LittleBear says: It's six-dozen of one, half the other.
I’m obviously a fan of shmups, especially indie shmups. Now independent gets interpreted a number of different ways with regards to game development but for now I’ll just assume it means this: an individual or team that work to create the game they want to make, regardless of outside pressure from publishers, licensors, or […]
I’m very interested in Mech Battalion, a “coming soon” game shown on Glu’s website. Of particular interest is this: “Fight against up to three other players simultaneously online…” The gameplay looks close to real-time, I’ll be interested to see if Glu can pull this one off. Looks to be by the same […]
There’s a web-based Sam & Max comic strip up at Telltale Games, the start of which is here. Only two strips so far but I like how it’s an interactive comic - you roll your mouse over a panel to see something happen. While you’re there you might check out their game, […]
Congratulations to Caspian Rychlik-Prince and Ultratron on getting 2 awards in the Game Tunnel Game of the Year awards, Indie style. Ultratron placed 3rd in both the 2005 Action Game of the Year and the 2005 Game of the Year: Sound categories. More on Ultratron here.
Congratulations also to Tribal Trouble, […]
Here’s another mobile shmup published by Gameloft. It’s the prequel to Siberian Strike and therein lies its problem. Not that either game is bad, in fact I played Siberian Strike on a Nokia Series 40 phone a few years ago and quite enjoyed it. Both are airplane-themed shmups, though with “1944″ in […]
In a follow-up to this post I’ve just received an email from Play-Asia, informing me that Under Defeat has been announced for the Dreamcast in March of next year! This shmup, by G. Rev, has been getting great reviews from the Japanese arcades. It looks great, quite different than the other recent games. […]
I made a quick mockup of this for the phone, limiting it to just 2 buildings (mainly due to lazy programming) and tested it out on the Sony Ericsson S710a. Looks pretty good, and gets a very reasonable 80 FPS. I’d be happy with 15 FPS, so there’s a lot of room for […]
I’ve had this idea for an abstract shmup graphics style gnawing at my brain for a few days, so I created a mockup. It’s the top view of a city, as your fighter flies over it. The colours aren’t quite right, but they’re close. I like the idea of a lonely, melancholy […]
8bitpeoples is an interesting site I visited today. It’s “a collective of artists sharing a common love for classic videogames”. I listened to some of the songs created by the various artists and there’s some really neat, very techno, very 8 bit stuff. Most of the music is released under a liberal […]
Some games have to be played to fully appreciate just how… bizarre they are. The picture below, of Neboko, is just such a game. This is the first I’ve heard of TeamDangeroude, obviously Japanese from their website, art style, and the game itself.
Nekobo is sort of a shmup, in that the […]
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