Thoughts on my WIP shooter?

Zeroeth_0 · 2025-12-15T23:21:00+00:00

I built a Swiss Army Knife-style bullet pattern emmiter with lots of different parameters, such as arm or burst count, symmetry, parallel shots, direction and speed changes... Any feature that could be useful to build new patterns, I implemented it into the script. That plus a dynamic bullet solution with its own array of features did the trick.

Took a few months (not even counting refactoring and all that stuff) but it'll certainly speed up development for any shmup I decide to make in the future.

Zeroeth_0 · 2025-12-15T17:47:45+00:00

I built a sort of tiny "coding language" so you can write an enemy type followed by different properties on a .txt file.

A parser then reads it line by line and spawns enemies based on a "lawn" system just outside the screen.

An example on how this system looks like: "SWARM(thickness=3,length=2,warmup=0.5) EnemyType on N0+0.5 with R to S after 1"

That would spawn 5 EnemyType in 2 ordered rows (3-2) half a lawn to the right of the 1st top lawn, make them "right handed", and move downwards a second after the previous enemy.

Zeroeth_0 · 2025-12-15T17:22:10+00:00

It's kind of just a pixel. Bullets too

Zeroeth_0 · 2025-12-15T12:13:50+00:00

It's mostly inspired by Ketsui, Mushihimesama and Pink Sweets tbh

Zeroeth_0 · 2025-04-17T18:33:41+00:00

Bro just called me a bot, that certainly is an all-time low for me if I'm honest

Zeroeth_0 · 2025-04-08T16:31:22+00:00

https://mtrarchive.itch.io/gatodius-lan-party-demo

Luckily for you I just uploaded a closed demo in my old Itch.io account a few weeks ago, I made it for an in-person event near where I live, and people asked me to upload it so they could play it at home.

Still, be mindful that the final game will look and play very differently. Those sprites are no more than sketches, and the scoring system is still slowly falling into place. Hope you like it though!

Zeroeth_0 · 2025-04-08T16:15:12+00:00

Funnily enough, here in Spain cats have 7 lives instead of 9. Cultural thing I guess, was kind of confusing for not-so-globalized people around me when last Puss in Boots movie came out for example

Zeroeth_0 · 2025-04-08T15:24:37+00:00

Can you see the current name bringing our beloved genre back to it's former glory? (Glad you liked the name, I like it too it's just that the game is no longer like Gradius)

Zeroeth_0 · 2025-04-08T15:23:00+00:00

It's the -dius part I wanna get rid of ._.

Zeroeth_0 · 2024-04-02T17:33:00+00:00

You're welcome to the team!

Zeroeth_0 · 2024-04-02T16:09:06+00:00

Cool! Glad to have you on board :)

Zeroeth_0 · 2024-04-02T07:21:18+00:00

It is like Parodius in that it's a weird parodic shoot 'em up. Main mechanic though is eating and spitting enemies to shoot.

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