Horizontal R-Type Style Shooter

I did some self teaching the last week to brush up my Unity knowledge and took the chance to get into C# for once. Even though i just used free store assets so far, i'm pretty happy with the result. What do you people think?

 

Looks really good .. I was brought up on R Type ..

 

Hmm. I'll be a bit more negative sounding. It's a good start with a lot of room for improvement. There is absolutely zero innovation here. Same old bog-standard shmup formula.... spaceships follow a predetermined fixed path, shoot some bullets in a straight line, player dodges and shoots. But keep going!

 

And now for balance...

It has a very cool look to it as far as the presentation goes. I don't know why exactly but I like the look.

The game play does look very standard. I don't see R-Type here at all and instead just a generic side scrolling shooter.

Overall, I think it is a great start. Just needs a lot of "more", a generous serving of variety and just a dash of something somewhat unique.

 

Thanks for the feedback. It's true about it being hardly creative so far. I'm actually a graphic artist and doing this for getting into the technical side of Unity. Hence first time i programmed in C#, so that was already quite an archivement for me. As such the innovation part is taking the backseat so far and the graphics are freebies from the asset store, as i know i can get easily lost when doing art. Stupid perfectionism... I'll make it pretty once i'm happy with the gameplay.

Also, it's only one week so far as a Noob from ground up. The formations atm are rather generic, as it's the first implementation of a path-following system. Just put them in to test the system.

My short-term goal is to get at least a sorta general R-Type/Thunderforce/Gradius feeling to it, which means better level design and more types of enemies.

My big plan is to have it run on my arcade machine earlier or later:

 

Today's update is a grayblock/first design of the player ship. I will dedicate a day once in a while to art, so it also looks the part a little more.

 

For one week of work having to learn all the way you have done an outstanding job.

 

Thank you sir, you made me smile today morning

 

Love it.

 

Next enemy type: Walker!

 

May want to add a very subtle up/down motion to the body - reaction to the walking motion. Looks good!

 

yah nice, far surpassed my modeling skills