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Title: Lunacy Star [Remake] Version 0.8 ~ now with 6 stages
Post by: チソウ　タイゼン on October 17, 2013, 04:14:04 AM
Lunacy Indeterminate presents to you a Difficult and Touhou-esque Bullet Hell Game
~ ~ Lunacy Star ~ ~

The SECOND VERSION, this time with LESS HORRIBLENESS

(http://puu.sh/4S08O.jpg) (http://puu.sh/4S0fm.jpg)

UPDATED GRAPHICS and MUSIC and STORY

(http://i.imgur.com/70VI6M4.png) (http://i.imgur.com/cOHPruG.png)

in the demo, featuring THREE WHOLE STAGES FULL OF STAGE AND BOSS

(http://i.imgur.com/bKLE9a6.png) (http://i.imgur.com/SedOctp.png)

totally WACK SCORING based upon BULLET DELETION

(http://i.imgur.com/l89nNvl.png)

with new FEATURES including ALWAYS WATCHING YOUR PERFORMANCE.

(http://i.imgur.com/8dCDFjD.png) (http://i.imgur.com/yqzDR1L.png)

TRY IT, PREFERABLY THE INSTANT YOU FINISH READING THIS VERY SENTENCE


Version 0.8 (38.1MB) (https://www.dropbox.com/s/4f04knb51xuw8eu/ReLS%20v0.8.zip)
Version 0.8 for those who Already Have 0.1 (27.7MB) (https://www.dropbox.com/s/qsw1cu5qkxevytx/ReLS%20Upgrade%200.1%20to%200.8.zip)
Version 0.1 (17.6MB) (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48264981/ReLS/ReLS%20v0.1.zip)


Things that exist:
Title: Re: Lunacy Star [Remake] Version 0.1
Post by: Trickysticks on October 19, 2013, 11:58:44 PM
Looking forward to this. I enjoyed the original Lunacy Star, and hopefully I'll enjoy this one even more. Though I recall you didn't finish the previous one; how much do you think this will contain in the future?
Title: Re: Lunacy Star [Remake] Version 0.1
Post by: Zil on October 22, 2013, 11:16:23 PM
I played it for a bit. Certainly more balanced than the old one. Nothing struck me as too difficult but a few things were maybe too easy, like the second boss's timeout. Also the laser shot seems too strong, compared to any of the others.
Title: Re: Lunacy Star [Remake] Version 0.1
Post by: チソウ　タイゼン on October 28, 2013, 05:51:07 PM
Quote from: Trickysticks on October 19, 2013, 11:58:44 PM
Looking forward to this. I enjoyed the original Lunacy Star, and hopefully I'll enjoy this one even more. Though I recall you didn't finish the previous one; how much do you think this will contain in the future?

Ah, it should be the same as before. General 6 stages, plus an extra, plus a tutorial Zero Stage for people who don't know what they're doing.
I'm trying to cater to non-bullet-hell players with this, and the lenient-as-fuck lives system, and the infinite continues.
There will be 60 spellcards to capture in one main game run, 25 in the Extra, and then the Zero stage will feature 7, for a total of 92 individual attacks, or 272 perfection records to attain.

Quote from: Zil on October 22, 2013, 11:16:23 PM
I played it for a bit. Certainly more balanced than the old one. Nothing struck me as too difficult but a few things were maybe too easy, like the second boss's timeout. Also the laser shot seems too strong, compared to any of the others.

