Yay for explosions. The explosions are based off Gunstar Heroes, but are custom (minus the palette). I've also have made loads of explosion patterns to make the game more boom worthy.
You have indeed reached the level of master game designer. Once you realize this universal truth, you are set for success. I congratulate you, padawan poobical.
For the initial frame could you make the explosions use Additive Blending, or an ink effect that 'merges' the white bits together? After that flip it back to whatever ink effect you're using there. That would look snazzy
Very nice explosions, I've got Gunstar Heroes for Virtual Console on the Wii and they seem pretty similar. But I preferred the old player sprite in the logo for the project. Comment edited by Jon C-B on 7/21/2009
Nice! Graphics are looking a lot like Megaman Zero(Which I think this game could end up taking a lot after. It had round explosions too btw) Very cool.
I used to play the original Gunstar Heroes and it was a fantastic game. This project of yours is beginning to look alot like it, and if it plays anything like it, then you've got yourself a winning formula there.
Nice pixelwork btw. They look professional or quite close to it at if not. Very nice to my eyes at least.
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