Alien Attack

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

04-07-2020, 22:51

Updated the version on https://homebrew.file-hunter.com/index.php?id=alienattack as well :)

By hamlet

Scribe (4106)

04-07-2020, 23:22

I'm so impressed by the music! Very nice!

By Gloriou

Master (204)

04-07-2020, 23:24

Excellent!
Thanks for the Work, Nice game & Great music btw

By ray2day

Paladin (743)

05-07-2020, 09:30

Wow! Amazing!

By Briqunullus

Hero (665)

05-07-2020, 11:46

Looking so good! Love it!

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

05-07-2020, 12:02

These are good times for SHMUP lovers like me!
We've got Freedom Fighter for MSXDev'20 and AlienAttack for MSXDev'21!

By Uninteresting

Champion (352)

05-07-2020, 13:15

@tfh Would Subcommander then be sink'em-down? And santiontanon has their project still underway (or at least was on June 12th going by the post on the asm optimizer thread)...

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

05-07-2020, 13:47

Uninteresting wrote:

@tfh Would Subcommander then be sink'em-down? And santiontanon has their project still underway (or at least was on June 12th going by the post on the asm optimizer thread)...

LOL
And indeed I hope/expect some more releases for MSXDev'20 before the deadline end of this month...

By defdanny

Scribe (390)

06-07-2020, 07:38

Hello tfh and all others,
thank you all for the positive feedback!
Yes, Freedom Fighter is a very strong "competitor", and technically it is miles ahead from our game. And it seems that it is nearly finished. But the more (MSX games), the better! Surely, MSXDev'21 would be a nice goal for "Alien Attack".

By mzoran

Master (155)

06-07-2020, 09:17

This game really is a big project and the results show. Hopefully it will bring more people to use homebrew and MSXdev sections on filehunter site.
@Uninteresting How about adding some guns to the Jaasta? If Paula pulls a gun at some point not beeing happy with the gift? Then your gem could also be classified as shmup

By JGM

Master (140)

06-07-2020, 10:49

Real beautiful shooter, pretty hard to.

Great job so far!

By Parn

Paladin (837)

06-07-2020, 13:20

Very nice graphics and music, congrats on the effort. I honestly found a little weird that it has two title screens and one of them has Doctor Who music, but it's a good excuse to showcase more music and graphics, of course.

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

06-07-2020, 14:56

The Dr Who tune kicks ass...

By edoz

Prophet (2482)

06-07-2020, 15:17

Very nice game!! Good work!

By defdanny

Scribe (390)

06-07-2020, 15:36

@Parn: Thank you! you nailed it twice.
of course it is the first part of the Dr. Who Theme, I hope we do not get into copyright trouble.
Therefore, we created a second intro to be backed up.

By valkyre

Hero (661)

06-07-2020, 20:59

Looking really good.

By AnsiStar

Master (141)

08-07-2020, 10:36

What about a cartridge version?

By defdanny

Scribe (390)

08-07-2020, 22:23

HI AnsiStar,
thank you for the wink. Yes sure, if the result is worth it, the repro factory could be an option!

By hamlet

Scribe (4106)

08-07-2020, 22:45

Marcos has published a new video with a lot of improvements:

Initial spacecraft speed increased
Super "diagonal three bullet" weapon added
Super "Get Out of My Way" weapon added
Fixed the movement of the bullets. Now they move out of the screen smothly before the bullets were disapearing.
Enemies bullets now with SFX
Laser weapon now has three beams
Changed the fire number one pattern
Buildings now need five shots to be destroyed
Moving Power now has a better way to get the weapon.

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

08-07-2020, 23:06

Cool :-) The game is only getting better & better

By lintweaker

Champion (464)

09-07-2020, 13:37

Wow, that really looks amazing!

By Parn

Paladin (837)

09-07-2020, 18:04

I have a couple suggestions for @cbsfox:

Unless the game uses all 32 sprites, 4 sprites could be reserved to mask enemies at the bottom of the screen, so we don't see them overlapping the status bar. You only need to take these 4 sprites out of the sprite rotation.
I don't know how many frames are counted between each scrolling, but I'd suggest to keep this number a power of 2 to make it easier to implement smooth scrolling in the future, if you wish.

By MarMSX

Resident (40)

13-07-2020, 05:18

Great job !!

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

13-07-2020, 20:34

Updated to v1.05:
https://homebrew.file-hunter.com/index.php?id=alienattack

List of improvements:
1 - Two new weapons added
2 - The enemy's shots now have sound
3 - Ground objects now shoot too
4 - Increased the initial speed of the ship
5 - Now it is much easier to shoot POWER to change the color of the weapon. Now the change is sequential, always in the same order.
6 - Various sounds arranged to not disappear among the other sounds.
7 - Some small bugs fixed

By hamlet

Scribe (4106)

13-07-2020, 23:11

Marcos improved the demo with the advices, wishes and ideas he get from the users here. We've added the new Version ALIENMEGA105.ROM to the download section and are looking forward to the final release. :)

By ARTRAG

Enlighted (6935)

14-07-2020, 00:32

Great musics and nice graphics
Greetings!

