LittleBear says: It's six-dozen of one, half the other.
Shmup-Dev now has information up on their next contest, the Dragon SHMUP Competition. The last contest, the Horizontal Shooter with Boss Competition, provided quite a few great entries. Let’s hope for more of the same with this one. The contest runs over the next 2 months, expect coverage of the entries as […]
Star Horizon has been announced at Shmup-Dev. The current posting there “is intended to be only a compatibility test and combat feedback”, so go ahead and help out. The game looks great, and looks to be designed for multiplayer, team combat.
Tempest: Event Horizon is a re-make of the Atari classic from Blackrat Studios. It’s what I would call a “blackbox” re-make, with gameplay and behaviours re-created through observation and memory. It’s competent enough, though it lacks any animation in the enemies of the original. It also lacks most of the frantic excitement […]
Tried out a couple Nintendo DS homebrew projects on my machine today.
The first is the start of a shmup, called Shoot & Score, information here. Not much yet, but I do like the idea of using both screens for a kind of tate mode.
A more interesting project is a port […]
Pixel_Outlaw (Ryan Burnside) says that with v5.0 Heavy Gun Blossom is finished. As an experiment it’s worked fairly well. It’s certainly bullet hell, you against the machine… the one machine that generates bullets in some good patterns. The one problem (or challenge, depends on your point of view) is the reliance on […]
Danmaku Gata has a link to the download of a small game called Reflection Haiki. An interesting game mechanic, your own shots reflect off of the white square, at which point they become dangerous to your player. You get points by scraping these reflected shots. The screen fills up rather quickly, so […]
I was reading Tim’s review of Terav at Independent Gaming and found Shatter at the developer’s site. It’s an abstract little shmup, quite hard to play. That may have been due to my choosing the slower (but higher powered) of the two ships available at startup. I always choose power over speed, […]
My phone, a SonyEricsson S710a isn’t supported yet but you have to love a company making mobile shmups. Check out Akatora Content Services. Looks like some interesting games there.
You can now sign-up for beta testing of Floodgate’s Pirates of the Caribbean Mulitplayer Game. I’ve seen earlier (much earlier!) versions of this, a couple years ago in a different life. Very impressive at the time, closest thing to real-time on mobile I’ve witnessed. It’s cool to be a pirate, or a […]
Some pretty interesting screen shots have been put up here at the Shmup Forum. Perhaps a little dark, but looking good all the same. Reminds me of R-Type Final. Also, check out Blastocyst by the same developer. It’s another Asteroids game (see what I mean about cycles?), and this one is […]
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