I haven't had a devblog for this game, I think. Maybe one or two pictures, but no real information. This is an old game that I submitted for a YYG contest a while back, and then it was pretty short and low quality, but it was the only game I could actually call done. So I decided to do some further work on it lately. And since I'm not JakeX, I figured I'd share with people who could provide useful advice.

Touhou probably did something for it too. I hate that game. It's so hard.

For those who don't know the game:

This is a shoot-em-up. But it's not your "one hit you die" type of game. You've got an armor bar, and once that's down, you (obviously) explode. Collect powerups, shields, blah blah blah to enhance your ship.

The game also follows a "Bullet Hell" style for you sadistic gamers.

In case you do remember this game, it's gone through a massive revamp, the most visible change being extra ships and modified gameplay mechanics. So without further ado, here are the ships.

Though this picture doesn't really capture the range of the Sweeper, the idea is that it can clear out waves from a stationary point because of its wide bullet spread. Its power is fairly low, but if you get closer to the enemy, you can focus your fire.

Bomb: Shoots a slow-moving orb that reaches the middle of the screen, then detonates. Medium preparation time, short duration.

The Needler is a pure damage ship with a small range. It's pretty fast and evasive, but damages by using a barrage of needle-shaped bullets to finish off bosses before they finish you off.

Bomb: Fires a massive laser in front of the ship. No preparation time, medium duration.

The Launcher, as you may have guessed, launches rockets. Like the Needler, it's built for damage, but attacks slowly, though the attacks are very powerful. Upgrades add homing rockets, which greatly increase the potential range.

Bomb: Calls three extremely unstable rockets. When they reach the middle of the screen, they will cause a massive explosion. Long preparation time, long duration.

The Titan isn't much larger than other ships. The reason it bears that name is because it can take a heavy amount of damage. The disadvantage is that both it and its bulletfire are very slow, so one might resort to ramming the waves instead of shooting at them. However, the bulletfire will often destroy enemy bullets. Upgrading gives it a constant laser, which is weak but reliable.

Bomb: Sends out three pulse waves to clear the screen. No preparation time, medium duration.

Fin

The game's coming along nicely, but currently only has one stage, and I face a problem concerning powerups. Within the next week or so, I should have a few more levels, and some neat bullet patterns (for what is a bullet hell game without bullet patterns?).

Then I can finally have a game I can call finished. Wheee.

By the way, graphics are pretty temporary, so cut me some slack there.