Kraut Buster on the neogeo

[Arm]

Most people know me on sega 16 forum for having worked on piersolar and pshd as well as on the remake of vixen 357 and Tanglewood as character designer and cutscene animator/director

2 years ago I handled these tasks for the neogeo game Kraut Buster from ngdev team. It is a tribute to games such as metal slug and contra.

As the game came out recently, I thought I could share with you the intro of kraut buster I directed and created. I created the character design and the handdrawn board and pixel art animatic, then the pixel art was completed by the main game artists.
They have remained faithful to my pixel art animatic mostly in terms of board except my style was more anime especially for the dictator, the girl and some of the characters face/eyes shape /expressions which make them look a bit strange (which wasn't the case originally) . Otherwise pretty detailled rendering and overall good result imo.
As a side note I had used a music from the game Nier Automata to synch to the intro sequence action in my original animatic which is lost here as it's a completely different music.

I also created the ending as well as the character concept and pixel art for the select screen.

This is the opening:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UNOZypqAgZc

This is a playthrough in 2 player mode:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4uUKCWPQNI8

[EPSYLON EAGLE]

Overall I really enjoyed the pixel art style, not as good as Metal Slug, but still of a high standard.
No apparent slowdown in gameplay even with many on-screen elements and huge amount animation.


The music seems totally out of place most of the time.

[Gryson]

Looks awesome.

[Arm]

Looks awesome.

Thanks. I think visually, it is among the very best looking indie games out there.

[Da_Shocker]

How much is this game lol?

[NeoVamp]

How much is this game lol?

900 dollaroos for MVS, 9000 for AES.

[Kamahl]

Pretty kickass intro, and pretty great ingame pixel art with loads of animation. I get shivers just thinking how much the pixel art in this game must have cost, but then I remember it costs 400 gajillion dollars and it doesn't seem so bad anymore.

[Arm]

How much is this game lol?

If I'm not mistaken, it costs 450 euros for the mvs version. But it is sold out for now.

[Cristiano Sword]

It was incredible!

[XGoldenboyX]

Looks great !

[Arm]

Thanks Luis. Glad you like it.
For those interested, here is a better vid of the intro, select screen and gameplay of the 1st stage.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9SazMSaX5mQ

[nitelich]

NG Dev Team sent a newsletter yesterday announcing additional copies of both the AES and MVS versions to help cover their manufacturing costs. I just checked as of this writing and some are still available on their store page. 439 EUR for any version - a bit steep on the MVS side, but AES prices have always been crazy (searching "metal slug aes" on ebay is not for the faint of wallet).

[patmanqc]

That looks great. I love the pixel art style