#jetlancer

My Six Fanarts challenge had to be in pixel art and a tribute to the spaceships of those shoot'em ups that have given me so many good moments in front of the screen since I was a child until today with more recent titles like Devil Engine, Pawarumi and Jet Lancer. I add three more ships as an extra. Darius and Ikaruga could not miss the appointment. And Sine Mora! I played it again this week and love their art and environments.

ooh you want to play jet lancer ooh you want your life to be changed by like 15 pixels

And now, another episode of "something interesting published by Armor Games caught my eye and I have nothing better to write about today anyway." Today's interesting title is Jet Lancer, a 2D aerial combat shooter with a movement system that looks utterly fabulous. Now, I hadn't heard of this game before because there are a bazillion games out there and only so many hours in the day to find and follow every promising project, so I'm going off of the below video and one press release. What Jet Lancer looks like is a 2D shooter where your plane has momentum but can be quickly redirected in a pinch. It also looks to have a story with conversations reminiscent of the Game Boy Advance Fire Emblem titles. Jet Lancer's art style is hyper-colorful, its trailer music is great, and both the Steam page screenshots and press release highlight plane upgrades/customization ("28 different guns, payloads, and flight components"). What's most interesting to me, however, is the mention of accessibility options. The Steam page claims that Jet Lancer includes "anti-fatigue control toggles, adjustable dodge windows, an invincibility option, and the ability to disable screenshake and screen flashing." I don't have the slightest clue what an anti-fatigue control toggle is. It sounds like you might have to hold a button to accelerate or something, which would mean that this feature turns that into a toggle. I'm 100% guessing. Disabling screenshake is a big one for me, personally, and games that provide options to minimize or eliminate screen flashing (or avoid it altogether) are virtually nonexistent outside of Nintendo's first-party games. And even that's only true of their games that released after-ish that banned Pokemon episode with the flashing lights illustrated the potential hazard of excessive flashing. I honestly can't recall a single other game that launched with the option to disable screen flashing. It's always good to see devs considering the health of the people who might be playing. Jet Lancer will release on May 12th on PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch (the latter of which doesn't seem to have a store page to link to yet). Read the full article