#stellararms

Hi guys! ricolemba is here

Wow it's been a month since the last devlog, so we just released our first iOS game last week ( http://j.mp/playLayerIOS ) and we got featured by Apple right away, that was awesome! and we're currently waiting to finalize our deal with one of our potential publisher for Frontgate Fighters, April has been wonderful so far!

And uhh..how about stellar arms? honestly I haven't touched this game since last month and I feel bad about this but the good news is the pitfall phase is done, and we're moving to 2nd part of the stage. Our current target is to complete the demo before Casual Connect Asia and that will be before May 19.

So, that's already a lengthy intro. move on to our main topic!

Boss Weapon

So, I’ve mentioned this several times on previous devlogs, the main gimmick of the boss in stage 1 is particle weapon, how does that work?

So basically, the weapon is made of a lots of particles, the way particles work in this part is the same with every particle in the game, you can use your sword to cancel it.

Because the weapon is made of particles, it could change its form to several weapon types like throwing knife, dagger, halberd, etc. If we implement this right, I think it would look pretty cool.

But how the gameplay is different than the other action games? it looks like that using a weapon made of projectiles is merely a visual gimmick. The way you fight a boss in Stellar Arms is different than the other action games because of the projectile-cancelling mechanics, in most games, your enemy will use several attack patterns to harm you and you have to see the gap in order to survive from those, but in this game, sometimes you have to create the gap using your sword, you need to decide which part of the weapon you need to destroy If you want to survive from that attack? That pretty much how you fight bosses in Stellar Arms.

Welcome back! ricolemba is here

sorry for the lack of updates from me, I've been really busy working on multiple projects at once, if you follow our fb or twitter you may have known that we're working on a new game called #projecthadoken, our schedule right now is 3 days for #projecthadoken and 3 days for Stellar Arms, I guess that explains a bit why our progress is a bit slow... So, in past few weeks, we made couple of decisions

Simplifying Pitfall Phase

Originally, this phase was supposed to be another boss fight with tetris, I was thinking of a boss battle while player is falling, I thought that would be awesome, but since the amount of content we put in stage 1 is already pretty high, we need to change it. I won't spoil it in details, but I can tell you that it exists in most of platinumgames' games :D

Stage 1 Part 2

Overall we have made around 3 kinds of basic enemies and all of them are already placed in first couple of screens. We discussed a bit about this and I think it's better if we spread out a bit the enemy placement. FYI, there are 3 kinds of enemies in this one screen..

I'm thinking about placing yoyo goey in phase 2 but I'm kinda having mixed feeling about this since regianart (aka Jubi or reijubv), one of Stellar Arms artist want to add more goey. but to put this in realistic side, we need to deliver the demo asap and I think we already have enough enemies.

Pluie

Honestly when I first started prototyping Stellar Arms, there's a gimmick for attack pattern design that I think will make this game unique, I call it "particle weapons". 

hello. a new character revealed :3 this is how i design her, i make lot of variation while getting real time inputs from team.

i'll reveal more in the future but now please have this! ;)

Hello, long time no see here!

 Hipon's done with his thesis, but we're still need some time to resorting things to get the project moving steadily as usual.

Meanwhile, this is what am I doing lately. An amateur-ish world design, I'm not an inspired person for this kind of thing, so, meh :v still prone to be changed later, but here is the general idea:

Polaris is a self sufficient shelter (or rather be prison) used to lock (lot of) people inside without having to kill them. It's floating on ocean surface. I wish I could explain more. More ideas to throw later.

Hope I can finish it soon. Pheww~ But hey, thanks for coming!