! This work that I have just created this week is entitled Shmup Pixel Craft Generator, which is definitely the one that can actually generate up to millions upon millions of custom-made ships as well as let you save custom sprite sheets of them, just to really help you get started in your 2d shmup developing indeed. Take a look:
...plus it even lets you preview the transparency color before saving to a .BMP file:
With this interesting utility that was created using a programming tool called FreeBASIC (http://www.freebasic.net), users can scale their pixel craft squadrons up and down, creating forth bullets, missiles, options, and perhaps even more — as well as generate their own dream team of ships, too!! I am keeping the maximum size of each sprite to almost 20x20 pixels because I just wanted to preserve the main look of the shmup in as pure a way as ever... that is all.
Inspired by Dave Bollinger’s outstanding tutorial on how Pixel Spaceships were first made (found right here, please!), I created and programmed on the computer my own original custom algorithm in making the magic happen in my program. Just so you know.
=b !You can download the current version of my Shmup Pixel Craft Generator right here:
...and get going!!
Thank you all so very much for your time here, and be seeing you with your input on this program indeed!!!
