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The ships of R-Type. As girls. May contain nudity. Sometimes I don't want to understand Japanese people.

shooting shots

Hmm. I was mostly thinking of the wasps being a Robotron-style game, but some idle playing of Kenta Cho's Gunroar (mac port here) is making me wonder if they'd work in a scrolling environment after all. Rik had sorta suggested a vertically-scrolling game when I had the wasps orienting to their direction of motion, then turned it off because it looked "too real" to me.

I'd played Gunroar a while back with keyboard and thought it was cute, but two sticks really changes the game into something else - it goes from something a little awkward and pretty methodical into a wild dive forwards into the unknown. ( Gunroar commentary )

So thinking of this is kinda pushing me towards scrolling rather than a free-roaming arena. We'll see what develops. I still need to introduce bullets and enemies and collisions, anyway, before it really becomes more than a toy. There's so few games that fire via a second stick rather than a button, and the vast majority of them follow Robotron's lead of throwing you in an arena, resulting in strategies of circling enemies - do I need to add to that, when I can maybe throw something different into the mix?

Of course, I could have some scrolly levels and some arena levels, too.

buzz.

(Am I starting NaGaWriMo here?)