Lunacy Star 0.8

Posted by Taizen Chisou on Dec. 20, 2011, 9:15 p.m.

An announcement

Due to my circumstances at home, the next and hopefully not final version I release will be 0.8 soon, rather than 1.0 late January.

This will happen after the completion of the final boss.

0.8 will not allow access to the Zero Stage, the Extra Stage, the Config menu, saving replays, or gamepad support.

What 0.8 will have is some amount of updated graphics, access to the fifth and sixth player shottypes, and all of the main game (stages 1 - 6) available for continous play and clearance.

Stage 6 will be unlocked in Practice (only stage 5 is now), and you won't have to have cleared/seen a stage to begin it in Practice.

Unfortunately, there are no backgrounds for stages 5 or 6.

Ideally, since there should be no changes made to the standard game, all scores from 0.8 should be compatible with scores from 1.0.

Due to the new shottypes, however, all 0.69 scores will be rendered obsolete, and will be deleted when you try to boot a newer version.

And… I think that's it.

Thanks for all of your support, everyone…

Comments

flashback 13 years, 1 month ago

So I take it you found your flash drive?

Taizen Chisou 13 years, 1 month ago

No. Umbra had a back-up, but it was from several days ago.

I had to rescript all of the final boss and some bugfixes this morning.

The backup was only the source file for Lunacy Star.

I lost all of Chaos Weapon, Ricerca Strano, Lunacy Star Second, my F4D, Black And White v3, all my Touhou games, a lot of original music I made that wasn't saved anywhere else, some art, and a lot of miscellaneous other things like Sayuri-chan and FL Studio.

flashback 13 years, 1 month ago

For when you replace your flash drive: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=33387&replies=91

Taizen Chisou 13 years, 1 month ago

Thank you. I'll see if I can get that working or something.

I read through some of the topic, I'm hoping it works well.

I'm cutting it off at 0.8 now because the only means I have of working on it now is Umbra's laptop :/

flashback 13 years, 1 month ago

64digits needs to club up and get this kid a laptop or something.

Taizen Chisou 13 years, 1 month ago

Oh, it's not so bad. My savings has like 250 dollars already- I'm almost capable of buying one for myself. The only deal would be making sure my parents never realize it exists.

My parents took my last computer on the basis that they paid for it, but I don't know if they'd take it if I bought it.

But thanks for the sentiment, though… I do appreciate it…

Taizen Chisou 13 years, 1 month ago

Mmf, so, I've only got one attack left to make.

The final boss is almost done and all that. It takes over six minutes to beat D:

Consider that the stage bosses have really been about 60, 120, 150 seconds long so far.

Of course, giving it an attack with more HP than the Idiot Box helps.

~ ONWARDS TO PROGRESS ~

Other things of note is that I have fluffified the points in the game.

Using your Overdrive mode very carefully is now very crucial to scoring.

If you have the right setup, point items can be worth over 100,000 points each.

But more importantly, that means I can crack 300,000,000 now!

On Easy.

:'(

OHHH NO NOW I HAVE TO MAKE THE RANK SYSTEM HARDER

I do want more scorerunners in this game! It would be very interesting to see how well y'all do!

And I'd ask Kilin and / or Purianite but Kilin says he doesn't ever play for score sooooo