Жанр аркадных скроллеров еще жив?

Жесть Стим скриншоты в описании зумит. Но если нажать, то норм.

 

Жаль ко-оп не онлайн.

 

Кто-нибудь слышал о таком?

 

Шмап от G.rev это интересно (больше игр от людей, которые умеют их делать!), но я бы не отказался от Border Down вместо этой. Тоже пробуют воду, так сказать?

 

@Birm, согласен, ещё Under Defeat HD напрашивается

 

У Strania любопытная система оружий/пауер-апов, но я бы хотел скорее порта Senko no Ronde SP/Duo с качественным онлайном.

 

Вроде неплохая.

Вообще, G.Rev и прочие "коммерческие шмап-разрабы" недалеко от indie/doujin ушли - в штабе у них по несколько человек, максимум - дюжина или две; и чтоб выжить, или работают на аутсорс для других контор или даже не в игровой деятельности (мде, вот так CEO у Milestone и посадили в тюрьму за непонятки с биооружием).

А тут старое интервью про Странию.

http://shmuplations.com/strania/

Maruyama: At first it was just to make the next thing after Under Defeat. The underlying idea I had was to see if the two of us could make an HD game. This time the development expenses would be shooting up, and compared with our last game we’d spend 4 or 5 times as much. So it was like, the two of us made Under Defeat… how far can we take our skills? That spirit of adventure and experimenting was a fundamental part of it.

Maruyama: In the end it really took too much time to do it this way. The two of us just couldn’t get all the work done. Especially the graphics, that turned out to be nearly impossible with two people. Of course, if we had cut corners we could probably have gotten it done, but since we wanted to create something with the attention to detail and quality presentation of Under Defeat, we had to abandon the two-man development idea. It caused me to rethink things for the company, too. For our first original, HD game development, it was too challenging to do it the old way.

Maruyama: Takeda, who was one of the original planners, said that Jaleco’s robot STG Cybattler, where you wield a sword, was an influence. The gameplay is different, but I think that cool feeling of controlling a robot and wielding a sword was definitely something we were thinking of. As for the gameplay and presentation, rather than the arcade we were more influenced by console games–especially games like Spriggan Mk II and Musha Aleste. To some degree we were aiming for the straightforward progression that games of that era had.

Shmuplations: In the credits I saw the name of Hiroshi Iuchi, famous for Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga. Fans have been wondering, what parts of the game did he work on?

Maruyama: Graphics, primarily the backgrounds. He wasn’t a part of the game system or story, but since we were friends from before, he kindly joined as a graphic designer.


Shmuplations: Right, G.rev worked together with Iuchi on Gradius V. Changing the subject, the music for Strania was done by Keishi Yonao. Please tell us how you chose him.

Maruyama: When we started the Strania project and it came time to decide on who to choose for a composer, the X68000 and PC Engine immediately came to mind, and so naturally Keishi Yonao’s name came up too.

There were other game composer luminaries I also considered, and I was having trouble picking one until I came across a video on youtube of Yonao playing the Korg DS-10. As soon as I heard that I asked Shinji Hosoe for Yonao’s contact information. I requested that he compose the music for Strania, to which he readily agreed.

 

Спойлер: бэкап, потом удалю

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@Hekk, а что это за платы в спойлере?

 

Гуванг, Ибара.

 

Я имею в виду, что это вообще?

Погуглил, написано "Platform(s) Arcade, PlayStation 2". Выходит, это аркадная плата? Какая-то маленькая.

 

Да, она самая.
Cave'овские SH3 платы были сравнительно маленькие. Но они и появились довольно поздно.

 

Анонсировали шмаперское мероприятие - Transition 2015

 

@Дарк Шнайдер, Ох ничего себе. Да Degica прямо герои шмаперского труда. Респект.

 

Интервью с G.Rev

 

Про Сеньку неопределённо как-то. Типа планы на международный релиз, но про PC ничего не ответил. Надеюсь, что всё-таки довезут до стима. А покамест остаётся гонять в аналогичный по механике Gunhound, который, в принципе, всем хорош, но, к сожалению, не имеет интернет-мультиплеера.