Post by **trap15** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:05 pm

On average probably 2-3 hours. Yesterday was a 13 hour rockin' jam with ptoing, but I don't see that happening often

ptoing · Post by **ptoing** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:07 pm

Yeah, was super fun, that. Now I have to readjust my sleeping pattern again

LordHypnos · Post by **LordHypnos** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 8:07 pm

So, I think that the suicide bomb looks pretty cool, but I'm curious if you're going to add something mechanically to make it worth using the suicide bomb rather than dying to the hit? I mean apart from just "you could conceivably kill a few extra enemies."

ptoing · Post by **ptoing** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 8:27 pm

If you kill stuff quicker you get more waves of enemies, so in some cases min-maxing the suicide bomb can give you quite a bit more score. I reckon Trap will make this a bit more pronounced when the level design gets polished.

beet · Post by **beet** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:41 pm

That's gorgeous. Nicely done.

Ebbo · Post by **Ebbo** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:06 pm

No health bar in euro-mode. I give it a solid 3/5.

Honestly though the way this looks and progresses so fast makes me cover in shame and envy.

trap15 · Post by **trap15** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 3:14 am

Thank you all for the kind words. I've updated the title post with more detail and some screenshots.

I'm playing around with adding more scoring than just "kill everything". I will probably demonstrate it in another video soon. Won't have much time to work on this for a few weeks though.

CStarFlare · Post by **CStarFlare** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:32 pm

I just want to drop in and echo that I'm really excited about this project. It looks great so far and the fact that it's a wonderswan thing is attractive for reasons I can't really put my finger on.

tiaoferreira · Post by **tiaoferreira** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 5:16 pm

By one moment, I thought those ships would combine themself, forming a big robot, like a "megazord samurai"

cave hermit · Post by **cave hermit** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:44 pm

Holy shit the game has color now

That Dreck Label mode is a nice touch by the way

Nana · Post by **Nana** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 11:58 am

This game looks so good holy shit

Seriously, cannot wait to play this. Please keep posting updates. Are you gonna take a crack at making music yourself?

trap15 · Post by **trap15** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:42 pm

No, I'm absolutely incapable of composition heh. I've asked someone to try making something but haven't really heard much progress so I might ask some other people. It'll be a while for a new preview because I'm busy for a few weeks, but it should be a nice new preview then.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:55 pm

trap15 wrote:No, I'm absolutely incapable of composition heh. I've asked someone to try making something but haven't really heard much progress so I might ask some other people. It'll be a while for a new preview because I'm busy for a few weeks, but it should be a nice new preview then.

How is music handled on this platform? Is it some sort of midi that's translated, or low bit PCM?

trap15 · Post by **trap15** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:59 pm

The sound driver I'm using at the moment uses MML to notate the music, but there are many ways it could be done. Low-fi PCM is possible, but sounds like garbage and I'd rather not.

The sound hardware is somewhat similar to Namco N163 with 4 channels at 32-sample instruments.

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