** SEGA GENESIS E.B.H update ** Added since last update : Woah .. progress this week is wild !! Blitted Starfield ( makes the most of one layer by compositing stars over each other for added parallax ) . Enemy explosions - debris and particles to come yet. New spread shot firepower and 2 levels of both firepower concentrated and spread - this will be upgraded a lot yet . With further types and animations added. New enemies and new Battleships enter the scenes, the new battle ships are spawn 32 bullets in 4 pulses ( 128 bullets each ) .. so bullet counts a nice and heavy in those scenes. Music added !! SFX to come, using XGM2 driver here for a 1.6% cpu load - thats about my budget for it too in this game haha - every cycle counts when we climb to 350 objects onscreen. Huge thanks to @Luke86McQueen for the amazing OST you are listening too now . @GabrielPyron for the player ship frames, @Carsten1349 artwork for Battleship and Red enemy - I've also done a bit of the art myself which has been a nice change from endless coding. Early days but its shaping up . It seems 3 shooters on the go (Parodius , Lufthoheit , EBH ) might be the right number !! #SGDK #SegaGenesis #SegaMegadrive

** EBH Genesis Bullet Hell - day 3 ** Don't worry this is the last update for atleast a week , you've seen to many sprials I know haha . Added Player attach shots, a narrow range and wide range attack for load testing. Added Basic enemies to test the collision system out . Collsions are working and the spatial grid collision systems are keeping load under control. Used some placeholder artwork - just to make it a litte better to look at. This will improve. Found a lot of optimisations to Still maintain 60 FPS even with adding a lot of extra logic , but its close to frame budget without much buffer. Great thing is these optimisations will be back ported to Lufthoheit also ( my horizontal heavy sprite action shmup ) . Sprite count is top left , and peaking above 330 sprites at times. LN metric is out of 262 ( NTSC scanlines per frame ) , you can see how close to the wire this is getting . This is a rock 60 fps here but only just haha . Music is coming , announcement on that soon . Not cohesive gameplay yet .. its a load test for the engine. #SGDK #SegaGenesis #SegaMegadrive