First, here's a funny video for those of you who play shoot-em-ups, and especially those familiar with Touhou. Basically, I was right at the end and died. It was depressing. Fifteen minutes of dodging waaaasted.
How embarrassing….I've been talking with Purianite a bit lately, and he recommended a couple shoot-em-ups to me. So I downloaded them. But I haven't played them. The only one I did play was Ikaruga (where has it been my whole life?), and man, that's a fun game. School's just about out, and summer's just work and no class. That means I can actually make progress on some games.Right now it's a juggle between- Lixim- Terminys- LODM- Prism SoulI'm also doing a little activity called "novel in 30 days," where I basically write a novel outside of my comfort zone (genre, etc), and write as if I'm attempting to get it published, which I might, depending on how it turns out.I think that's it for now. I'll have progress blogs later.
any more bullets?
Get that novel published, I'll fesure buy it.
I'm pretty sure I recently heard of a shmup in which you play as a boss, in fact, I think someone here mentioned it.
Cactus Arcade 2. Most of the games in the pack suck, but it has 3 or 4 good examples of his shmups. Other good smups are Fractal Fighter, Burn the Trash, and Protoganda.What's great about his shmups is the concepts, he has interesting mechanics which range from repelling debris of your enemies in Ad Nauseum, using foes weapons on themselves in Krytza, to taking on randomly generated bosses which take the form of fractals, in Fractal Fighter.Fractal Fighter is probably his most interesting one.I had a ton of fun with Ikaruga. Beating it is one of my greatest accomplishments regarding video games.
Also, can I consider Geometry Wars and Beat Hazard as shmups? I really really enjoy those too :>Geometry Wars looks fun, and surprisingly enough, I've never thought about getting it. Maybe I'll look into it soon.
Quick guys, give me fun shmup ideas that haven't been done yet. Just a single mechanic will do.Geometry Wars is addictive for how simple it is….and really hard.
I think Geometry wars is more of an arena shooter?
Oh, another awesome space shooter is Captain Forever, a game in which you construct your ship using scavenged parts, in real time. Probably classifies better as a strategic shooter, but whatever.Need ideas? The player can't shoot, but must deflect the enemy's attacks, similarly to how it is done in LoZ:OoT with a couple bosses.I've played Captain forever. Wouldn't classify it as a bullet hell shmup, but it's a great game.
And the idea is noted. Thank you.Darn, now I am inspired to make a unique shmup. I'm thinking something along the lines where the goal is to actually get hit by the bullets, not doing so will cause you to die.
Kind of silly, but yeah.Heheh, if you can find a way to explain why the enemies would still be firing at you, that would work.