Inviyya - OCS Shoot Em Up
 

Since this is becoming more and more a real game, I wanted to leave my dev thread in the factory forum, and present this here...

Inviyya is an R-Type-inspired shmup for vanilla OCS 512K+512kslow Amigas.

http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...1&d=1506865566

http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...1&d=1506865557

Stats:
1 player (maybe second player will be able to play the satellite sidekick, not sure yet), SFX and Music, partially 3-layer-parallax and some transparency effects.

Since it seems at the moment that I will get a table to present this game in Neuss at the Amiga32 in the end of October, I will release a playable demo version of the first level at that time.

Greets,
Michael

Looking good Steril! Look forward to play that demo too!

I like the modern look of the graphics.

Looking forward to the demo :D

Good work :)

Hey Steril, check your PMs

Nice work!

This looks really promising. Exciting news! Looking forward to play/see the demo...

I had a look at the videos on you tube and have to say it is very promising. Will probably match quality commercial titles.

Is it running at 50fps?

Good job dude!
If I may suggest something from the visual side, I think your graphics could use some shading. Maybe work on dithering between color changes and stuff, things like that. I think it looks a bit "rough" as it is because of the colors changing suddenly, in "bands". Maybe it's a palette thing too. Dunno, just minor nitpick I hope you take into consideration when you are done coding and focus on how it all looks together!

Keep up the great work, I am looking forward to play your game, R-Type being one of my favorite game series ever.

@everybody: thanks a lot... :)

@Whitebird: Yes, 50 fps. Everything. On a real machine with a CRT connected it looks smooth as butter... :)

@Akira: Well, I guess that comes down to graphical style preferences then. ;) I am not a big fan of dithering, and usually try only using it sparingly.
Regarding the palette, it's only 7 colours for the foreground, since this is running in dual playfield mode. I think I am already making most out of it, but you are off course welcome to come up with something better with only using those few colours... ;)

Greets,
Michael

:bowdown

Love the look of the graphics.. Well done

The colours have some kind of Amstrad CPC tinge.

Hopefully the game will only inherit the style from R-Type, not the technical performance as R-Type even in its second edition is far from excellence when it comes to smooth scrolling... (note the dependency between scrolling's speed and the amount of displayed sprites.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W92G9F49l_E

That's one of the reasons I went for dual playfield.

(mind, that I am still in heavy debugging phase, so there are some graphics bugs to see in that video. Plus that's taken from FS_UAE in debugging mode, so that's looking much more stuttery than on a real machine.)

(yes, I know, they look like flying penisses... :D )

Only on the Amiga!

Also there were at least 4 other R-Type games after that :D

Maybe because the developers considered tha Amiga a "CPU-centered" computer as any other computers and completely forgot it has custom chips...

I actually like the non-dithered look.

Dithering made sense in 1990, with our fuzzy 14" CRT's :D.
Now, with razor-sharp 24" LCD screens not so much....

http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...1&d=1507637566

Changed the palette a bit, added Walker and Turret Enemies...