By giuseve

Paladin (787)

18-07-2020, 20:07

Let me say: music is a piece of art, near to the levl of mr. Hubbard.
I wonder about scc version and a little bit more fluid scroll to have a masterpiece.
Great work

By smart duck

Master (156)

25-07-2020, 15:55

Great music! I enjoyed the videos.

By defdanny

Scribe (390)

07-08-2020, 18:01

Thank you all for the positive feedback, that really motivates us!
Here is a "sneak preview" of some "Alien Attack" ingame music. I use the fantastic tool "Arkos Tracker 2" and experiment with different techniques of sound generation.
And yes, these are not all my creations, I just ported them for the PSG. They will be all credited in the game and in the song files itself when finished.

LITTLE MUSICAL QUIZ:
The first person that posts all musical references (Title and composer/artist) here in this thread will win a copy of the final game "Alien Attack" (in case it will be finished next year AND is worth being released on cartridge... :-))

By Manuel

Ascended (19468)

07-08-2020, 23:15

I think I recognize the 2nd tune from an old Synthesiser Greatest cd or so.... But I can't remember the title at the moment, darn.

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

07-08-2020, 23:22

It sounds like Jean Michelle Jarre... Oxygene (4 or 7 ??)

By defdanny

Scribe (390)

08-08-2020, 17:37

Hi Manuel and tfh,
I am sorry to have double-posted the message.
you will find the solution of my little quizzie in this thread here
the 2nd tune is "Magic Fly" from "Space".
Here is the original

By Manuel

Ascended (19468)

08-08-2020, 22:00

I knew it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkCAtFQ6MV8 (the cover on Synthesizer Greatest IV).

By defdanny

Scribe (390)

08-08-2020, 22:46

manuel: TOP! nice memories, ehh? well, thats 0,5 points for you! ;-)

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

26-01-2021, 20:55

A new version has been released with an end-level boss: https://homebrew.file-hunter.com/index.php?id=alienattack

By defdanny

Scribe (390)

28-01-2021, 11:01

@tfh: Thanks for updating to the latest preview release!
New features in this version ( Fully playable Level 1 )
- initial speed of player is faster
- ground obstacles that can be destroyed
- new weapon upgrade system: the weapons triple-shot and laser can be upgraded to stronger versions (by collecting the same power-up)
- Boss fight - can you beat him?

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

28-01-2021, 11:51

defdanny wrote:

@tfh: Thanks for updating to the latest preview release!
New features in this version ( Fully playable Level 1 )
- initial speed of player is faster
- ground obstacles that can be destroyed
- new weapon upgrade system: the weapons triple-shot and laser can be upgraded to stronger versions (by collecting the same power-up)
- Boss fight - can you beat him?

No, it's the other way around. Thank you guys for working on this game! I (& the rest of the MSX community) are just thankfull that people like you are keeping the MSX hobby alive and supplying us with new games to play (and SHMUP's are one of my favorite).

By JGM

Master (140)

29-01-2021, 10:33

This is a really cool game with great music! Nice and thanks tfh for playing it the easy way

By defdanny

Scribe (390)

16-02-2021, 21:22

Marcos and me were working hard on "Alien Attack" for the last weeks.
We did a lot of game-balancing, graphic and sound polishing.

Play it online on THE-FILE-HUNTER.COM
OR find the ROM of this promo-release in the download section (Version ALIENMEGA_LEVEL1B).

Some background on the story for Level 1 (to create the proper atmosphere, always very important for a shmup! LOL! )
Despite the game title "Alien Attack" and the obvious theme of an Alien invasion, level 1 takes place on planet Earth, were the player has to fight his way through human enemies. His first mission is to find the source of mutating plants is, that is spreading in the forests of South-America. There are reports of trees, that transform into big, sick-red, fleshy things, just like cocoons. During his scouting mission, the player is attacked by the military forces of the neighbor country, unexpectedly...

New Features of this version "L1B":
- Fully playable Level 1
- new enemy waves and improved enemy movements
- ground obstacles that can be destroyed, they also can shoot back
- new weapon upgrade system: the weapons triple-shot, Ice shot and laser shot can be upgraded (two times) to stronger versions by collecting the same power-up again.
- some game balancing
- graphic and sound improvements
- smoother gameplay

HAVE FUN!

By JohnHassink

Ambassador (5672)

17-02-2021, 12:35

The general look, feel and sound is very pleasant.
Difficulty curve seems very well balanced (from what I've seen up to now).
I love the way the different weapons evolve with upgrades.
The little animals down on the ground made me remind "Raiden".
This is going to be quite great. Thanks for sharing.

By valkyre

Hero (661)

17-02-2021, 19:05

Really nice game. How many levels are planned?

By defdanny

Scribe (390)

18-02-2021, 20:07

Hi valkyre, we concepted 5-6 levels, and level 2 is nearly finished.
But to be honest, time is running faster than we thought and we aim to Finish the game for MSXDev in August.
So to keep our self-proclaimed quality standards and deliver a good game, it might be only 3-4 in the end...

By valkyre

Hero (661)

21-02-2021, 22:18

This will set the msx dev bar very high!

By defdanny

Scribe (390)

09-05-2021, 01:11

Hi all, I recorded some of the game music (and others) made with Arkos Tracker 2 and put them on YouTube:
Listen to it here!

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