Hello everyone! As its hard to avoid stereotypes in shmup game i spent this week working on new set of enemies as i want to keep player entertained with new kind of enemies every level.
These will appear for first time during second mission called "The Descent". I ve been inspired by a lot of sci fi stuff while drawing these and i tried as hard as i could to have some unifiing element present on all of them. In this case there are antenas in tho front of all of them and simillar colors. New enemies presented in this article can be divided in two types, the smaller ones withou orange decks on tops are the interceptors. Lets talk about them first.
The smaller and symetric one is classic one-shoot "popcorn" enemy. They are attacking in huge numbers in fast zooming attacks and enemies like these are present in most shmup games to give the player "im a badass" feeling and their main purpose is to fill the screen with smoke and fire of their own explosion.
Second type of interceptor is slightly bigger, asymetric shape and have visible power source. These are a bit tougher than first ones, can maneuver a bit while shooting aimed bullets at player. Enemies like this are usualy bit harder to crack when appear for the first time, but are the ones where player can feel ship upgrades most as in later stages they ll quickly fall in to "popcorn" enemy category as they ll become just a bit more dangerous one shootable insect.
Now lets talk about the big guys;-) The smaller one is kind of support ship for the interceptors and as they look much bulkier they are obviously much more durable and have much bigger firepower. Usualy comes with the pack of interceptors and serve mainly as a distraction but can become dangerous when left unnoticed.
The bigest ship on the screen is kind of mini boss enemy. As it should be obvious to every player on sight, it has double the durability and firepower than its smaller brother and its the first enemy thats going to use beam attack against the player.
Thanks for reading and hope i ll come back to check for more updates soon!
Tryzna
