Shmup-Dev competition has now finished

Motorherp · Post by **Motorherp** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:05 pm

How do people. The latest shmup-dev competition has now finished and judgeing has begun. We've had an amazing turnout this time around with 21 finished games. Please go and check it out and play the shmups. Link in my sig

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:09 pm

i hates doujins

Motorherp · Post by **Motorherp** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:14 pm

And whats the difference between a doujin game and a commercial game except for the involvement of a publisher?

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:19 pm

Motorherp wrote:And whats the difference between a doujin game and a commercial game except for the involvement of a publisher?

Are you that hungry...

No need to bite here.

Motorherp · Post by **Motorherp** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:27 pm

Fair enough, I should have thought before dignifying that with a reply. A lot of poeple have invested a lot of time and effort into this project and we're proud of it. Just ashame to see people so quickly use it as a target to grow their e-peen

JJG · Post by **JJG** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:47 pm

Some of the entries look pretty cool, checking them out now.

RotateMe · Post by **RotateMe** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:06 pm

Wow, Varia is a insta-winner. A bit easy maybe, but it has a completely unique style. Maybe not in terms of graphics, but the feeling of the patterns and the unique stuff the bosses have and do is just genious.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:21 pm

Mac OS X

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:22 am

I tried downloading Varia and got errors. Although I'm not sure if I downloaded the patch or the full game. Also, why can't you just link to the downloads instead of going through 3 or 4 links?

battlegorge · Post by **battlegorge** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:28 am

The judges dont have an easy job

My favorites are currently kamiha,garden of colored lights, akuchizoku and prototype2.
But i havent played all yet.

Motorherp · Post by **Motorherp** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:42 am

neorichieb1971 wrote:I tried downloading Varia and got errors. Although I'm not sure if I downloaded the patch or the full game. Also, why can't you just link to the downloads instead of going through 3 or 4 links?

We're still in the process of judgeing. Once this has been done we'll be putting up a page with all the reviews and links to download collected together.

Shion · Post by **Shion** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:06 am

Some really cool games on there! Any chance there will be another contest in the future? I may be interested in participating

lewisit · Post by **lewisit** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:23 am

FrederikJurk wrote:Mac OS X

me too

battlegorge · Post by **battlegorge** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:28 am

I am sure some developers can compile for Mac, too.
Just ask them!

Motorherp · Post by **Motorherp** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:44 am

Shion wrote:Some really cool games on there! Any chance there will be another contest in the future? I may be interested in participating

I'm sure there will be at some point. Not too soon though since everyone needs a break and we dont want to flood our sponsors. Stay tuned, there's stuff going on all the time even if its not one of the big competitions.

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:48 am

Sorry, shmup-dev doesn't work here since like a year... probably something with ISP there that blocks me from there

Shocky · Post by **Shocky** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:48 pm

Good stuff!

Howabout creating a page with screenshots of each game, so the busy ones like me don't have to click through each and every thread there or blindly install games? Thanks!

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:23 pm

battlegorge wrote:I am sure some developers can compile for Mac, too.
Just ask them!

Some of the entries are made in game development kits that are platform spacific. Others make extensive use of Windows libraries. I suppose many of the games made in Blitzmax could be easly converted but most other languages may take some time. Things made in Game Maker are windows only.

The competitions have pretty much been the bread and butter of Shmup-Dev. You can expect more games in the future. Also many people make games outside the competitions so there is a somewhat constant stream of games being worked on.