Have you played Atari today? ...not like this!
This is The Great Space Adventure. It’s a game heavily inspired by Atari games, and it shows.
You pilot a transforming robot called the Walking Orbital Laser Flyer, or WOLF, and you must save the twelve stars from the evil Big Floating Head. Shoot anything green, and especially shoot dragons, energy cores, and any enemy fire that comes up. Will you be victorious, or will you explode?
If this is a love letter to Atari, you don’t want to see their hate mail.
Beware the front-facing DemoBots. They approach the summer home slowly, hoping to demolish it. It's nothing personal; it's just their job.
...but they didn't inform the Robot Maid. Demolition is messy business, and she can't let the house get messy.
I felt like I needed to punch up these level intros.
The silhouette should indicate what kind of level you're getting into. I've yet to implement the Top-Down or Mode 7 levels, so I've only got a silhouette for the main levels.
Here. For reference.
For this one picture, they're either getting PS4'd, or they get faces.
Despite all this work on the top-down segments, I'm not vibing with 'em.
...might as well send this into Bonus Stage purgatory, and make an additional platform stage.
Now, if I have enough motivation for Mode 7 stages, though...
If my plan for Sega CD-styled cinematics doesn't work out, Plan B would be the GBA-style cinematics.
If anything, they make decent filler.
This background full of conveyor belts might make it a bit more factory-like, but it's still ominous.
So, I'm working on the top-down sections. There are three of these things planned for this game.
The DemoBots have to be a little shorter for this perspective, and they're mostly headed downwards. So, hopefully, I won't have to draw so many GFX.
...so much for that zany scheme.
Let's see if I can do something else.
What kind of bad guys do you see at a prosthetics factory?
These Leg Gunners are part of the security system.
I could have a part where the factory builds robots for you to beat up, but they're gonna be humanoids. They'd probably be like skinless T-800s.
I need to know where to draw the line on this level.
It's supposed to be a prosthetics factory of The Future. It could use a lot more Factory, though.
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