I'm making a game, could you cast an eye over it?

gan9e · Post by **gan9e** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 11:54 am

Hi,

My name is Tony and I'm from the UK and this is my first post here, some one recommended this forum to me when I previewed my game to them and I thought wow how could I of missed this place, well I've got to be in the right place now.
Anyway I hope it wouldn't be too presumptuous of me to post a video link to some preview footage of this game I'm making, but I would really love some feedback, suggestions ideas, as this is my very first game in a long time I'm just trying to make something I hope would be fun, I actually used to be work in the amusement industry, not much of story to tell... but you would be able to see that influence in the game-play in the video below.

Before you click the link to the video I'll explain about the game and what I have in store for it.
It's a mixture, a mash up of some arcade games I've loved from my salad days... I'm in my 40s now and so there is something a little raw & uncompromising about my shump style, perhaps retro is the right word... I wanted to create a quick and dirty fun yet blasterific shooter with no menus or fiddly stuff, just play and go for a score, now the games I've kind of imbued into this shump of mine are Starforce and StarBlade to name a few, on an imaginary experimental Namco board from 1993...if there was such a thing, I wanted to create something which wouldn't be amiss in an imaginary dedicated cabinet, anyway it's all early days yet, I've got lots of ideas and this game is your average arcade blaster, a 2D arcade shmup world fighting off the impending world of newer 3D arcade systems, you blast stuff, get bonuses, you destroy giant space cruisers with great effect (eventually when I've made that) and there you go...

So here's the clip, thanks for giving it some time and please all ideas & suggestions are most welcome, cheers

-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XHBORNLTAE

SapphireDensetsu · Post by **SapphireDensetsu** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 1:08 pm

You might want to request for this to be moved to the development subforum.

--Sapphire

ptoing · Post by **ptoing** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 1:20 pm

From watching that video all I can think of is how annoying that rotation looks. Looks like it would be more confusing than anything.

gan9e · Post by **gan9e** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 6:42 pm

ptoing wrote:From watching that video all I can think of is how annoying that rotation looks. Looks like it would be more confusing than anything.

It's an option, I started the game with the POV locked off in the traditional top-down sense then for an extra challenge you can use the 360 rotating POV to get a view of the ships and stuff like that.
So yeah thanks for that, I wouldn't mind this thread going to the development forums as suggested if thats the best thing, cheers

gan9e · Post by **gan9e** » Wed Dec 21, 2016 9:27 pm

Well its taken two more years to get here, bits and bobs in my spare time... anyway my game is ready for you.

It's a kind of homage to one of my favourite games Star Force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XHBORNLTAE

what do you reckon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwIhfUKlMR4

Have look at my profile for my website addy... if you want to review it, PM me for a free copy, thanks

shmups.system11.org

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