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M7A- Mach 7 Arena
3 years ago

Well... I'm surprised...


Years ago, while making Dragonian, I made this little game. Mostly, it was an experiment with making a game with polygons. I made my own model-making software, and it worked. I figured out how to rotate models from specific points. Also, this was made as an experiment in case I wanted to do a game featuring the M7 tanks.

Anyway, I replayed this thing, and I'm surprised.

If you can get past the controls, it's aged pretty well as an arcade game. If I were to do this game today, I'd make it a lot better in presentation, and make it impossible to take damage when respawning, but that's about it. I hadn't played Splatoon 2 before making this, but some ideas seem to resemble each other.

...anyway, just bringing this up because I was bored enough to play it.

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I'm feeling a bit more off than usual today.

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...also, I was watching Wonder Woman at the time. Is she too much?

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Meanwhile, another part of me is saying, "Wait, you can still use these for a more proper Seven Force-styled boss fight later on!"

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