fiGames / Stellar Fury

Can't believe it took me this long to figure it out. Massive bullet visibility boost by simply having the entire bullet (and glow) sit on black instead of transparent. Better contrast against the bg.

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Clearing shmups does require you to clear your head of all the bullsh*t

Interesting feeling route. Gotta do this little dance on the edge of a knife. The midboss will timeout and if you don't get enough dmg you won't kill it otherwise.
Easier to dodge going to the far edge but you won't dmg it there.

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Feel like this guys needs one or two more moves... but maybe not. idk.
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YouTube video by The Hidden Fortress The Shmup Sanctuary

If you haven't seen The Hidden Fortress' latest vid.
It hits hard - go take a listen!
youtube.com/watch?v=S0JO...

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Earthion Original Soundtrack, by Yuzo Koshiro 31 track album

Also Earthion OST rules: bravewave.bandcamp.com/album/earthi...

YouTube video by fiGames / Stellar Fury Playing Eschatos as two seperate games

www.youtube.com/watch?v=otC8...

First section of level 4 in #Eschatos can suck it. Seriously most troublesome part of the game I've encountered. Very route heavy.
Also, uploaded a new video about my experiences with Eschatos. Made it to Level 6 (starting with 2 extends at level 4)

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ZOE Begone! is OUT NOW on PC and consoles! 🥳🥳🥳

Adding some randomized shots on top of a predicable pattern is a good way to spice it up. It's delicate though...

These might be patterns sufficiently scary for the level 4a secret boss.
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Added section indicators (both popup and in the side panel hud). Should make it easier if you want to jump over to practice a section (and actually know what section you want to practice). My time with Eschatos reminded me that I wanted to do this.

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YouTube video by fiGames / Stellar Fury Defeat the final boss of your heart

Defeat the final boss of your heart
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=yozx...

But the frothing demand for this new "tea" increases and now when tea lovers talk about tea, everyone just pictures a grubby cup of coffee.

I'm going to go start a new tea house that offers this new elevated and revolutionized tea with the bean from the coffea plant.". These tea lovers give is new "tea" a sample and say "wait, isn't this just a grubby cup of coffee?"

Tea lovers exclaim, "Hey! That's tea at all!" and ask "There are lots of fine tea here to sample would you like to try some?" and this person says "No thanks, I don't like flavor or experience that those teas provide.

Everything is fine in the world of tea lovers until one day someone enters the tea house and says that they are going to make a new, better tea from the bean of the coffea plant.

Some people really like tea. There are tea houses they can go to to sample different flavors and varieties of tea. People have their own tools for preparing and consuming tea. Brewing tea has a particular process and everyone has their own techniques.
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YouTube video by fiGames / Stellar Fury Difficult games are not hard to make

Got some thoughts on making hard games
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-h...

I need this.

Yeah I saw this- trying to normalize eggs costing $10+ a dozen...

Do you think it's pronounced "draw-eye-nus"? the "I" in the logo is prominent

More work on the updated title intro #shmups #stg #indiegame #gamedev

Mockup/Rough copy of updated title art.
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A lot of games now aren't really games- they are engineered dopamine trigger schedules.

Experiences you end up resenting because it strings you along and keeps you playing but hard to determine if it was actually rewarding or fulfilling.

And the puzzles - you get hints if you don't solve it immediately... like God forbid I actually play a game

Yeah I recall watching a gdc video about this...

I remember playing GoW on hard. You could taste the fear I might stop playing...

Some of the bosses were a good challenge - but most of the fights were a slog of button mashes.

You can tell just by watching the clip that there's some auto-move towards the nearest enemy when attacking. You can see the player just swinging the sword at the air towards the enemies...

Game plays itself.

Add a bomb effect/screen clear when you respawn. Dying flush with resources can actually yield MORE points than a regular or special screen clear giving the option for an intentional death for scoring benefit.

Dying in a shmup is already punishment enough. I decided to add some mechanics to make it feel less bad.
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