I found myself 

taking this to the 2nd page.
well,, looks like i finally found Jal. :D
4/7

never mind found it.

so you are the only one left.

found tarro!! i have collected all seven.

Edited by spartan_117 - 05 November 2007 at 10:52am

your going to have a really hard time finding the phrase if you dont know wha you are looking for.

Haha i'm not even gunna bother looking anymore. Found kitty, tarro and rustbug tho! :D (in that order).

Awesome work Squid.

When finished I look forward to mastering the real game here. We need more pixel art shmups not the new prerender sh*t (DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou) and Mars Matrix. Sprite artists are in a bind due to the high resolution screens. Nobody wants to make scenes with detailed images so they just use scaling with prerendering and sprite anti-aliasing.

Edited by Pixel_Outlaw - 05 November 2007 at 7:37pm

Honestly I wish you the best of luck. You have some balls using sprites that good with all the sprite ripping crooks about. I think sprite rippers are the main reason why I haven't made many raster games.

Edited by Pixel_Outlaw - 05 November 2007 at 10:44pm

I'm now an Easter Egg in a great shmup...

i would suggest encryption ( make your own file format ). I would also suggest making it shockwave as it is harder to rip but u would need a shockwave player , it wouldnt be practical and wouldn't look professional and u cant use it on consoles(obviousley). www.gamedev.net has always been there for me when stuck in a mess. Try the forums or articles.

encryption is a good thing... Shockwave ain't IMO.For one, because we have a DirectX coder and not a shockwave coder, and 2. we want to deliver a product of professional quality, and Shockwave games, no matter how good they are, are often marked as "cheap" by many customers.

A Steam release might be a good idea, if it isn't too expensive. And, yea we'r planing to make this game as awesome as Shoot em ups get :)


Edited by Squirrelsquid - 07 November 2007 at 6:45am

I guess the price would depend on both the quality of the game. Like if the game is only 6 levels then I guess that might be a little short depending of course on the length of each level.
PS. You guys better go and copyright your stuff asap :P

but i suposse that we, as easter eggs, will have a special copy of the game, isn't?

 

but I'm an easter egg... i'm you special, random generated 'fliying creep' that gives 100.000 pts... and in a score game, that is important!

I suppose my copy will go unused since I can't imagine this being Mac friendly.


*continues playing finding not finding easter eggs. Can't even find myself.

Jal is right... and besides I have posted these graphics all over the web, AND in my gallery... so there is hardly a way, to let someone else say:
"ITZ MIN3! I M/\D€ THE GFX! L00k I'm making a game called ret@rd zone!"

if that happens I'll hunt him down with my TAF RX-Cerberus and blow his house up or something... anyway, here's a loong read. ( i hope it is fun to read as well)



The Alien Menace evolves

at first, the omnivore, where not even called omnivore, but carnivore.
back then I was developing the graphics and gamedesign for a swedish
mobile phone company. it only featured 4 bosses and a hand full of enemies.
but the meaty metal creatures where already there... although most featured
real human eyes, like this one:



you'll probably right away notice differences with the X-static bellow:



the new enemys all got more metal shades as well as the Eye of sauron thing.
there's not a single one without it, even the smallest has it, to get an even look for
the alien race. at a certain point during the graphic production, I expanded the
material-collection with a bone-material, that you can see in the mockup.

I'll introduce more materials to the creatures if there is new materia they can fuse
themself with. if there are asteroids, they will fuse with asteroids and fly towards
you,if they infect a plant, the plant will mutate and shoot at you.

the omnivore are driven soley by the desire to fuse, reproduce and destruction.
They have a collective mind, but only small creatures rely on that heavily, making
them rather predictable. They can shift dimensions and actualy attack with small
dimensional worm-holes. It is uncertain from wich dimension the Omnivore
originated.

it is clear however, that they invaded our world through a dimension
classified as "Lazarus Dimension", where they aquired lots of DNA and abilities
from a highly technical race known as the "insert fancy name here".

Eventualy the omnivore devoured all materia in this universe, so they searched
out  for new dimension to feed from.

At some point the Colonization ship Fenrir reached planet Cronos, and received
the construction-plans for space-folding technology via EXO-link. -

EXO-link was an early spacefolding technology, that got discovered by the famous
physics Scientist and engineer "Dr. Pavel Pipovich", who is also on board the
Leviathan.
He will analyze emies along the way, and will create new equipment
and tools while in flight.

The mentioned space-folding technology was a horrible failure since the scientist
crew did not calculate the variouse coordinates correctly, opening a worm-hole
from our world to the Lazarus Dimension.

you guys can imagine what happens next I guess.


now, the new version demands even bigger creatures ( I'll die when there's the
milestone with the first boss) so the small ones become tiny, and the otherwise big
enemies become medium enemies, and the bosses will be some of the biggest
pixel-creatures known to man, so I thought it would be wise to draw ideas for
enemies in my "survival book" first, along with a short written description.
only if I like the selout and the shapes, I will scan it in, and do a quick coloring in
photoshop, that looks like this one:



the "restless soul" is very hard to destroy, since it automaticly goes into standby
mode when it low on health, recharging itself once shut down. if the player doesn't
destroy it, it will reactivate with full health, and will start attacking again.
you can use this to your advamtage too though, since you always rais your chain
and get the score of the enemy, when it goes into standby.

that's all rants for now, hope you had an interesting read.


(new mockup with infected cerberus, using a dimensional shield)

EDIT: the sketch was missing... did a mod edit my post because of the NPA? if so, I apologize, and the image can be removed again.


Edited by Squirrelsquid - 08 November 2007 at 10:08am

Vaginaship.

i hate to spoil the suspense....

since I don't feel like opening another Havoc Zone WIP thread, I decided to make this thread a Dump from now on. ;)

here's the current progress on the restless soul enemy... pixeling large creatures sure takes it's time, but it's just very rewarding.




Edited by Squirrelsquid - 13 November 2007 at 5:04pm

and again some more progress:
 

Crit: the mandibley-wingy bits look beautiful, but rather flat. They look directly top-down while the rest doesn't. Try and bulk them out some.

The restless soul in it's natural habitat:


100th post wooooo! ^^;

I'm bumping like a maniac here... hope that's ok? :/

The Wing-blades are made out of Bone, one of the materials, that an Omnivore organism can produce, without the need to fuse with materia.

And, I currently have no idea where in the game this enemie will be... but it will probably be in the first public demo.


Edited by Squirrelsquid - 20 November 2007 at 4:57am