The future of Cave

[Estebang]

Not terribly relevant, but Cave isn't an "indie" developer.

Hell, the word has lost all meaning when you consider that the downloadable "indie" darlings Braid and Flower have over a hundred people in their credits.

[bcass]

Most of the people in those credits are just Microsoft/Sony back office staff that have to be credited even though they played no part in creating the game.

[Estebang]

That still hardly qualifies the games as "independent."

[Udderdude]

CAVE needs to think outside the bullet cancelling box for their next game. It's getting old and they've pretty much run out of good ideas involving the concept. Somehow I don't see it happening, though.

[DMC]

CAVE needs to think outside the bullet cancelling box for their next game.

enemy cancelling?

[moozooh]

CAVE needs to think outside the bullet cancelling box for their next game.

enemy cancelling?

Made my day!

[Drachenherz]

CAVE needs to think outside the bullet cancelling box for their next game.

enemy cancelling?

Player canceling...

[kernow]

Game cancelling.

[RNGmaster]

Restart cancelling.

[Udderdude]

Cancel canelling: Your cancels no longer work. Enjoy your undodgeable shitwall of bullets. :3

Alternatley, all the bullets you cancelled suddenly come back to life as zombie bullets and want to eat your brains.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Shoot the bullets and the ship cancels

[Iori Branford]

enemy cancelling?

Thunder Force 5 and 6

Player canceling...

Battle Garegga

Game cancelling.

Game Dev Story

Cancel canelling: Your cancels no longer work. Enjoy your undodgeable shitwall of bullets. :3

Alternatley, all the bullets you cancelled suddenly come back to life as zombie bullets and want to eat your brains.

ESPGaluda 2

[TrevHead (TVR)]

PC Cancelling: LoseLose

[Chaos Phoenixma]

enemy cancelling?

Thunder Force 5 and 6

Player canceling...

Battle Garegga

Game cancelling.

Game Dev Story

Cancel canelling: Your cancels no longer work. Enjoy your undodgeable shitwall of bullets. :3

Alternatley, all the bullets you cancelled suddenly come back to life as zombie bullets and want to eat your brains.

ESPGaluda 2

ESPGaluda II definitely for the second one. But the first one was making me think DFK with the increased hyper ranks making bullets a lot more durable.

[Udderdude]

ESPGaluda II definitely for the second one.

I definitely had that thought, but what I had in mind was more like the bullets reappearing something like 20 seconds after you've cancelled them, instead of immediately :P

[Bananamatic]

Hitbox cancelling - Psyvariar

[O. Van Bruce]

Melee cancelling? a shmup in which you have to use constantly a sword attack to survive and make score?

[StarCreator]

Melee cancelling? a shmup in which you have to use constantly a sword attack to survive and make score?

Gunbird 2?

[Vamos]

Melee cancelling? a shmup in which you have to use constantly a sword attack to survive and make score?

Thats vasara 2 .

[moozooh]

a shmup in which you have to use constantly a sword attack to survive and make score?

So... what exactly is being canceled there?

[O. Van Bruce]

A shmup in wich your main weapon has to be constantly replenished by an alternate melee weapon (a weapon like the sword used on Stella Vanity or the energy sword used by Fossil Maiden in Hellsinker)... while your sword is active bullets move slower but they are more dense...

When your power bar is full, you can enter an altered stated in which your melee weapon can cancell the bullets of only those enemies that you killed with your sword.... and from that mechanic you can make an score system...

The bomb could be included on the game mechanics as it could give you invulnerability for 1,5 seconds...

here you have my first shit/WTF game mechanics system i've stated on this forum

PD: You can add a life bar on the melee state a la Akai Katana...

[Bananamatic]

Melee cancelling? a shmup in which you have to use constantly a sword attack to survive and make score?

Homura

[RNGmaster]

joystick cancelling

psyvariar and xii stag do a pretty good job of that though

I recall a conversation at a shmupmeet a while back about how XII Stag machines went through joysticks about every 3 days since the waggling is hell on the microswitches.

[MJR]

thread cancelling!!!!!!

[Ghegs]

thread cancelling!!!!!!

No, that'd be this one:



Don't make me do it, people!

[Udderdude]

We don't negotiate with thread cancel terrorists >_>

[TrevHead (TVR)]

We don't negotiate with thread cancel terrorists >_>

Send in the Ketsui Defence Force!

[DMC]

We don't negotiate with thread cancel terrorists >_>

Send in the Ketsui Defence Force!

[emphatic]

Awesome!

[Eaglet]

That one's going up on the Ketsui cab in Motaro!