Arkagis Revolution - mode 7 like shooter

[Sik]

Nah, just joking about how somebody seriously suggested to ditch a port to move it to SNES :​P (got called out for that)

Also later I'll try to put up a page detailing the consoles. Aside from what I've explained earlier, there's support for the Mega Mouse and Saturn keyboard (though the latter will need a Saturn-to-Mega Drive adapter unless somebody releases a compatible keyboard with the correct plug). Also two controllers can be used together like a twin stick setup (maybe somebody could make an actual twin stick? Smash TV could benefit too :​v)

[retronostalgia]

Uploaded a trailer on the site!
https://www.arkagis.com/

I need to hurry up and tidy up a few things so I can release a demo for download.

Trailer looks *tight*. :-D Looking forward to the demo!

[Sik]

Proud to announce that the game will include voice acting :​O​)
https://twitter.com/arkagis/status/1141093053115043842

Currently working on getting the voices implemented in the cutscenes. And no, it doesn't sound cacophonic as used to happen with some popular games so don't worry about that (the sound driver doesn't have that particular problem). Also thanks to Bitmap Bureau for referring me to the VAs (・ω・)

[Moirai]

I recommend keeping the borders on the left and right mainly black, it looks more plain but also less distracting from the gameplay. The HUD doesnt need any thing in the background but black.

[Black_Tiger]

I like the detailed control panel style HUD. The same pixelart would look great if it could be spared enough shades for a colored metal look, with some roughness/wear added like tiny chips and tarnish here and there. Kinda like the HUD in the Jaguar's version of Raiden (but not necessarily golden).

[Sik]

It's actually a setting:





In fact I had to add it because the more detailed HUD can add to the motion sickness. But if I made the simpler HUD as the only option I'd have people yelling at me about how I'm wasting the hardware's power by not making it fancy :​v

[nihilblack]

I like the detailed one more, but it's great to have options.

[cleeg]

Getting a MegaDrive again ten years ago was the best thing I did. I could never have imagined we'd be playing cool stuff like this. It looks fab.

[Vector]

I meant that with the reduced viewport (there's nothing I can do about sprite overflow and it already tends to pop up every so often as it is right now). But it'd have allowed the walls to have a different color at least. I'm not fond of dropping to 30 FPS when I had already achieved 60 FPS tho…

Ah, fair enough thank you for reading. I just want to see trailer but I have no twitter is it on youtube perhaps Sik?

[nihilblack]

You can find it at the game's website:

https://www.arkagis.com/

[Sik]

Added explanation about how the 3-button and 6-button controllers work here:
https://www.arkagis.com/controls

Keyboard and mouse will come later (I need to tweak some stuff with the mouse first).

Also included information on all the characters in the game:
https://www.arkagis.com/story#characters

[nihilblack]

That control scheme seems nice to me, mostly with the 6-button pad (I'm not a fan of pausing the game to choose a new weapon on action games).

[Sik]

Uploaded a new video of a boss fight if anybody missed it:
https://twitter.com/arkagis/status/1143527865847361536

I'd get the videos on YouTube but I want to stop mixing stuff with my personal account and opening a new Google account is an even bigger pain in the ass than dealing with Twitter from last time I remember (does anybody know if an existing Google account can have multiple YouTube accounts? especially one old enough to have been around during the time GMail was still beta)

EDIT: and before I forget again, yeah, the 6-button controller scheme is the "intended" one :​v

[Zygrunt]

Uploaded a new video of a boss fight if anybody missed it:
https://twitter.com/arkagis/status/1143527865847361536

I'd get the videos on YouTube but I want to stop mixing stuff with my personal account and opening a new Google account is an even bigger pain in the ass than dealing with Twitter from last time I remember (does anybody know if an existing Google account can have multiple YouTube accounts? especially one old enough to have been around during the time GMail was still beta)

EDIT: and before I forget again, yeah, the 6-button controller scheme is the "intended" one :​v

Very nice!

You can have multiple channels on your youtube account, each one will have its own "brand" account and they will be treated as separated accounts for the viewers (but all alerts and messages will probably go to the same gmail account).

[Sik]

> 500 error

This "make another YouTube channel in the same account" thing is not working…