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    Steam Super Captain 3D . A Super Hero shoot em up!

    Hello everyone! We just released our new game on Steam and we would like showing it to you! Super Captain 3D is a shmup where you are a Super Hero defending Earth! The gameplay gravitates towards more of a classic feel like Space Invaders rather than being too bullet hell based. Theres...
  2. zielok

    Cannon ship

    Hi, I almost complete my new game for iOS and Android devices This game will be available 11.17.2018
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    Cloud Cover: A simple shmup: Play it now!

    I had the weekend off, and I chose to use it the only way I know how and that's make a quick game. At first it started as simple art, because I wanted to make art. Then it turned into a simple game jam sort of thing. This project helps me get better at art. WHAT IS IT: Cloud Cover is a simple...
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    Demo Skies Of Chaos - DEMO LIVE!

    -UPDATE- Our Skies of Chaos demo is live! If you have an iOS device, you can download with TestFlight below: https://testflight.apple.com/join/l31tKFJF Android version will be coming in the near future (when we get a device to test on!) :p We're also working on a full widescreen/big...
  5. IndianaBones

    Final Force II - Modernised Retro Arcade Shooter

    FINAL FORCE II Introducing - Final Force 2 - A retro-inspired scrolling shoot 'em up dragged in to the modern era. Description A shoot em up inspired by retro shmups such as R-Type, Gradius, ThunderForce III and IV, among many others. Features Fake / Pseudo 3D Engine for unparalleled...
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    Android Phobos Rescue - Bullet Hell/Shmup styles revisited

    Hey there! I have published my game "Phobos Rescue", on which you control a ship in a no-return mission in order to save the colonists of the Mars satellite "Phobos". The thing is, instead of shooting your way through everything like a traditional "top-view starship game", your ship doesn't have...
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    Windows Celestial Raid [Vertical Shmup]

    Celestial Raid is a vertical shmup created using Game Maker. It is a blend of old-school shmup with occasional bullet-hell elements. I plan to have a shmup that is non-linear, that you can buy upgrades and new ships (kinda like Dariusburst Chronicles Saviour). This game is in development and the...
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     Super Captain 3D vs The Pixel Invaders from Dimension 2 (pre-alpha demo.)(Superhero Shmup)

    Hello everyone, we want to show you the new game we are working on! What we would like you to see right now is a short pre-alpha demo (2 stages and 1 boss), we are still open to changing up the mechanics and tweaking stuff, new ideas, etc. The game is a "hero based" side scrolling shoot em up...
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    GML Visual Playing the Full Animation with Just One Button Press

    Hey, I'm new to Game Maker and I'm working on a horizontal shmup. I wanted to implement a shotgun blast animation, but the animation I created will abruptly stop when I let go of the keyboard key I have it assigned to, and the animation will resume when I press it again. I want it so that the...
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    Job Offer - Artist Pixel Artist for scrolling shooter[CLOSED]

    [CLOSED FOR NOW BUT ALWAYS DOWN TO MEET ARTISTS/DEVS IF YOU WANT TO SEND YOUR INFO.] Looking for some retro-ish style art for a small scrolling shooter i'm making similar to snes shoot em ups... This is a fairly small project with basic animations, 3 frames probably and some static...
    • VagrantWhaleGames
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    • Forum: Collaboration
  11. RyanC

    Beta Upside Dash - Retro Arcade Shoot'em Up

    Game Title: Upside Dash. Genre: Retro Arcade / Side Scrolling Shooter. OS: Android 4.4.4+ Version: Open Beta. Company: Level Lords Ltd. Press Kit | Website | Blog | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter Description Upside Dash is a side scrolling shooter with arcade game play and retro graphics. A...
  12. Graeme Hawkins

    Demo ZOE - A Drawn On Film Shmup - Now With Playable Demo! (Ver 0.14.2)

    Hand-drawn bullet-hell! A frenetic shooter combining the run-and-gun mechanics of Metal Slug with the infinite loops and shmup-ing of Resogun, wrapped up with old-fashioned drawn-on-film style animation. Fight your own creator as the artist bears down on you with pen and paintbrush! The latest...
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    Wings Of Bluestar [2D horizontal hand painted Shmup]+Demo

    Hello everyone! Edit: Newest Demo: https://tinyurl.com/y4tsxp6l This is Shinu Real Arts and I'm an indie game developer. Here I present to you my actual and biggest project; Wings Of Bluestar, a 2D horizontal shmup in the style of 90s games on the 32bit consoles and on the Arcade. The game is...
  14. Negastar

    Released MDG: Matrix Defense Gauntlet

    Your ship was ready. The course plotted. It was supposed to be easy... just map the far regions of space. No one knew the course would take you through a hostile galaxy. And now you're being attacked on all sides, with nothing but your Digitized Gunpod Turret System, or DiGTS... to fend off the...
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    GML Visual Child Ojects Changing Because of Parent

    Hey, I'm a beginner to GameMaker and I'm having some difficulty with two of my objects changing their sprite because of their parent object. I have the child objects (the boots) change their sprites depending on the direction the character moves. I have also set the parent object's (ship body)...
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    Need help with flame breath attack (shmup)

    Okay so I currently have my player object shooting a spread shot with the A button and a flame breath attack with the B button. How do I make it so the flame breath only lasts for a few seconds and not the whole time the button is pressed. Also, so that the regular spread shot does not fire at...
    • SpaceDragonForce909
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    • Forum: Programming
  17. Negastar

    Demo Vanguard(android)

    Do not let them pass! Do not be defeated! Vanguard is a top-down space shooter for Android, currently in development. There's two game modes-- Endless, and Main, with currently one level.In Endless Mode, the objective is to survive as long as you can, defending your mobile fortress from...
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    Windows OctorSpace [shooter & level editor] : Modified Larger Explosions

    Nine months ago I made OctorSpace. At the time I considered it done as that was all the time I had. Over the past nine months I've found time to work on it here and there. http://store.steampowered.com/app/705000/OctorSpace/ After astro surfing, you have come across a marching band of octopi...
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    GML Trying to reproduce this MUSHA movement, can you help me?

    I'm trying to reproduce this effect of the movement of the small side "drones" in the MUSHA game. When the main ship moves, the drones have a small delay and then follow the ship. When the ship stops, the drones undergo a kind of bump, going back and forth until they stabilize in their final...
    • DiGamer80
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    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Programming
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    Dungeon Dwellers (very early build)

    Dungeon Dwellers is a game that i have been consistantly interested in creating for years... over 8 years. Ever since i started using gamemaker 7.0 i wanted to make a game like this. I feel i have the necessary skills in the program and knowledge of programming to create such a game. The game...
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