Starshock, a retro-esque arcade shooter

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Starshock is a game that takes place in a space station. Terrible things are happening and you are a survivor. The game isn’t Duke Nukem, you do not run around shooting monsters like there’s no tomorrow because if you die, you die. You have to utilize your tools; every single credit, every single mine, every single bullet and the environment. There are message terminals to provide information about the station and provide stories of survivors to help you immerse with the game. There’s nothing useless, it doesn’t remind you that you are playing a game - you are a survivor of a disaster, and you want to stay as one

Hello JGO, this is a game by me and mrmotarius. The idea has been out there for a long time and I’ve been working on it but I lost the old code which caused me to restart it. I’ve been working on this since 4.2.2013 and we both are on a very fast pace, working towards getting this out as a commercial release!

The game is written in Java, using LWJGL for input and graphics. The engine is complete and we are doing our best to bring in a lot of new content to make this game provide you with 100% pure fun

Most of the screenshots above run at 40~ FPS but don’t worry, it’s the netbook I’m working on that doesn’t support hardware acceleration

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Looks pretty neat :o!!
I love the look of it.

If I may, the graphics are only missing emissive/shadeless textures, like neons and fluorescent lights to make it look more futuristic. Think Dark Forces’ graphics, which were (and still are) amazing.

#4

I really like the art style. Looks incredible!

#5

EHEM! this is not TIGsource.

#6

It… reminds me of system shock :persecutioncomplex:

I can imagine this beat on:

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#7

Sins of copy pasting!

#8

Art style is epic, really does remind me of system shock as well. Some of the weapons should have more depth (first post, last picture), but the rest look great.

#9

Most of the are development pictures and don’t really depict the latest stage of the game

#10

wow that looks f**cking quality, I love your gfx. some weird futuristic nostalgia thing going on I think

EDIT is there any name or erm, style of art you’re using? any word I can whack into google to see more similar stuff? I rarely see something as nice as this and when i describe the style to others they think im a babbling moron

#11

And tool used to draw them :wink:

#12

As I said I’m not doing the graphics so I can’t really help you with this, thanks anyways

#13

That’s okay. Can’t wait to play it!

#14

I like the art style

#15

I don’t get why (since Minecraft) everybody seems to like blocky unfiltered low-res graphics… ???

#16

I’m impressed that you’ve gotten that far in this since February 4. By the screenshots that it very good progress in that amount of time. It looks very interesting.

#17

Not everything is a copy of Minecraft, the look I’m trying to achieve is Doom/Wolfenstein

We both work really hard day and night!

#18

And it looks it! Awesome game so far, can’t wait to actually try it out.

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i also immediatly thought of doom, but for some reason so much better looking

i dislike minecraft gfx

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Minecraft is both good and bad for low-res graphics and/or voxel engines.

On one hand, it stopped people saying “THIS GAME IZ BAD BECUZ THE GRAPHICS SUCKZ!” therefore helping indie games with bad art get out there.

On the other hand, now all the morons on the internet think that Minecraft invented pixel art and low-res graphics and now they flame all the games with “THIS GAME IZ BAD BECUZ IT IS LIEK MINECRAFT!!!”

Moral of the story: You can never win with idiots.