Well, I am trying to keep it from lapsing into the total bullshit that the game turned out to be the last time, hehe. Thanks for checking it out.
The game DOES pick up a lot in Stage 4, by the way. I'm in the middle of writing Stage 5 and it's hell and one half to get through on the hardest difficulty.
Title: Re: Lunacy Star [Remake] Version 0.1
Post by: Raitaki on November 01, 2013, 05:13:11 PM
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I'm trying to cater to non-bullet-hell players with this
> Easy mode S1-5 as hard as IN Normal
the newb friendliness
IT'S KILLING ME
Title: Re: Lunacy Star [Remake] Version 0.1
Post by: I have no name on November 01, 2013, 05:51:23 PM
Alright...
Still seems to rely on faster patterns, which is a stylistic choice that's totally fine (just not my preference).
Deaths don't clear the screen, so I would have to bomb immediately after dying.
I was able to bomb right before the Stage 2 midboss, and have said midboss die (or at least its first pattern) and the game awarded me a 'perfect' for this.
Like the original , feels really unbalanced :/  It's better about this and there's less flat out "how is this even possible" stuff, for me, but there's still patterns that I can't follow and then the next one is a trivial capture.

Definitely shows promise though
Title: Re: Lunacy Star [Remake] Version 0.1
Post by: チソウ　タイゼン on November 02, 2013, 03:33:22 AM
Quote from: Raitaki on November 01, 2013, 05:13:11 PM
> Easy mode S1-5 as hard as IN Normal
the newb friendliness
IT'S KILLING ME

I'll make a note to nerf things further.
Also give the player more lives perhaps. Can't go wrong with maxing out at 18 lives and 20 bombs.

Quote from: I have no name on November 01, 2013, 05:51:23 PM
Alright...
Still seems to rely on faster patterns, which is a stylistic choice that's totally fine (just not my preference).
Stage 4 and beyond features many more micrododge-oriented patterns.

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Deaths don't clear the screen, so I would have to bomb immediately after dying.
I do apologize. I've implemented this in the development build already, however.
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I was able to bomb right before the Stage 2 midboss, and have said midboss die (or at least its first pattern) and the game awarded me a 'perfect' for this.
This as well.

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Like the original , feels really unbalanced :/  It's better about this and there's less flat out "how is this even possible" stuff, for me, but there's still patterns that I can't follow and then the next one is a trivial capture.

Definitely shows promise though

I'd have to know which individual attacks you're referring to, but I'm glad to know that I'm doing a little better than last time, haha. Thank you so much for playing.
Title: Re: Lunacy Star [Remake] Version 0.1
Post by: チソウ　タイゼン on November 27, 2013, 11:50:36 PM
Please also, submit your highscores, I am compiling them. There will be another release, featuring the remainder of the game, hopefully by the end of the year.
Title: Re: Lunacy Star [Remake] Version 0.1
Post by: Raitaki on December 04, 2013, 12:55:04 AM
(http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/8959/94hv.png)
WHAT DO I WIN
Title: Re: Lunacy Star [Remake] Version 0.1
Post by: チソウ　タイゼン on December 04, 2013, 03:28:15 AM
raitaki are you srs
you predated my release of 0.8 .-.

Also
(http://puu.sh/5BwjM.jpg)

(http://puu.sh/5Bwl8.png)

WELL ANYWAY

Version 0.8 (38.1MB) (https://www.dropbox.com/s/4f04knb51xuw8eu/ReLS%20v0.8.zip)
Version 0.8 for those who Already Have 0.1 (27.7MB) (https://www.dropbox.com/s/qsw1cu5qkxevytx/ReLS%20Upgrade%200.1%20to%200.8.zip)
Title: Re: Lunacy Star [Remake] Version 0.8 ~ now with 6 stages
Post by: チソウ　タイゼン on December 16, 2013, 04:34:44 AM
Oh, I would greatly appreciate commentary on the game's rebalancing as of this version. There's now a hypering function and I suspect that its existence trivializes survival.

As for progress,
I've implemented the game's spell practice.

(http://puu.sh/5OcIp.png)
(http://puu.sh/5Ocz2.png)
(http://puu.sh/5OczA.png)

I just need to actually put together replay viewing and the Extra and Zero Stages and then I'm.... more or less done.
Backgrounds, maybe, too, would be nice. I'll have to ~*try*~ really really hard not to do them last.