A steampunk shoot 'em up that is heavily inspired by steel empire on the megadrive
can be played on phone or tablet by you may get slow down on older tablets also works well on a pc with a mouse.


I originally made this in 2017 and put it on the scirra arcade it never really got much attention so I am reuploading it here. Now since I made this before pixel crisis it's probably not going to be as good but I would like for more people to play it and tell me what they think.
is it worth finishing or remaking once I finish Pixel Crisis?

also, the music is from steel empire and sword of vermilion on the sega Megadrive

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This was fun :)

It seems obviously a little stuck together with duct tape and lacking polish, but the variety of enemies is nice, they way they're introduced through the scenery is really nice.

Constructive (hopefully) feedback, as a shmup fan (but I still suck at them so take w/ a grain of salt):

  • Keyboard controls don't feel good - typically anything other than precise digital control (e.g. introducing friction/inertia) is a cadinal sin (apart from MAYBE in Risk System... maybe)
  • Audio levels aren't balanced, Stage 2 boss music hit me like a truck
  • More telegraphing, VFX, polish in general for the columns that appear in the tunnels would be great - for a while I thought they just instantly popped in before I realised they do "appear" through scaling(?). Have dust kicked up from them or something? ZeroRanger does this nicely in Stage 2 with horizontal blocks, for reference
  • Quite a few times I didn't realise I'd destroyed an enemy, as I didn't notice the subtle darken right away. Some tasteful VFX would do well here, and maybe something different with the sprite? E.g. have "airship" enemies get their balloon popped instead of the "belly-up" animation
  • Some VFX, animation, in general some feeling of "impact" when heavier ground cannons fire their shots - muzzle flash/smoke VFX, or the enemies recoiling, or all of the above?
  • Enemy missiles following me looked weird when their rotation didn't change once I moved behind them

thanks for the constructive criticism my friend really useful

my main focus right now is on my other game pixel crisis which has turned out to be much more popular but at some point, I will get round to implementing all these changes.

yeah I know the keyboard controls are a little loose I controlled with the mouse and touch screen when I was making it I only included the keyboard controls because one of my friends said he prefered keyboard

the VFX stuff all sounds easy enough to do