Thanks a lot! Very happy to hear that about the visuals + difficulty curve. Also damn, you're learning it quite quickly too, the power of using practice mode 💪
Not Dream Course in particular but Kirby was definitely in the back of my mind when making it, along with stuff like Bomberman, Mr Do, Goof Trop, Shiren, etc.
Nah you don't need to play them and I think this game's different enough that none of the skills will transfer anyway, but you shouuld play them regardless cuz they're awesome
The CSP/Procreate thing is mostly cuz I prefer drawing on Procreate when using my ipad, and then use CSP on PC for image editing. I didn't use textures in Blender at all, it's just a simple color ramp "toon shader" rendered at low res. Most of the assets like tiles/etc. are 2D pixel art but the characters & moving objects are pre-rendered 3D
Oh the bullets don't disappear they just turn invisible and you have to dodge them on prediction rather than sight. Just testing whether or not you can stream bullets without constantly looking at them, which is a core skill in shmups
Thanks a lot! Yea it's a pretty rare mix from what I've seen, most bullet hell inspired run n guns are a lot more boss rushy with very short stages like Bleed 2 and stuff
Mark II is a small build I did for a friend - it removes inertia from dashing but also removes the slide, and removes the weapon power levels. The performance is really iffy though cause it's a quick & sloppy GMS 1.4 to GMS 2 conversion so you might get some stutters when loading in levels and what not.
Yes & no. No in the sense that it's on hold overall cause the artist & I are busy with other stuff, yes in the sense that I've added a lot of stuff since the demo
Glad you enjoyed it! Good suggestions also, parriable projectile types are probably left for an expanded ver of this demo but I can add the rest np I think. Maybe some local bullet cancels if you kill enemies with melee right as they're shooting, otherwise even the "soft sealing" thing might not do the trick
Did you try to config controls right off the bat and quit out of it accidentally? Either way, go to %localappdata%/Chaos_Devil_Battler_Zattan and delete settings.ini. Relaunching after that should work
No worries, it's slow due to work rather than any loss of interest or anything like that. Once me & the artist have more free time we'll get back to it
What I mean is that the game sometimes stops drawing the player's shots mid-travel, I think the bullets themselves still run the code and everything but the sprites disappear for a while, kinda creating these weird gaps. The distance varies, and whether or not they'll appear also varies, might be an issue on my end though
Yeah I'll release an update addressing common complaints and finishing some stuff I didn't have time for with maybe some other extras. Just so I can feel like its a properly fleshed out mini game. Beyond that though Im not sure, my focus is on finishing Mechanical Star Astra atm
