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.
When I was young and ambitious, I tried making a game called XSF Force. One element you might find (but not implemented) is this guy's talking head and body.
He's a reporter named Mr. Snyder.
I could reuse these GFX, if I clean 'em up a bit.
If there's going to be a save feature in my game, I might as well give the players their own kind of Level Select so they can replay it any way they want.
I know I should work on that boss, but still...
That boss is now done, and implemented.
I can safely say I've completed half of the main game now, even though it's just the first three levels and the second-to-last.
Time to do something else.
Looking through some old files again. Apparently, I've been making games since 2006, at least. My high school days.
My pixel art sucked back then, but I kept at it, and didn't post games until 2010.
...and yes, that IS Slasher Kabuki.
Welcome to Space.
...not much going on here, is there?
Now going through the animation process. This could take a while.
It's kind of a wonder how Treasure managed to pull a front-facing boss moving sideways at least twice.
One of the bonus stages will be a top-down stage where you try to stop the Demolition robots from smashing the summer home.
...but I don't know whether or not failing a bonus stage should "count". I think the worst bonus stages in gaming are mandatory.
Why a chrome sphere for this logo? Because I wanted to.
What happens in the "O" usually changes from game to game. Cybosaurs had Sinistar, Shiro Ninja had 
, Shiro Ninja Mayhem had Pirate Jack, Dragonian had the cast of Staff of Laria, and so on.
I decided that the fourth button will be used for switching between using weapons, and not using them. Why? Because it works with the mouse's scroll wheel.
Also, you've got an indicator at the top-left if you've got the gun active or not.
Animation testing, again.
I map animations to keyboard buttons, then figure out the AI. Character movement is tied to the animations before adding the AI.
...and that's why I think a fighting-game mode can be programmed in this game.
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