How I Made My FIRST EVER Bullet Hell Game For
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Thrills, spills, drama, suspense, action, danger; my first ever bullet hell game for #BulletHellJam was an experience containing none of these.
Instead, I worked with an amazing artist (who happens to be my partner) in creating one of the best-looking games I've ever had the pleasure of working on. IN A WEEK.
Play MALEDICTUS for free on itch.io here: pens-n-pixels....
This looks like a fleshed out game already, great job!
Thank you, so much! There's plenty more we could do with it, I think at this point a full game somewhere down the line is almost inevitable...
Best video of your's so far!
Thank you, so much!
Harry is amazing. Jealous of each of your art abilities. Thank goodness for pixel art lol
Isn't he just? Also, thank you! But art is only a small part of the whole game, I'm sure you've got more to offer.
This game was great! It was really awesome, can’t believe this was made in a week, even with 2 people. Also yeah, that video would be really cool! I hope you’ve gotten some sleep since then :)
So glad you think so! And yeah, sleep finally happened. Couldn't have done all of this without it, thanks for asking.
You 2 did an amazing job with the time allocated
Can’t wait to see what you guys brew up next
Thank you! Well, we'll be doing some small fixes for the jam version of Maledictus soonish and, after a couple of my own projects are finished, working on a full-size release! ;)
JAYYYYY
JUUUUUUUICE
You can _draw_ ? Since when?! Also 'Square Fred Jumping Around Squaresville' better be coming to Steam soon.
Apparently not for this game! ;)
Thanks for making This very interesting video about game development.
When you talked about a "proximity feature".
It reminded me of a very niche mechanic.
I think you'd know about "CAVE" and their bullet hell games.
Well, in one of them.
"Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi" (yes that's it's full name), there is a scoring feature, scores in the game are represented by green squares with numbers on them (called Chips).
The scoring feature is that the more closer you are to an enemy the bigger the score is.
Ahhhh, I know a couple of CAVE games (Death Smiles is probably my favourite, but I also love ProGear and Akai Katana -- there's something about the horizontal ones I love, apparently!) but I'm not familiar with Ketsui. Maybe I'll have to get into it, and call it research. ;)
This game was one of the best from the jam! Congrats! :)
Thank you, so much! That means a lot to us both.
This game looks so good!
Absolutely stunning game. Love the visuals. What a great story..... I can code but I can't do art to save my life. I have never found an artist so I get stuck on the "squares" or "place holder" stage and give up. I am going to try again in 2024. Maybe I can find someone great to work with after hearing your inspiring story! Can't find a finished full game for sale. Shame you two didn't do the full game. It has so much potential
We *might* have started work on a full version earlier this year, maybe. We also *could* be taking it a little slowly because of other things going on, and *possibly* will start posting updates when there's something to show. ;)
Squares can work though. Two older indie shmups by the same dev, rRootage and Noiz2SA, had visuals that were just squares and other simple geometric shapes. And they were AWESOME. :)
Awesome - Well done
Thank you, the jam was a lot of fun for us as you can probably tell. :)
Great devlog dude. A bullet hell jam sounds fun. Maybe I'll see you in the GMTK jam 👍
Perhaps! If I like the theme, and I've been informed they've all been good so far, then I'll see you there! (And also, thank you!)
Wich tjat the vid didn't end
I enjoyed every step of it
Great work
Awwww, thanks! I assure you, more are coming; maybe even another collaboration with my artist partner in the not too distant future... ;)
I love this so much! If H worked on this and added some more enemies and bosses, this would make a great mobile game!
Mobile? Hmmmm, we might've worked out a control scheme for that if it ends up a possibility. We'll see... ;)
Damn. This channel needs more subscribers. I'd like to hear your viewpoints on the mechanics of bullet hells.
Subbed and looking forward to more content!
Thank you! Perhaps, in a future video, as I do want to talk about game mechanics more -- it's sorta my main passion in gamedev. It's just finding the 'angle' to approach it in a video, if that makes sense? :)
Boy, this game looks amazing!
Visually it reminds me of older PopCap games (good stuff).
Peggle was my JAM back in the day, so thank you!
No one:
Me: *pew pew pew* hahaha
Really, really, REALLY amazing game and perfect devlog to go with it. You’re on a roll, can’t wait to see what comes next!
Thank you! PEW PEW PEW!
Link is in the discription.
*Looks ind discription"
Aaah Shit here we go again.
ARGH, I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING. One moment, please. ;)
@@PensnPixels XD
0:55 about that...
Heh. Not only was I not keen on the theme, but I had to take some recovery time due to work on Quickly, Quackley!'s release exacerbating an old hand injury. Oh dear! XD
@@PensnPixels I know J! I'm Dave/Galse on Discord.
10/10 would laugh as people try to kill me again.
That laugh was AMAZING. That half-hour recording session we had added SO MUCH to the game, I am eternally thankful.
Cool
The animal useage reminds me of Agony.
The Amiga shmup with the owl? If so, pretty high praise! That's a BEAUTIFUL game right there!
Wow
Hope you won this jam :)! It is a really good one, should be on steam already i gues :)? Such Pieces should not only be used for a game jam..... its about 2 years - whats up - whats new :)!?
My partner and I are definitely looking into making a full-size version of this jam game which *should* be heading to Steam when we've done it. A longer-term project though, these things take time, especially when you're not crunching like mad people over a week-long jam. ;)
Yoo what engine did you use for this game???
Did you use Unity for this game?
yesuhhhh
ALL OF THE YES
No way this is so cool! I remember participating in this Game Jam and also making my first bullet hell game. I've been continuing to work on it for 2 years now and it's close to releasing as a full game! I would much appreciate it if you checked out the demo and gave me some feedback. There's also a trailer on my channel you can watch! Thanks your submission was awesome!
what did harry use to create the art photoshop ?
ProCreate! That's how I got the timelapse stuff from him!
What is the game that is shown at the beginning of the video?
That would be Death Smiles, probably my favourite Bullet Hell game.
Ey up jay
EY UP, ummmm, MORTAL. ;)
@@PensnPixels its cronch
Nice little Game but I like the Style of @ more.
The style of... what? XD
@@PensnPixels The Style of the Graphics.
Ohhhh, I understand now. Thank you! Although I won't rule out another collaboration with Harry at some point in the future (probably for the full version of Maledictus), I will also continue drawing my own games. :)
@@PensnPixels I didn't mean it like that.
@@PensnPixels Sorry i am stupid i thought i pasted Quickly, Quackley in because i can't write the name properly
your both banned
;)
What software did you use to make the game?
Construct 3! Art was mainly done in ProCreate (by my partner) with a few things (the stuff that I did personally) made in GIMP.