Typhoon Unit ~ Butterfly Requiem

Been putting some work into improving the tutorial. Gonna put out a small update for the demo in a few weeks.
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Been putting some work into improving the tutorial. Gonna put out a small update for the demo in a few weeks.
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Typhoon Unit is built around swapping between the trio and using their abilities in combination. If you chain abilities together, you build up Synergy Combo, which grants all of your characters a power boost and scores you way more points!
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ABILITY HIGHLIGHT: Temporal Warp (Fia)
Fia, a Celestial Fae, has access to powerful time-stopping magic. While time is stopped, she can pass through all hazards, and even absorb purple bullets! Great for repositioning!
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Just a sassy little fairy who loves to show off! 🧚‍♀️
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Beware of Maya's siren allure! If you stare too long, you'll fall under her spell. Swap out often and keep up the pressure!
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YouTube video by Ghostly Feline Gameplay Reel (Magfest 2024 Cut) - Typhoon Unit ~ Butterfly Requiem

Typhoon Unit ~ Butterfly Requiem is a side-scrolling bullet hell action game! Swap heroes on the fly, and chain together abilities to turn the tables on your foes!
Full game coming 2025!
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Beware of Maya's siren allure! If you stare too long, you'll fall under her spell. Swap out often and keep up the pressure!
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Back from a brief break. Regular posts will resume next week!

Took more of a break than I'd expected to. Unfortunately got sick immediately after Christmas, which set me back a few days. 😓

Hopefully I can rebuild momentum in a timely manner. I've got still got cutscenes to sketch.

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Yooo, my bro made the blorbos!

Taking a break from posting this week. Enjoy the holidays everybody!

The new Stage Trial menu is looking pretty slick, don't you think?
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The new Stage Trial menu is looking pretty slick, don't you think?
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Just a sassy little fairy who loves to show off! 🧚‍♀️
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ABILITY HIGHLIGHT: Dragon Fist (Casey)
Casey, the close-range brawler, uses her powerful flaming fists to smash through red bullets! At full charge, this devastating punch can shatter shields and stun foes!
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ABILITY HIGHLIGHT: Dragon Fist (Casey)
Casey, the close-range brawler, uses her powerful flaming fists to smash through red bullets! At full charge, this devastating punch can shatter shields and stun foes!
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For the ocean background, I wanted to go for a 3D look, but couldn't get GameMaker to cooperate, so I got creative with 2D layers. The water gradient is a static backdrop, while the waves and sparkles are parallax layers at different scales and speeds to simulate depth.

The player characters from my indie game.

Finally, I should probably also mention a technique called Object Pooling. Recycling bullets into new ones when they are no longer active. This basically lets you skip the process of creating and destroying instances. Typhoon Unit hasn't needed this yet, but it's something to keep in mind.

Basically, I create a list for each color of bullet, and populate it with all bullets of that color. Before looping through all of them to draw them, I set the shader to that color's parameters. That way I'm only doing it once per color instead of per bullet.

Other than that, a lot of the optimization work comes in the rendering step. Typhoon Unit uses central renderer objects assigned to each layer. Since the bullets are color-coded, I can render them in batches to save on gpu computations. Code's a little long to show, but I can describe it.

First, the more times you have to run collision code, the longer it takes. So put it on the things that the bullets will hit, rather than the bullets. There's usually less. Make the player check for enemy bullets, and enemies check for player bullets.

Here's a sample of the player code.

Great question!

Each bullet in Typhoon Unit is an object instance. Since the bullets are rather large in size, I can get away with using fewer of them in patterns than other danmaku games might use. I can give a few implementation tips though.

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Thanks!

ABILITY HIGHLIGHT: Temporal Warp (Fia)
Fia, a Celestial Fae, has access to powerful time-stopping magic. While time is stopped, she can pass through all hazards, and even absorb purple bullets! Great for repositioning!
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ABILITY HIGHLIGHT: Critical Strike (Gale)
Gale, the engineer of the group, has a weapon that can lock on to a target. It does little damage normally, but if an enemy is stunned or winding up an attack, the blast will deal massive damage.
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ABILITY HIGHLIGHT: Critical Strike (Gale)
Gale, the engineer of the group, has a weapon that can lock on to a target. It does little damage normally, but if an enemy is stunned or winding up an attack, the blast will deal massive damage.
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Happy Birthday GameMaker! Inspired by my friend @grogdev.bsky.social, I wanted to talk about my own game dev journey, which started with GM, and continues with GM.
A lot of stuff is many years and several computers ago, but for more recent stuff I'll try to have video.
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Going to #MAGFest again in January. Decided to skip the indie showcase this year and try again next year when Typhoon Unit will be released. This is the time of year where I'd normally be overpolishing my demo, so I've been thinking about how weird it feels to not be doing that.

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