Aeon Zenith - HIGH SPEED DARK FANTASY SHOOTING
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Squire Grooktook
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Aeon Zenith - HIGH SPEED DARK FANTASY SHOOTING
Hello all! It’s been awhile since I’ve posted around here, partly because I’ve been very busy making my own shmup. I thought I’d finally post an “official” topic here to spread it around!
Aeon Zenith is a manic shooter with a goal of emphasizing fast, sweeping movement for dodging (instead of teensy tiny micro dodges) in order to generate a more exciting and oldschool feel while keeping the complexity and craziness of modern danmaku shooters. It also features a melee mechanic and a hyper system, as well as a scoring system based around speed killing enemies to unlock extra enemy waves, encouraging speed, risk/reward, and all out aggression!
Stage 1 Video Preview
Stage 2 Video Preview
Gameplay influences include Cho Ren Sha 68k, Dangun Feveron, Dragon Blaze, Strikers 1999, Eschatos, Mecha Ritz, Touhou 3, and the Gundemonium series.
We’re also striving to create a unique dark-fantasy aesthetic filled with surreal environments and elegant yet disturbing monster designs, all driven onward by a Hyakutaro and Siter Skain influenced synthy prog-rock soundtrack.
Aesthetic influences include Dragon Spirit, Dragon Saber, Metal Black, Darius, and R-Type series.
If you’re interested, you can play the current demo here
The demo is a bit rough with a lot of placeholders and numerous level design tweaks inbound, so very subject to change. Stage 1 in particular is very unfinished from the miniboss onward (have more background stuff and more polished enemy waves planned).
You can also find my development log on Twitter here
Aeon Zenith - My STG.RegalSin wrote:Japan an almost perfect society always threatened by outsiders....................
Instead I am stuck in the America's where women rule with an iron crotch, and a man could get arrested for sitting behind a computer too long.
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Been following the development on Twitter for a while; I assume you've seen my podcast account aggressively "liking" your dev tweets
This looks good. I like the addition of the melee aspect, and I think it will give the basic Dragon Spirit aesthetic a new feel. I'll have to grab that demo and find some time to tool around with it.
This looks good. I like the addition of the melee aspect, and I think it will give the basic Dragon Spirit aesthetic a new feel. I'll have to grab that demo and find some time to tool around with it.
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Looks promising!
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Looks fantastic, I'm loving the progress of this game. Testing the new demo right now!
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Squire Grooktook
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Thank you all so much! It's really encouraging to see people interested or hyped!
Probably one of the programming challenges I'm most proud of overcoming.
Thanks, I spent a LOT of time on it. Retooled the basic idea of the mechanic and how it works numerous times, and spent quite a while getting the lightning followup looking just right!FRO wrote:I like the addition of the melee aspect, and I think it will give the basic Dragon Spirit aesthetic a new feel.
Probably one of the programming challenges I'm most proud of overcoming.
Aeon Zenith - My STG.RegalSin wrote:Japan an almost perfect society always threatened by outsiders....................
Instead I am stuck in the America's where women rule with an iron crotch, and a man could get arrested for sitting behind a computer too long.
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Squire Grooktook
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Pixel art for the first boss coming along.
He'll have animated tail in the style of classic Konami/Treasure multi-segmented puppetry. I'm still ironing out the kinks in it though while working with roughs of the sprites.
He'll have animated tail in the style of classic Konami/Treasure multi-segmented puppetry. I'm still ironing out the kinks in it though while working with roughs of the sprites.
Aeon Zenith - My STG.RegalSin wrote:Japan an almost perfect society always threatened by outsiders....................
Instead I am stuck in the America's where women rule with an iron crotch, and a man could get arrested for sitting behind a computer too long.
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This is some impressive sprite work
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This looks promising. Will be keeping an eye out for the eventual release.