Dragon Blaster
A downloadable game for Windows
In this shoot-em-up, you control a dragon; you have 3 types of power-up: lightning, fire and wind. You can also combine different types of power up for different shots, that is, lightining + lightining. lightining + fire and so on.
For now, this game is still on a prototype stage.
Weapon combinations:
- Basic: Lightining, Fire, Wind
- Combinations:
- Thunderbolt (lightining+lightining);
- Hellfire (fire + fire);
- Tempest (wind + wind);
- Firebolt (lightining + fire);
- Thunderstorm (lightining + wind);
- Firestorm (lightining + wind).
Sega Master System controls:
- Button 1: enables/disables powerups;
- Button 2: fire;
- D-pad: move the dragon around.
Embedded emulator controls (if you're using the full distribution):
- A: enables/disables powerups;
- S: fire;
- Arrow keys: move the dragon around.
Github repo: https://github.com/haroldo-ok/dragon-blaster
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Install instructions
The game comes in two kinds of distribution:
- dragon-blaster-0.3.full-distribution.zip (Windows only): Comes with the ROM plus an embedded emulator and a batch file to call the emulator to execute the ROM; good option if you don't have a Sega Master System emulator;
- dragon_blaster-0.3.sms.rom-only.zip: contains only the Sega Master System ROM; you will need a Sega Master System emulator to play it; it may or may not play on real hardware, but hasn't been tested, yet; this is a good option if you already have an emulator, or if you want to try the game on a non-Windows environment.
Development log
- Version 0.11 is now availableJul 27, 2022
- Version 0.10 is now available!Jul 25, 2022
- Version 0.9, now with scoring and a boss!Apr 24, 2022
- Version 0.8 is now available!Jan 16, 2022
- Version 0.7 is now available, with a few performance improvements.Nov 21, 2021
- Version 0.6 is now available!Nov 16, 2021
- Version 0.5 is now available!Nov 04, 2021
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I like the themeing(sp) and graphics a lot. I feel like this is game style is needed on SMS - a dragon themed shooter.
I was running it on mednafen/mednaffee 0.9.2, and the background scrolling speed would go slower when enemies were on screen, then quicken up when they were gone (not sure if thats intentional). Also when I would time out on the boss, the screen would start to scroll again with the wrong tiles on the background. During the multiple playthroughs, I never took damage, neither did the boss - not sure if this is just 'not working yet'.
As far as playability, it was hard to tell which weapon I currently had selected, and how exactly the weapon powering up system worked.
All in all I liked it.
Thanks for the review!
The game still has various problems performance-wise, which is why it slows down when there's more than one enemy on screen.
The player blinks when hit by an enemy, but has infinite health.
The boss is very much unfinished, which is why it glitches.
The power-up system is heavily inspired by Gunstar Heroes, meaning that you can have up to two weapons at the same time, and can press a button to alternate between using just one of them, either the primary or the secondary, or you can use both at the same time, which results in a weapons that combines both of them.
I like to see some SMS love!
I had a lot of fun with that! Thank you, very addicting.