F. Ma (マ・フェイ)

This is my final project of the year I worked on as far as a new/ remixed game goes: Guwange: OMEN. It can work for both the N64 and Vita, and it also works on the original board too as originally this started out as a rom hack I made earlier in the year. I am demoing this on the @analogue 3D in enhanced mode. The game is based around dodging fields of bullets as opposed to cancelling bullets and eliminating threats quickly, and encourages you to leave as many bullets on the field as possible. The cancellation mechanic is changed to be a local radius of an enemy instead of all frozen ones, so killing enemies does not result necessarily in all bullets being cancelled. Having the skull meter up all the way allows you to perform grazing, and also it activates OMEN X2 mode where you get double the amount of gold you would normally get while grazing. The version also introduces a hitbox on the player so you can maneuver through fields of bullets easier, and there is intentional slowdown in larger fields of bullets. All 3 game modes and rules are available, and in the Vita version, it shows you all the timers, stage map, boss health, etc. as gadgets on the side of the screen. The N64 version can do YOKO 240P and 480i modes as well as TATE modes. The N64 and Vita version saves scores separately across all 3 modes so you can track your progress. You also get access to the original test menu as well. A lot of this port is based on the months of work that went into Batrider: Chase! The backends and engine are the same, just the program is different. I actually enjoyed putting together Batrider: Chase! and OMEN. I am not so much into just porting the game and making it work accurately as opposed to taking a game and making a better experience that I think is good from a game design perspective. I would say this is more work than making a game work accurately in it's original form because you have to ensure balance across the stages, making sure the rules are fair and it's fun, so it forces you to play things a lot more from the player's perspective. I am targeting to release OMEN soon, along with my Analogue Pocket Core which will run the original rom hack version I made earlier in the year. Now that both Chase! and OMEN are gold, with manuals and such produced as well, I will move onto another project that is FPGA based that is brewing.... #CoinOpCollection #CoinOpGameStudio #Guwange #Cave