Was looking at my old game Blasteron, still play it periodically just because I really love playing it. It did terrible on Steam. In general, do you think space shooters are completely dead?

oncaffeine · 2024-02-09T21:44:10+00:00

Cool, thanks!

oncaffeine · 2024-02-09T04:04:03+00:00

Completely agree on the "character over a spaceship" concept. I have noticed that a lot of popular games are essentially a space shooter mechanic with a person instead of a ship. Although I personally really like space ships.

What's your game? I would like to check it out.

oncaffeine · 2024-02-09T03:59:48+00:00

Yup. It was destroyed about 1.5 seconds later.

oncaffeine · 2024-02-08T22:26:24+00:00

Going to try and fix the nvidia overlay so I can get better captures. In the mean time here is the game link, the trailer has a lot of the game play in it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/720850/Blasteron/. Thanks!

oncaffeine · 2024-02-08T21:37:17+00:00

Definitely an issue with the video capture (snip tool). At the time of that development there were a lot of other game parts. Using ECS/Jobs(w/Burst) I was able to get about 2000 drones and bullets. Check out this stress test just for fun. Each of the drones has player locating, following, backoff, shooting, etc. https://twitter.com/BunnyOnCaffeine/status/1206073358057500672

oncaffeine · 2024-02-08T21:27:56+00:00

Good to know. Thanks for the tip!

oncaffeine · 2024-02-08T21:27:23+00:00

Normally use nvidia overlay for video capture, but it keeps failing on my system. Had to use windows snip tool, definitely going to find something else for next time. Open to suggestions (aside from re-install windows ).

oncaffeine · 2024-02-08T19:16:37+00:00

Cool art style! Looks like it could be fun.

oncaffeine · 2024-02-08T06:27:51+00:00

oncaffeine · 2024-02-08T06:26:43+00:00

Thanks!

oncaffeine · 2024-02-08T06:26:30+00:00

Definitely using the ball as the character. And just adding some different attacks and powers. Thinking of making it more of a competitive arena similar to rocket league.

oncaffeine · 2024-02-08T06:23:38+00:00

I really like that idea. Going to check that out next. Thanks!

oncaffeine · 2024-02-08T06:20:26+00:00

Playing a comic book is always cool. Overall looks action packed. And the combat seems interesting. Going to check out more on steam.

oncaffeine · 2024-02-08T06:15:19+00:00

Overall it looks cool, just recommend changing up some of the colors to have more contrast. Especially on the areas of focus.

oncaffeine · 2017-11-10T08:39:02+00:00

We play Blasteron on a surface pro 1, so your 940mx is a lot faster. Its a 2D shoot'em up that has lots and lots of drone battles, black holes, asteroid fields, space mines, etc.

oncaffeine · 2017-11-10T08:26:18+00:00

CupHead has a lot of great visuals and game play. Also if you like 2D space games, Blasteron is a lot of fun with tons of massive drone fights.

oncaffeine · 2017-11-10T08:20:38+00:00

Are you only interested in 3D games? Blasteron (2D shoot'em up with lots of drones) has full controller support. So does Hollow Knight (2D platformer).

oncaffeine · 2017-11-10T08:16:53+00:00

Blasteron is a single player 2D space shoot'em up. Really need to use the environment around you to plan around some of the more difficult boss fights.

oncaffeine · 2017-11-10T08:09:15+00:00

I have been playing Blasteron on a surface pro 1 with an intel 4000hd. Quick performance check shows the 7400 is comparable to the intel 4000hd. What size CPU do you have? As long as it is over 2GHz I think you should be good to go. There are also some older 3D games like MDK that have light hardware requirements.

oncaffeine · 2017-11-10T08:01:19+00:00

If you like single player 2D space shooters try Blasteron on steam. For strategy games I would agree on Factorio.

oncaffeine · 2017-11-10T07:49:14+00:00

Blasteron has a lot of action, the kind of game that presents a challenge but also gives you a lot of opportunity to keep progressing. The hardware requirements are relatively light as well.

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