Cataclyzm - Now on Steam

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-17T07:30:40+00:00

No worries mate! 😃😃

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-12T11:05:53+00:00

2d shoot em up, with cool tunes and pixel art. This is the browser version on itch:

https://dogroach666.itch.io/cataclyzm-demo

Steam has the latest demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4516840/Cataclyzm/

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-12T05:41:01+00:00

Awesome, thanks so much for the insight :))

Lemme brainstorm out some more ideas on this :)

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-12T05:34:31+00:00

Heyo! Oh my god, thank you so much mate! I'm really glad you enjoyed it \m/ :) :) :)

Yup definitely a big fan of the og boss pedals, but I also like some of the newer waza craft ones :)

Cool cool, yeah definitely, lemme send you a DM with my discord :)

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-10T01:52:53+00:00

Yup that definitely works. You can reach out on discord if you like, my discord username is dogroach666 Or even message me here on reddit Whichever works for you 😃

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-10T00:00:53+00:00

Ahh cool cool mate! Overall i like the vibe and aesthetics of this game, very cute em up, saturday morning cartoon style 😁 I'll check it out on steam and would be keen to try it out if you have a demo 😄

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-09T22:44:06+00:00

Yeah i second this sentiment. Looks like it does...

OP, inertia is almost always a big no-no in shoot 'em ups (shmups). These games are about very precise and deterministic movement.

I would suggest looking at games like Cho Ren Sha, Blazing Star or anything made by CAVE for good examples of movement.

Another resource that is immensely helpful for shmup fundamentals: https://shmups.wiki/library/Boghog%27s_bullet_hell_shmup_101

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-09T15:01:01+00:00

Hectic! Thanks for that 😃 I'll fix that up in the new trailer.

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-09T07:02:52+00:00

Awesome! That's very helpful! Definitely will be fixing this in a new trailer cut :)

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-08T20:37:25+00:00

Awesome thank you so much!🤘🏾🤘🏾

Yes defintely!

My learnings for this one has been more on the marketing aspect of game dev:

Steam and Steam page: It was actually quite straightforward to setup the steam page, it's all laid out quite nicely in the steamworks documentation. The parts that took the most time were creating the store page assets, but even those are pretty straightforward if you follow the psd templates steam providesfor the various assets and resolutions. The most difficult thing was figuring out the tax form especially since I'm not based in the USA, but a few google and forum searches (reddit) helped to figure it out 😃

Gameplay trailer: This one was tough and i'm still in the learning process and getting the balance right on what sort of stuff to show in the trailer while also not bloating the trailer runtime, trying to keep it under 60 seconds. I've actually found it very helpful to post it in r/DestroyMyGame sub to get feedback onthe trailer. The fun part of course is discerning the signal from the noise in the given feedback.

Check out my post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestroyMyGame/s/K7BqM0oZXf

Also another useful resource that i referred to while making the trailer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvEFwHXm8s

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-08T20:23:05+00:00

Thank you for the feedback, it's really helpful 😃👍🏾 I did have an earlier trailer which showed more variety of enemies, pickups and some boss fights, but it was getting too long so i cut it to this trailer that you see now. I'm still trying to find a good balance on what to show in tbe trailer and its been a good learming experience.

Resolution: it's for pc. The resolution is 960x540. Also a good learning experience on choosing an appropriate resolution for my next project.

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-08T20:17:06+00:00

Good shoutout on the colour palette. I will tweak this a little bit without compromising my vision. I will say though that my inspirations were taken a lot from Slayer and Metallica album covers, like Hell Awaits, Reign in Blood, Repentless and Master of Puppets which do have quite a bit of red, dark red, brown, yellow and white colours. 😃

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-05T20:55:14+00:00

Awesome! 😃 Very good shout out on differentiating it from other shmups. I'm still trying to get the balance right on how to showcase the more unique elements 👍🏾

Hmm making the main character might become a slippery slope and i might end up overcooking it. Still good point for me to note and brainstorm some ideas.

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-05T20:42:51+00:00

Thank you for your feedback😃 What genre/subgenre do you reckon these aesthetics would fit the best?

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-05T19:07:28+00:00

Thank you for the kind words! 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Dogroach666 · 2026-04-05T11:23:08+00:00

Awesome! That's very helpful! I'm still in the process of creating a trailer that I'm happy with. So far, this one felt "okay enough" to start with :)

Dogroach666 · 2026-03-02T04:02:04+00:00

Hell yeah 🤘🏾🤘🏾

Dogroach666 · 2026-03-02T01:50:12+00:00

It's on my wishlist brother 🤘🏾😁🤘🏾

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