I'm watching how you progress Shook. Good job.
I would like to make you another menu screen image, since I'm sure I can do it better. No charge or anything, just want to help you in your work. If you want, that is.

I was thinking to make it a bit more appealing. Some girl in the pilot space suit standing in front of the space fighter and behind her is a planet surface with space above and the space ship fight.

I just need the dimensions of the image, and I'll send you PSD file, so you can latter add game name above all of it. Just say the word.

...And if you wish something else (maybe u have different idea for the menu screen image), just tell me what you want.

You would? Awesome! It's not that the current background is bad (it's really quite nice), but if you say you can do even better, then by all means, go for it! Image resolution is 640x480, and i have no better ideas than you do. :U

In other news...



Spot the difference(s). Basically all i have to do now is to make level 9, which involves placing a metric fuckton of enemies.

Glad to see you picked this up again
If I can be any help, please do contact me

So ye, i just got to try this, and i gotta say this is rather amazing, i loved this to bits.
Im a fan of oldschool bullethells and this just brought it to the line of frustration, in a good way, it was hard as fuck i could feel that i could beat it if i just tried it one more time, and one more time after that.

The soundtrack sure as hell helped me a great deal aswell, loved it.
So my hat of to you sir. Well done.


One thing though, you thought about adding pad support?

oshit
ur starting development on this game again?

Yes indeed. c:

@JellyNinja: THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT! I've been dying to hear what people think, but nobody cared enough to make a detailed comment like that, until now. (now don't get me wrong, i still greatly appreciate any relevant comment/offer)
As for pad... Well, i don't use it myself, which complicates things. Game Maker does have joystick support though, so i won't rule it out entirely, but it doesn't seem to support omnidirectional input like a joystick is actually capable of. It only has up/down/left/right for options, which is fine for movement, but sub-par for the turret unless i make some clever auto-targeting shenanigans (which is super hard). So yeah, maybe in the future, but no guarantees.

@Chartle: Glad to have picked it up again. ;)
Also, I SHALL. No major issues right now, but at some point i might need assistance with saving things in a text file or something, unless i can work out a clever way to keep tabs on progress with the normal saves (different profiles??).

Also, currently working on level 9 (which you will hate me for, it's the absolute hardest level up till now), and have done a few tweaks to things. Notably, shields now take damage proportional to the difficulty (they didn't before), so now they can't save your butt quite as much on Nightmare. On the other hand, a new pair of upgrades speed up shield recharge and "down time", which is the time after getting hit/broken where it doesn't recharge.
Basically, a shield without those upgrades has a down time of 30 ticks (60 when broken, 30 ticks/sec), and recharges fully in 150 ticks. With both upgrades, down time is 20/40 ticks, and recharge time is 90 ticks, which is actually significantly faster than before these tweaks. Said upgrade also buffs your super charge speed, meaning you can launch even more of those delicious giant boolits.

arp arp

edit: more arp



I've completed the level on Nightmare (with realistic quantities of cash and skillpoints (which is not shown in this screenshot)), so surely you can do it on Normal. :U

fuck yes bro

addictive as hell
A+

brb making chiptune music for this game you're welcome

edit: nevermind, seems you put music in it already. that breaks my heart.

MORE IS BETTER

Although i've already received two offers for music making, i've yet to get any tracks from these people, and i'm of the perhaps silly mentality that variety is good. I do have a little backlog of suitable music tracks, but i'm running out quickly. If you can contribute something awesome, then by all means, i'd love to hear it!

In other news, Chartle has jumped on the programming wagon, and is making the second boss for you to enjoy. My current dilemma lies in whether i should release the version as it is now, or wait for Chartle to finish the boss, which would also require a fair bit of spriting from me.

Also, i've recently changed the spread shot to applying a really mean damage debuff rather than the previous "i lower your damage by 5 lol". Now, it permanently cuts your damage output in half. It's actually not as bad as it sounds, because even at a mere 7 damage it's still quite capable of destroying masses of foes. Past level 10, however, it won't be quite as overpowered. :U

Can probably make some aswell although it might take a while, not really free until friday, so start workin on one then, i'll keep you updated. ^^