Ormanauta - a new shmup announced for AES(+)

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Anything from that Spanish Plaion account needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. Wasn't this an indie game being developed for years called 'Innyya' or something. And yes, it *was* an Amiga game too
 

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I guess, that just says that if it's not "weebish" it's "Amiga".

I take that as a compliment.
As much as I love how some japanese games look, especially on the Neo Geo, I have my own style of how to pixel graphics, and I don't plan to try to have my art look like something it is not. That would be really weird, imho.

It's just different courses for different horses.

Guess some of you guys will need to get used to not every future Neo Geo game is made by Dai Senpai Itsufumisake Kamushikakasaki San, since around 99% of the Neo Geo homebrew scene is and has been mostly european.

But then, since nobody is forced to buy or even like anything, we can all be fine. <3
 
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Guess some of you guys will need to get used to not every future Neo Geo game is made by Dai Senpai Itsufumisake Kamushikakasaki San, since around 99% of the Neo Geo homebrew scene is and has been mostly european.
Why the gratuitous katakana in the title screen then? hmm.

I was wondering that lately actually, why do homebrews lately have all been using JP characters for stylization when they couldn't be more western looking? Gives me abi... Apidya vibes. Which is a game on the ____

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(y) That ship design is atrocious. It needs to be redesigned from the ground up.

They're definitely going for that "no dark colors or black pixels (racist)" vibe. I like the palette...a lot, actually. It just looks like it's missing a layer. Probably needs highlights now that I am staring at it. But yeah, the ship and a lot of those sprites need help.
 

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They're definitely going for that "no dark colors or black pixels (racist)" vibe. I like the palette...a lot, actually. It just looks like it's missing a layer. Probably needs highlights now that I am staring at it. But yeah, the ship and a lot of those sprites need help.
I know that it's unfinished, but that ship design looks like something a 1st grader would draw if asked to "draw a space ship" for homework. Better to hire someone off Fiver that's versed in tech design to redesign it than to risk turning potential customers off with something that looks so amateurish.
 

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I guess, that just says that if it's not "weebish" it's "Amiga".

I take that as a compliment.
As much as I love how some japanese games look, especially on the Neo Geo, I have my own style of how to pixel graphics, and I don't plan to try to have my art look like something it is not. That would be really weird, imho.

It's just different courses for different horses.

Guess some of you guys will need to get used to not every future Neo Geo game is made by Dai Senpai Itsufumisake Kamushikakasaki San, since around 99% of the Neo Geo homebrew scene is and has been mostly european.

But then, since nobody is forced to buy or even like anything, we can all be fine. <3
Game looks good to me, best of luck!
 

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They're definitely going for that "no dark colors or black pixels (racist)" vibe. I like the palette...a lot, actually. It just looks like it's missing a layer. Probably needs highlights now that I am staring at it. But yeah, the ship and a lot of those sprites need help.
Yeah I'm not trying to be hatin', I understand this is in development but even Irem's R-Type looked cool despite the pillowy shading because the enemy design had character, your enemy ships are almost abstract. Like what are the enemies with the rotating green panels supposed to be? The red flying buttplugs look like flying buttplugs, the grey featureless spinning things look like nothing, the midboss is some crab thing with fur and random metal parts? Why does it float sideways and spins around while its appendages do nothing, movement pattern doesn't make sense (lost opportunity to have him move up and down in a cliff at the end of that part of the stage).

I guess that's what people are trying to say when they say it looks like an amiga game. That's exactly what a lot of euroshmups do on the art department, just random vaguely space related looking shit thrown at you.

The woman in the attract mode looks like a nude model traced over, those never look right either.

I don't mean to come off as a dick, I couldn't make art half as good myself, but these are legitimate criticisms, I hope you consider it.
 
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Where the fuck are the power-ups?

Looks like the kind of dross that came out of Korea in the early 90s from Boonpun or Dogyak or whatever the fuck they were called.

I really hope Plaion don't officially endorse this crap. It'll just encourage more garbage releases.
 

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There are complaints about the ship design on the Youtube trailer so out of curiosity I swapped in some different ships to see if it makes a difference in how the game looks.

Screenshots are ships from modern "homebrew" games for the Genesis.
 

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