Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender on Steam

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Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender on Steam

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Hi, a Defender style shooter (cute-em-up?) we originally released on Vita then 360 has finally been released on Steam last month.
It's made in the visual style of an Amiga or PC Engine era game, but drawn at 720p with some additive style effects you wouldn't see back then.
Audio is also a homage to that era, a with nods to Huelsbeck and Hubbard.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/263880/
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Here is a quick summary of the game:

You play as a cat piloting a submarine, defending milk mining kittens deep under the sea.
The core game is like Defender but with quite a few changes and optional 2 player co-op.
Your core weapons are the basic gun and a turbo fire which recharges - the key to the game is managing your turbo fire.
Branching map progression allows some choice in the levels you play.
Depth based powerup system where the depth of the powerup dropping enemie determines what is dropped.

Also there is an additional `Arcade` mode, which plays like a mix of Defender and Gradius - where you need to collect Gems to upgrade you submarine, and these carry through to successive levels.

Also there is an infinite mode, where you just survive as long as possible and don't need to worry about saving miners.

If you want to learn more please check out the Steam page + reviews, or the game website:

http://tikipod.com/aquakitty/

things we could have done/do better:
It could ideally do with more bosses (we have only one end boss), but on balance thats more than Defender ever did :)
We did not make Arcade mode clear enough in the menus, so a few people seemed to miss it.
Currently we have no joypad remap capability (is in the works though).
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Re: Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender on Steam

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Looks good!

I recommend making a post in Shmups Chat for promotion however: Development is only a small part of the forum, and since this game is complete rather than a WIP you'll be sure to get more feedback/customers over there. :)
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Re: Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender on Steam

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The PSVita thread is here.

I never knew there was a XB360 release, I assume its on XBLIG?
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Re: Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender on Steam

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Thanks BPzeBanshee, am new to the forums so wasnt sure where best to post.

Dave_K thank you for that link too - yes the game is on XBLIG on 360.

We started dev on PC using XNA.
Then ported and released on Vita (PSM).
Then improved the game with coop and some more levels and enemies and an easy mode on XBLIG.
Then added leaderboards, Gradius mode and new weapons to the Steam version.
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