TUMIKI Fighters Takes Free PC Shmups Higher 38
drunken-sosage writes "ABA Games released a new freeware PC title a couple of days ago called TUMIKI Fighters. It's a horizontal shoot-em up that allows players to upgrade their ship by 'catching' destroyed enemy ships, resulting in your ship being a bigger target. However, that enemy ship's bullet pattern is added to your offensive arsenal. The author, Kenta Cho, is one of the crème of the crop auteurs of the crowded independent shmup genre - Slashdotters may already be familiar with ABA Games' other freeware PC shooters/utils such as BulletML, rRootage and Parsec47."
How much longer... (Score:5, Insightful)
BulletML (Score:5, Insightful)
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Inchrnt Ab.rv'shns (Score:1)
However, he does demonstrate some internal inconsistency with the description for another creation:
Ah the pernicious and pandemic Nihonglish--
Re:Credit where credit is due (Score:1)
What the...? (Score:3, Insightful)
The game description says:
So why the hell isn't there a Linux version?!
Re:What the...? (Score:5, Informative)
The latest game is gonna be kinda weird though. I've never touched a D compiler... the source is there, nevertheless.
Re:What the...? (Score:1)
http://tranzoa.net/~scott/Makefile.p47
A Makefile for tf is coming.
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Just keep compiling and every time it gives an error on a line that reads something like "x = y;" change it to "x = (int)(y);" (Of course x and y are both going to look alot more complicated than that). There's probably a better way I could have done it, though.
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Scary Boss (Score:5, Funny)
I've spent far too much time on the net to not be intimidated by a message like that!
Shmups? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Shmups? (Score:3, Informative)
Wired can't have it I'm afraid.
Re:Shmups? (Score:2)
Founded by Malcolm Laurie a few years back. Cool guy. Used to talk to him a lot.
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Weird... (Score:1)
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It runs under GNU/Linux too... (Score:2, Informative)
For Macintosh users (Score:3, Informative)
- http://www.victoly.com/~adam/
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Gameplay an homage to G-Darius? (Score:1)
From The Underdogs:
The game's best innovation is the addition of "capture balls" - a new kind of weapon you can shoot (with limited ammo) to capture enemy ships. Captured ships can be used as a weapon (with its firepower added to yours),
Good Idea but needs some Balancing (Score:1)
Re:Good Idea but needs some Balancing (Score:1)
Given the firepower of the base weapon, the extra addons aren't as much help as they could be.
However, the addons don't have to hit within the 30-degree arc - I find that on mission 2 and later, enemies have increased firing strengths meaning that you need all the firing spread you can get.
Trip-o-matic experience (Score:1)
Fun with .XML files (Score:3, Interesting)
(I would also suggest editing the