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U.S.G. A New Beginning

[Contest Project] U.S.G. ~A New Beginning~ !!! NEW VERSION !

Oh I absolutely love the voices =x

Anyway I've practicing Lunatic on Touhou6, and somehow I think your game on normal is harder. Don't know if the bullets have bigger collision boxes or the ship has a bigger hitbox or something, but fact is I get hit A LOT more even though it's a lot less bullets.

Again, great game. You have my vote :)
 
@Money
  I'll upload the game to another site for you. Do you have any site that you prefer? If not, then I'll use zshare :)

@Havendor
  Thank you! Though, I'm a little confused by your comment. You get hit a lot more in Touhou or in my game? If you mean my game is easier then ,yeah you're right. XD I can't have as many bullets as that due to the rgss being too slow to handle all the bullets T_T (Either that, or I haven't fully optimized the bullet management :P)
 
That was my bad, sorry ^^,

I find yours harder, in a sense - not dodging all the crazy attacks, but in touhou I can pass right by a bullet, just a few pixels away and I won't get hit. If I go anywhere near the bullets in USG, I'll get hit; that's why I was talking about hitboxes. So it's a bit frustrating thinking I can pass right through a hole and still get hit. That's a minor problem though :smile:
 
@Hevendor
Oh I get it now.  Hmm I thought I already made the bullets hitboxes small already. Maybe there are some that I missed, probably on the first two stages.  Sorry about that :'(

@Bullet_Darkness
There are three reasons that I can think of right now
1. Press F1 and see if you uncheck the "Playing BGM and BGS"
2. Check the music volume in option screen
3. You don't have the dll that allows you to play wma files.

I hope this help, since I really don't want you to miss the boss fight bgm. :)
 
Mirror link added :) If anyone find the link's not working for you, please tell me and suggest me a site, I'll try uploading it to the suggested website.
 
Bullet_Darkness, please try playing the music files in window media player first. If it doesn't work, I think install the new version of wmp might help :)
 
@Despain
  That's really nice of you! I really appreciate it. Please do so, if it isn't too much trouble :)

@Bullet_Darkness
  I'm not sure then.. :S Does this happen to other RMXP game as well? Frankly, I've never encountered a problem like this before. I take it that you have pressed F1 and checked the Play BGM checkbox.
 
@Twilight
  Are you planning on challenging the boss rush on hard!? Still, that was pretty fast :) And I'm  really glad you like the game!

I did a few runs on Hard but get caught up near the end with Chuck. Need to build up my Rave Stock a bit more. Max out Health, Ice, and Photon weapons. Maxed the Focus Rave, and near maxing out the rest of the weapons.
 
Your game is the only game that does that...  :down: And yes i have checked the play bgm and me box.
But, great job on the game anyway. Its a challenge and its fun!
 
@Twilight
  Wow! You're almost maxed out everything XD As a game developer, it's a compliment ^ ^

@Bullet_Darkness
  That's really weird @_@;; As I said before, I've never encountered any problem like this one...Sorry that I couldn't help :S  It's good to know that you're still be able to enjoy the game without the music though!
  Oh, what if you tried replacing the game music with yours?  At least we can narrow down the problem to either musics or the game itself.


Anyway, I have updated the first post with a userbar :) Hope you all like it!
 
Okay, I have narrowed it down! I switched the stage-3.wma with one of my songs(back stage-3.wma up and replaced it) and did indeed work, so i am asuming its the music, But i can play your music in media player. Good solution. So mabye if you upload the music by itself i can try again?
 
Hima, this is an amazing game. I love every almost every aspect of it, from character design to story, and the gameplay is simply unbelievable. Being able to increase HP and weapon power adds a very nice touch. The game is very hard, especially on higher difficulties (I can't even beat level two on hard) but easily adapted to.

There are a few grammer and spelling mistakes, and every once in a while text is cut off the sides, but overall this is one of the best games I have every played - everything feels very professional. Great job!

EDIT: And I forgot to add - the music is great. Sometimes the level music doesn't quite seem to fit, but the cutscene and boss music are fantastic and memorable.
 
@Yggdrassil
  Thank you very much! I'm really glad you like the game this much XD. I've tried to proof read all the scripts, but it seems like I've overlooked some parts :(  I'm glad that you like the story too. I know that it's weird may even be ridiculous , but believe it or not it's the first thing that came into my mind when I heard the theme 'A New Beginning' :P
  The game could be very hard to people who has never played this genre (bullet hell shmup.) However, one of the goals that I want to archive from this game is to create a shmup game that anyone can play. And it seems like many people who never played shmup game, learn how to play one pretty quickly. Actually I was quite surprised from Arcanum's reply that he's at 4th stage regardless of him having no shooting gaming experience. The 3rd stage is probably the hardest stage in the first-half of the game , since many of my testers stuck there before they have to do some grinding (depending on their skill too, of course).  Anyway, Arcanum must have beaten the game by now haha.

As for the music, I now have the ogg version which has been edited for them to loop better, without stop or pausing before starting a new loop. This is all thanks to Jirbytaylor :)

http://jirby.cleverpun.com/temp/usgbgm_fix.zip

There's also another music called 'Knock It Down' as a bonus track. If you like it you can rename and put it in any stage you like. I found the name to be coincidentally fit the system of the game. (Knock down enemies lol)

@Bullet_Darkness
  Please try the url above and see if the music work. If they do, I'll convert the rests that are not included in the file to ogg :)
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  To those who has beaten the game, I really encourage you to play every stage in hard mode (If your computer can handle it). Not only the enemies are stronger, but also some parts of the level are different from the other difficulty. And...you get 2x exp :P
 
Oh great, I just found out I deleted my save file. Sigh.

Finally beat touhou, so I'm going back to USG... straight to hard mode too :eek:

EDIT
Hard Mode is awesome. Period. I lag a bit during some of the parts with more bullets.

The boss music is really catchy too. And I just died at the same time I killed a boss and failed the mission ><
 

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