LittleBear says: Wake up and spill the coffee.
Spout is surprisingly fun (and frustratingly difficult) for such a simple concept. You have a ship armed only with thrusters. Your goal is to make your way up the screen while avoiding the gray pixels blocking your way. Luckily, your exhaust can melt (or erode) the barriers. You get extra time […]
Actually, it might be Heavy Gun Blossem, but both are used. It’s an interesting little work in progress. So far it’s just shoot and avoid the bullets. The colours caught my eye. The author is looking for constructive critique here, on the Shmups forum.
PARSEC47 is one of Kenta Cho’s earlier games, and until recently one of the ones I played the least. It just didn’t seem to capture my interest like Noiz2sa, nor did it seem to have the polish of his most recent efforts. Don’t fall victim to this thinking yourself and miss out on […]
A short developer’s diary type update on Shade today, so you know the project’s not completely stalled. Just a little bug that I tracked down, one that will seem pretty naive to a lot of people.
I wrote a 3D vector class, using fixed point math. I was excercising it a little […]
It’s been kind of slow lately for shmups recently, so it seems like a good time to introduce Perfect Cherry Blossom, the second of Team Shanghai Alice’s PC based shmups. Fact of the matter is, though, this game likely needs no introduction. It’s a little presumptious of me to try and “show case” […]
Shoot the Core has a good article up with impressions of Under Defeat. The game sounds great, and is on my wish list. Good, old Dreamcast, I love that machine. They just keep making great shmups for it.
Over at the Shmups forum there’s a very well-done and indepth review of Imperishable […]
I just happened to see a recent Bill Venners article, After Seven Years, Are Devices Ready for Jini? A very nice account of what PsiNaptic have been up to recently, which is putting JMatos (complete with a Lookup Service) on a Nokia 9500 cell phone. Good to see they’re doing well (has it […]
My SuperCard CF arrived today from Kick Trading. After I downloaded and installed the SuperCard software I was able to actually launch a program on both my GBA and my Nintendo DS. I downloaded Blast Arena Advance and used the SuperCard software to “convert” it into an output directory. From there I […]
I used to draw little animations in pocket books that you could flip through. I remember drawing Spiderman fighting Green Goblin, or in another fighting Electro. My son Charlie loves to draw and doodle now, so I was thinking about doing this as a little project with him. However, here’s a better […]
It’s always a nice surprise to discover a new game, and such is the case with Zero Hour. It’s good to find it from a new source (or rather new to me). It’s great when the game is good, like this is. Actually, it’s not yet finished, as it’s just the first […]
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