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The Nanite Swarm is a more aggressive style of play. Swapping between spewing missiles & using is disassembly ability to one shot bigger ships and heal.
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The Nanite Swarm's Disassembly might not hit the most enemies at once, but I really like the way the ships look as consumed. I have to make myself use other attacks so I earn upgrade tokens.
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The Nanite Swarm was created after going down the list of sci-fi apocalypse. We did not have a grey goo one, so we added it.
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Ark Defender Boss Spotlight: Drinaa Processor The Drinna lore seems like they should have been locust inspired, but their spider visual were too much. So devouring spiders they be! They tractor beams are Gravity Electro-Magnetic emitters and use a combination of various forces to move stuff. Ark Defender Boss Spotlight: Drinaa Processor

This week's Ark Defender short is on our devouring swarm spider people's boss!
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This week in development challenges for Doomed Stars, the Automated Dreadnought. What kept tripping us up was getting the movement right. But the rotation vs strafing kept causing issues.
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I like the little thruster jet VFX on the ship as in course corrects and accelerates.

Seems like good progress for day 3.

At least you have an idea of what will break before you break it.....🤷

They let you flap to gain height?

Explosive ping-pong go brrrrrrrrrr.

Is that an evil emu? Because historically wars against them don't go great....

I don't know how doable this is with your systems, but a cool mechanic might be if you hit an enemy with the hammer from the right angle they get knocked back along their track.

Aww. What a cute little demon in the corner there. He just wants to do a little stabbing before bed.

Why is it that purple is what we associate with necromancers so often? Is it just because it is a stand-in for black? Or is there a media that popularized it?

"Oh my grandma, what a big laser you have!"
"The better to range find and see how far you are from me dear."

Very cool. Always nice to keep things moving for players when traversing areas.

Nice smooth zoom in.

Now we just need a lava boy model.

This week in our Doomed Stars retrospective, the favorite visual on the Automated Dreadnought. The screen filling teleport, while it is a rework of a VFX from Ark Defender, it still counts.
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The Automated Dreadnought is best used by spamming its drones while staying on the periphery & looking for good bowgun shots.
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While it is locked behind and evolution, my favorite drone the Automated Dreadnought can spit out is the Advanced Drone. Perhaps an easy answer as it is a combo fighter/bomber & better than either.
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The Automated Dreadnought was a little different than other monsters. It started as a mechanic (allies doing the fighting) then developed from there. Borrowing from the Hellspawn style in Ark Defender.
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This week's Doomed Star's short introduces the Automated Dreadnought
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Usually that sentence pattern isn't supposed to just be objectively true. But I guess it can be here. Once. As a treat.

I was specifically referring to the guys here. Just seems like some animation could make the firing "pop" a bit more.

This week’s Doomed Stars dev difficulty retrospective, the Dimensional Horror. The retracting tentacles had so many problems. They kept getting stuck or not allowing swapping abilities.
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Looking pretty cool. I feel like the next step might be some kickback animation on the firer or a little more sound for the firing to give the projectile some more feeling of power behind it?

Ah yes, the classic anger fueled murder spree. A tale as old as time.

What wonders shall those research points unlock? What advancements in science shall be discovered!

Fixes needed or not, it is a cool animation.

I like the additions of the little ice crystals when it gets frozen.