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[Experimenting Game] RGB ~Draw The Bullets~

The exams is coming up and I probably have no time to work on this anymore, so here it is! It only consists of one stage though :( With 4 different difficulties to choose. Any comments are appreciated :)

Gameplay video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyWpE3fVW-U


Download
http://www.mediafire.com/?lpddfnc1aki


CONTROL
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Mouse movement - Move you character
Left Click - Draw
Right Click - Change Color
Spacebar/Shift - Hold to enter MIX mode/ Release to enter PAINT mode.


How To Paint
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- Once any of your color meter is filled (Either it says 100% or you can see from the meters on the right hud), you can draw with that color. Right click to switch to that color, you can tell which color you're using from the color of your

- Press left button and hold to start drawing. You have to move your mouse cursor out of , come back to , and release left button while the cursor is inside . While you're drawing, the color meter will keep on decreasing. And if you can't make it back to before the meter runs out, your drawing will fail.

- Once you move your mouse around during drawing, you'll see the marker. If there are too few markers when your drawing cover a pretty large area, your drawing will fail.

- A successful drawing will result in any bullets inside the drawing area will be painted. Painted bullets act differently depending on the color effect, which are as the following :
Red : Reflect the bullets back
Green : Turn bullets into Power Star
Blue : Slow down the bullets

- If you're in MIX mode, you can paint the painted bullets with different color to mix color and create new color effect. This will cost 50 powers x Effect Level

Effect Level 1 (Cost : 50)
Red + Green -> Yellow : Napalm Ball
Green + Blue -> Aqua : Hyper Power Star
Red + Blue -> Purple : Flying Turret

Effect Level 2 (Cost : 100)
Red + Green + Blue -> White : Alpha Blaster

- If you're in PAINT mode, painting the painted bullets will replace the current effect with a new one.


Power
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- Power points affect the following stats
- Your painted bullets deal more damage.
- Your color meter decrease slower when drawing.

ETC
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- Finish the boss with Effect Level 1 and above will turn all the bullets on the screen into Bonus Star.
- If you paint successfully, you'll become invincible for about 5 frames
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The game is for prototype session over shmup-dev.com. Please tell me what you think. Any comments are appreciate since I really want to improve this :) Personally I wanna try using this system with arena shmup (think Geo War) but I want to see how it works with danmaku vertical shmup first.

[FULL GAME]U.S.G. ~A New Beginning ~

Due to the upcoming of the new version, I'd have to remove the game link for now. :)

Fewer Mechanics, Better Game (Gamasutra Article)

This is very true and it's what I'm trying to do ...but it's darn difficult to follow. It's hard to make your game original, simple and has deep gameplay at the same time. I'm falling in too over complicated game myself, actually*sigh*

But hey, that's the fun part in game design , right? ::)

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@RoseSkye
lol I thought it would be fun if the enemies were really smilies. That would make an interesting game haha. There will be more types of enemies in the later stages, though. :)

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@brandonabley
I have AIM, but I rarely online on that. I usually online on MSN. I'll send the detail to you via PM, is that ok? XD

@Enker
I salute you too, for finish the game XD And yeah, the new game+ is basically what brandonabley answered. You can try setting your status for your own challenge too :)

@tsimehC
I'm glad that the lag didn't turn you off. That's what I'm afraid the most, since RGSS is pretty slow, compare to other game engine :( Please come back with what you think about the game and the plot once you finish it!

@WIP
Cool. I'll upload the game when I'm at my college where the internet speed is much faster then :D

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@brandonabley
Thank you! For those musics that don't come from video game or anime OST, I took them from flashkit website where they offer you free loop music. And I can't say thank you enough when you said you could write better music for me XD

@tsimehC & Archeia_Nessiah
Don't forget to come back with your feedback! It's my first attempt to shmup so I still could use some comments :)

@WIP
Is there a limited to the size of the file that you can upload?

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@WIP
Thank you for your feedback and for fixing the link! Sorry about the voice volume, but as I replied Euphorian in the above post, I didn't really have time to normalize all the sound to adjust the volume to be all at the same level. I'll make sure to take care of this in my next game. Gah, should have implemented the voice acting volume control in the option menu :/ I hope you can finish the game sometime! If you find the game difficult, griding more levels should make it easier for those who think they're not good at bullet hell shmup. And if you're up to a challenge, you can adjust your status to fit your challenge anytime :)

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@Euphorian
I admit about the game script part. English is not my first language and I cant say that writing in English is my strongest point either. However, that's the best I could do within two months ^ ^;; I wish I had more time for writing and proof reading the game script. Thank you very much for your comment and I will make sure that I will improve in this department of my next game. :)

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Yes, all the artworks are original. They're done by Piti :)

@loki
Thanks! I'll modify the first post then.
EDIT : It doesn't seems to work = =; I'll leave it just like this then lol. Anyway, I just noticed that you use the userbar.... >w< That made my day!

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@Euphorian
Thank for your comment. I'm glad you like the game ^ ^.

Are the other sound effect are quiter than the bgm as well? I was going to normalize all the sound in the game to have the same level of volume but I didn't have time. (This game was for RMXP contest and done in two months) And I'm too busy on the other game to update this one lol. I hope adjusting the bgm and se volume in option would help solve that problem :S

Did you install the font that come with the game? Without it, you won't see your score, lives , levels and your exp. You'll really need to see all those parameters in order to upgrade your ship.

Many complain about the amount of dialog too. My bad. I should have implemented the skip the cutscene option. But I just want people to really read the story before they move on in the story. If you repeat the same stage, you will have an option to skip the cutscene.

Happy gaming!