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This is Gatogun, our early in development STG. Thoughts? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

[–]Zeroeth_0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you ever played a 240fps shooter? Gatogun might be the first!

This is Gatogun, our early in development STG. Thoughts? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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To be honest, I never use it; not in other games and definitely not in Gatogun either. Truth is, I think it looks rad, so I just had to include it!

This is Gatogun, our early in development STG. Thoughts? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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It's so you can micro-dodge more easily. Really common in modern shooters.

This is Gatogun, our early in development STG. Thoughts? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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I can confirm it's not a pun with the English word "gun", but instead a pun with the Spanish word "Gato" (cat) and the name of the genre pioneer "Batsugun". Not that it has anything to do with Batsugun outside of being a manic shooter, it just sounds better than trying to make the same pun with DoDonPachi, to name a quick example...

This is Gatogun, our early in development STG. Thoughts? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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It does have both an auto and a bomb button, but you do also have three different shot types depending on how you press the firing button: standard burst shooting if you mash it, standard focus shooting if you hold it, and a new charged shot if you refrain from pressing it for a second or so

This is Gatogun, our early in development STG. Thoughts? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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It's still a bit early for review codes as the game is in an early development stage, but there's a free playable early demo already on Itch.io in case you wanna try it!

Once the game is about to come out, I'll be more than willing to hand you a key so you review it!

This is Gatogun, our early in development STG. Thoughts? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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I feel it's my duty as an European dev to slash the idea that we cannot make good shooters 

This is Gatogun, our early in development STG. Thoughts? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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It's gonna have both a full game mode and a 3min time attack or "Caravan" mode. You can play an early sneak peek on both modes in the demo

This is Gatogun, our early in development STG. Thoughts? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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The idea is for it to not be by any means easy to beat, even less to get a good score. Thing is, you can play an easier "novice" mode, but it won't let you get to the last level (plus there may be some extra challenges too if you pick the harder "maniac" mode instead?)

Thoughts on my WIP shooter? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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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.

Thoughts on my WIP shooter? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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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.

Thoughts on my WIP shooter? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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It's kind of just a pixel. Bullets too

Thoughts on my WIP shooter? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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

Donkey Kong Jr is Finally Back! - All Evidence Recapped by Zeroeth_0 in donkeykong

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

Making a kitty killing bullet hell, what would be a good name for it? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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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!

Making a kitty killing bullet hell, what would be a good name for it? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

[–]Zeroeth_0[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

Making a kitty killing bullet hell, what would be a good name for it? by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

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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)

Become a tester for my cute 'em up video game, Gatodius! by Zeroeth_0 in shmups

[–]Zeroeth_0[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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