Nebulon, Lotus Stellar Conflict )( XNA Roundup #27

Nebulon is a retro styled space shooter in the vain of geometry wars, definitely worth a purchase. Lotus Stellar Conflict is a tactical top down space shooter. Subscribe to support the show. Episode sponsored by Godaddy, use the code XNA20H to get 20% off hosting.

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[BlackSpiderWolf]

Nebulon looks cool, I'll have to give it a try.

Even though I love Geometry wars I get really bored of the community clones.

But Nebulon looks like its changed enough things to keep it fresh.

Great show. "Friggin' Dilithium Crystals" lol

[nicktheduderino]

Thanks!

I think you'll like it, at least give the demo a shot!

Nick

[daphydthebard]

I'm already working on the fix for a patch next week.

Daphyd

[nicktheduderino]

Nice! Let me know and I'll annotate the video when you do.

Thanks!

[TledgEs]

hahaha "damn trioids"

great show man really great

And for nebulon I imagine they could easily fixed the slowdown in an update, I can already see the code for the warm enemy causing major garbage due to a small desgin flaw.

[nicktheduderino]

Haha, thanks for watching!

Nick

[DarkOmenGames]

I am going to release an update for Nebulon (tonight) with the following changes:

Control Scheme changed to dual-stick

Grid brightness increased

More on-screen/audio feedback

More help-screens detaling the mechanics of play

Performance issues addressed

This will need to go through peer review again, but that shouldn't take too long.

[daphydthebard]

*Some* developers do :-)

Us, for example.

Our ethos is to write fun, good-quality games. that the community want to play, so if people want a dual-stick option for Nebulon, they can have it.

DaphydTheBard

DarkOmenGames

[Orbitguy5]

Lol the first game is a rip off of Stellar Conflicts (Flash MMO), as well as Star Sonata. However, Lotus got such a bad review here I don't think it could compare with either game anyway.

[linkinpark9sc]

Concept of lotus most likely taken from:

stellar conflicts @ gecko-games[dot]com

[MINILiFE]

whats up people..carlos here from mevio

psyched about the new episode - uploading today..so def look for it later.

and thanks for all the kind comments comin my way -- i dig doing the show with nick and we have started doing some of em over here at mevio. so that = rad.

[DarkOmenGames]

Thanks.

Just you wait for Nebulon II ...

[Jokis]

With this video and this planned update of yours, you just sold yourself another copy. Congrats. It's an amazing game.

[daphydthebard]

Yes, twice.

[DarkOmenGames]

Yes, and while it was there we blogged and twittered and facebooked that it was in play test to try and get feed back.

We had a fair bit, but nothing on the controls.

As Dave says, we aim to please though :)

[JDoucette]

This is great news! I have to say that I lost interest immediately upon finding out the control scheme was difficult, and I couldn't do what I wanted to do. I know control schemes in games are made to be different and unique, but it flies in the face of what I believe make good games great: giving power to the player.

I think it's great that you're updating the game. I'll definitely check it out again and likely buy it.

Question: Did Nebulon go through the Play Test in the community?

[matthewdoucette]

That's amazing. I almost gave up on reviwing community games because so few developers are willing to listen (not just to me, but to an overwhelming majority of negative feedback). It ended up being a waste of time unless the feedback was on bugs and crashes. So... Congratulations on being one of the few that listen. I'll be checking out your game after the update.