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Turrican II: The Final Fight, Gods (also The Bitmap Brothers are awesome Developers and have made some of my favourite games of all time), Flashback, Another World were some of the best.

It's inspired by Metroid, Megaman and Castlevania with a few Zelda-style puzzles here and there.

The development blog is over here.

I hope you enjoy the videos and progress so far.

Just looked at the dev blog, Game looks real fun! and graphics are looking good! Going to follow the development hehe :)

i love it :)

Looks great! I was thinking of trying out something similar next month. So I may have some questions later if you don't mind.

Keep up the good work :)

Truly awesome. Love the music so far and the slow motion mechanic looks to die for.

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Looks really great. Nice work!

Looks fab! It's got that Japanesey feel to it with the cute graphics and sound. Love the teleporter effect at the end.

Looks awesome, I love games like this. Do you have a twitter account I can follow?

Thanks guys!

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Looks awesome, I love games like this. Do you have a twitter account I can follow?

Thank you! I don't have a twitter account for the actual game. I should probably create one now. I just feel that if I start creating a Twitter and Facebook to promote the game that it starts to put the pressure on. Stay tuned.

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Looks fab! It's got that Japanesey feel to it with the cute graphics and sound. Love the teleporter effect at the end.

I may have borrowed the floating orbs from Biolab Disaster and they won't actually make it into the final game.

I'm working with the EventChain function that was developed by @drhayes to perform certain things like spawn entities, shift the camera to a different entity for a certain period of time and then shift back, etc. I can highly recommend it if you're performing lots of (this, then, that) tasks. Works flawlessly for what I want to do.

Thanks for all the feedback guys, much appreciated!

I was curious about how you did the floor-to-roof lasers.

Are they a fixed height?

@mLautz: I have a top entity and a bottom entity, I then connect the top to the bottom via a target.

I then spawn a laser beam entity in the update() method of the top entity and set its height calculated by this.distanceTo(target); and set it to an instance variable called say: doorHeight.

That way I can determine how long the laser beam needs to be. So I can actually stretch the laser beam out to whatever height I desire inside weltmeister. Provided they're connected, it all works.

Something like:

ig.game.spawnEntity(EntityLaserBeam, this.pos.x, this.pos.y, { doorHeight: this.distanceTo(target) });

I then set all my animations accordingly.

It's probably not the best way to achieve the desired result, but it seems to be working fine for me. It's something I've wanted to optimise a little better to be honest but there have been a lot of things to keep me occupied in the mean time.

Hope this makes sense, let me know how you go.

Looks very nice. The graphics are quite good, are you the one doing them?

@unstoppableCarl Thanks for the feedback! I'm getting a designer out of Finland doing the pixel graphics. I'm doing all the code.

@fulvio

That's pretty much how I would have planned to do it as well. Thanks for the confirmation :)

@mLautz You're welcome.

Awesome stuff! People have definitely started using Impact for professional quality pixel art games now, which is great! Following your blog :)

@Krisjet: Thanks!

Love it. Reminds me of dr light.

Good work

Great work fulvio!

Quick question about the slow down effect, do you do that by modifying the framerate?

Created a Facebook page and Twitter account to follow Oxygene.

Very cool!

For some reason, your banner on you're facebook page for your game reminded me of Cave story. When I look at the banner, your main character to me resembles Quote from Cave Story, and the girl on the right resembles Curly Brace. Nice game by the way.

Man, thats a damn fine looking game. I hope I can get anomalous up to this level!

Awesome!

Thanks for all the feedback, much appreciated!

Oxygene was submitted to PAXAus as part of the Australian Indie Showcase. Wish us luck!