JKKDARK
April 21st, 2008, 20:22
New information was added in the HUCAST website (http://www.hucast.net/blog/index.html), talking about the gameplay of their upcoming homebrew commercial game for Dreamcast.
Hello and welcome to the DUX news blog.
I am René Hellwig and as you may already have heard I'm currently developing a 2D shooter for the Sega Dreamcast to be released this year on a physical disc.
I choosed the horizontal memorize type of shooting as personal preference and because the Dreamcast could easily need more of them. Border Down and Last Hope is just not enough. Speaking about Last Hope, you may know that I'm actually part of the NG:DEV.TEAM and that our next Neogeo shooting game is still in progress, so it will hopefully get an relase next year.
So let's take a look at DUX.
http://www.hucast.net/blog/s01.png
http://www.hucast.net/blog/s02.png
http://www.hucast.net/blog/s03.png
These screens showing an early development status of roughly 65%.
As shown DUX will completely consist out of CGI to use the advantages of Dreamcasts 2D capabilities. So the game features high-resolution to allow some super smooth graphics in 60fps. Also notices, the game is still in development but the screens present the games overal look pretty well. The final results will look much better.
As the screens also hopefully show, this is going to be memorizing shooting. So it will be necessarily to memorize some parts of the game here and there, but there's still a focus on action. When you never have heard about memorizing in shooters then you probably never heard of R-Type. Yet DUX won't be just a clone of mentioned classic, but rather a modern and standalone game inspiried by the games within the same subgenre. By saying modern I mean this memorizer will take the advantages of recent shooting games to combine it with an undying gaming concept. Accessibility, highly-visible bullets and a lot of those simultanesly on screen, are one of the advantages - just to name a few of them.
To shoot yourself through the space alien scum you will need following arms. Depending on the games situation you can change the actual wep by picking up the individual item since all of them has strong and weak points.
http://www.hucast.net/blog/hyper.png
Hyperbeam
Maximizes the power of the on-board shots including hyper charge beam. This shot is very helpful to get read of a bunch of enemies at the same time and it also makes more damage on boss enemies.
Potency: Does a lot of damage to boss enemies, and takes many enemies to death on one blast.
Weakness: Slow to load.
http://www.hucast.net/blog/bounce.png
Bouncinglaser
Warps two lasers with bouncing effect onto the environment. This bouncinglaser can be quite powerfull, when it's used right. Especially cannons on the roof and ground will fear this laser. Not so recommend for boss encounters.
Potency: This shot can do a lot of damage to enemies when bouncing along the walls.
Weakness: Doesn't harm boss enemies too much due to the 45° shooting angle.
http://www.hucast.net/blog/xray.png
X-Ray
Fires a strong x-shaped laser onto the screen and has a minor bouncing abillity depending on the active power level. Use the enviroment with this x-ray shot to make this weapon even more dangerously. Maybe the strongest weapon in the game but seldom to find.
Potency: Very powerfull, especially with bouncing abbility active.
Weakness: Relative low shoot frequency and saldom to find.
Additionally to this fire power, you can get upgradable rockets and bombs. All in all this selection of weps in this is pretty straightforward and increases efficiency when used properly.
Next time some enemies will be introduced.
Hello and welcome to the DUX news blog.
I am René Hellwig and as you may already have heard I'm currently developing a 2D shooter for the Sega Dreamcast to be released this year on a physical disc.
I choosed the horizontal memorize type of shooting as personal preference and because the Dreamcast could easily need more of them. Border Down and Last Hope is just not enough. Speaking about Last Hope, you may know that I'm actually part of the NG:DEV.TEAM and that our next Neogeo shooting game is still in progress, so it will hopefully get an relase next year.
So let's take a look at DUX.
http://www.hucast.net/blog/s01.png
http://www.hucast.net/blog/s02.png
http://www.hucast.net/blog/s03.png
These screens showing an early development status of roughly 65%.
As shown DUX will completely consist out of CGI to use the advantages of Dreamcasts 2D capabilities. So the game features high-resolution to allow some super smooth graphics in 60fps. Also notices, the game is still in development but the screens present the games overal look pretty well. The final results will look much better.
As the screens also hopefully show, this is going to be memorizing shooting. So it will be necessarily to memorize some parts of the game here and there, but there's still a focus on action. When you never have heard about memorizing in shooters then you probably never heard of R-Type. Yet DUX won't be just a clone of mentioned classic, but rather a modern and standalone game inspiried by the games within the same subgenre. By saying modern I mean this memorizer will take the advantages of recent shooting games to combine it with an undying gaming concept. Accessibility, highly-visible bullets and a lot of those simultanesly on screen, are one of the advantages - just to name a few of them.
To shoot yourself through the space alien scum you will need following arms. Depending on the games situation you can change the actual wep by picking up the individual item since all of them has strong and weak points.
http://www.hucast.net/blog/hyper.png
Hyperbeam
Maximizes the power of the on-board shots including hyper charge beam. This shot is very helpful to get read of a bunch of enemies at the same time and it also makes more damage on boss enemies.
Potency: Does a lot of damage to boss enemies, and takes many enemies to death on one blast.
Weakness: Slow to load.
http://www.hucast.net/blog/bounce.png
Bouncinglaser
Warps two lasers with bouncing effect onto the environment. This bouncinglaser can be quite powerfull, when it's used right. Especially cannons on the roof and ground will fear this laser. Not so recommend for boss encounters.
Potency: This shot can do a lot of damage to enemies when bouncing along the walls.
Weakness: Doesn't harm boss enemies too much due to the 45° shooting angle.
http://www.hucast.net/blog/xray.png
X-Ray
Fires a strong x-shaped laser onto the screen and has a minor bouncing abillity depending on the active power level. Use the enviroment with this x-ray shot to make this weapon even more dangerously. Maybe the strongest weapon in the game but seldom to find.
Potency: Very powerfull, especially with bouncing abbility active.
Weakness: Relative low shoot frequency and saldom to find.
Additionally to this fire power, you can get upgradable rockets and bombs. All in all this selection of weps in this is pretty straightforward and increases efficiency when used properly.
Next time some enemies will be introduced.