Arora Rift, demo gameplay video (old)

Short gameplay video from my latest game "Arora Rift", which is a fast paced sci-fi shoot em' up. To be released for the GP2X Caanoo handheld, soon.
NOTE: This gameplay video is old and outdated, watch the new one here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qop9AOf86Ao

Music credit:
NemesisTheory of Newgrounds Audio Portal

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Gaming

Tags:

• arora rift
• shoot em up

[CanonShotBack]

Amazing. Is Bennu using SDL or already OpenGLES in this case? Wiz too?

[Despellanion]

@CanonShotBack This is pure 2D. I'm not using any 3D libraries at all for this game.

[skarrik]

Looks great, though the explosion sprites could stand to be better. They would probably be much better if they were pixel art or simply not a sprite that's originally designed for additive blending.

I like the color pallet choice. The blue tinted ground seems to contrast a LOT from the red sky on the first stage, though.

[Despellanion]

@skarrik Thanks for the comments, skarrik. There are many challenges when working with a 8-bit palette. I don't want the graphics to look too retro so pixel art is something I will not consider for sprites.

[jlenoconel]

Nice. Looks like classic PC/PS1 graphics.

[Despellanion]

@jlenoconel Thank you. Actually I was going for retro graphics like you would see in the old F-zero and Mario kart games for SNES.

[jlenoconel]

@Despellanion It looks more realistic than SNES. I like the old PC style graphics :)