Copper Storm - New SNES, Megadrive & Neo Geo Shmup Kickstarter

[Neofid Studios]

Hi all,
Neofid Studios here (creators of Demons of Asteborg / Astebros), we’re thrilled to announce our first Shmup on Kickstarter : Copperstorm !

The best pilot of London Jim Cooper must defends his Victorian‑era world against the BlitzMark; expect explosions, gear upgrades, parry mechanic, vertical flying like Thunderforce IV and lots of Metal Slug vibes !



- Kickstarter fully funded (€50 K goal) in under 2h & currently approaching our 5th goal !
- Exclusive physical release on cartridge; box + manual + 10‑year warranty as always.

Back here : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ne ... opperstorm

Pledges start at €70 (SNES/Mega), €320–370 (Neo‑Geo). No digital version. Full FAQ & details on Kickstarter.

We’ll be here to answer all your questions and appreciate any support or feedback. Thanks for your suport

[it290]

Looks great! For the SNES game, will you be redrawing the art or will it be scaled down for the lower resolution?

[Ms. Tea]

Just a heads up, I think there might be a copy-paste error with that link - it's a 404.

[Neofid Studios]

Just a heads up, I think there might be a copy-paste error with that link - it's a 404.

Hey!
Thank you for the heads-up It has been corrected now!

[Neofid Studios]

Looks great! For the SNES game, will you be redrawing the art or will it be scaled down for the lower resolution?

We will mainly scale down the art or adjust the balancing to ensure the challenge is consistent with other consoles.

The main differences on the SNES will be recoloring, transparency adjustments, and balance tweaks.

As we progress in the development of the game, we may need to modify or redraw some art, but this will always be done in favor of gameplay.

[Sumez]

The main differences on the SNES will be recoloring, transparency adjustments, and balance tweaks.

Creating a game across both SNES and MegaDrive sounds like an ordeal. I love programming for the SNES, but I wouldn't want to try making the same things work across other platforms.
I guess going the other way around enforces some natural limitations that makes it easier to wield as long as you don't need the excess sprite graphics data.

Are you compiling the SNES port using C (and I guess libsfc?), or are you programming it from scratch?

[Bassa-Bassa]

It'd be a real shame pixel art like this gets downscaled(!), even if it's for original aspect ratio reasons. Retooling/rebalacing for a totally different, alternate version sounds way better, doesn't it (unless you're really willing to redraw every sprite, that is)?

[Neofid Studios]

The main differences on the SNES will be recoloring, transparency adjustments, and balance tweaks.

Creating a game across both SNES and MegaDrive sounds like an ordeal. I love programming for the SNES, but I wouldn't want to try making the same things work across other platforms.
I guess going the other way around enforces some natural limitations that makes it easier to wield as long as you don't need the excess sprite graphics data.

Are you compiling the SNES port using C (and I guess libsfc?), or are you programming it from scratch?

We are using both C and assembly language to design our engine for the SNES version!

[Neofid Studios]

It'd be a real shame pixel art like this gets downscaled(!), even if it's for original aspect ratio reasons. Retooling/rebalacing for a totally different, alternate version sounds way better, doesn't it (unless you're really willing to redraw every sprite, that is)?

The sprite resizing will not be a simple downscale but a manual resize to preserve the quality of the sprites and animations.

[Bassa-Bassa]

manual resize

If that involves something else than just removing vertical (and horizontal) lines of pixels, that's still redrawing sprites to me, especially if you intend to take advantage of the SNES' colors. So well, good luck!