Black Hole - A Classic Arcade Dual-Stick Space Shooter - INDIEGOGO Crowdfunding start

[Rhellik]

Time for some more updates.
We got out first boss model done. He will remain nameless until our Indiegogo campaign finishes, in case a backer wants to name him.
He'll be dashing from side to side and aiming all of his turrets at you. But you can destroy some of his bullets with your secondary attack.


We also implemented a new feature into the game: The Hyperdefense. Using your hypercharge you can now
either use it for a devastating hyperattack or if things are a little bit too tight use it for your hyperdefense. Every ship has its own.

The Hunter can power up his cloaking device, hiding him from enemies and their attacks.
The Falchion can activate his time warp shield, slowing everything down in its area.
The Eagle can charge his nano robots onboard to repair the damage done to the ship over time.

[nujuat]

Chaoz Fantasy on repeat?

Should be good!!!

[elizabitcrusher]

Checked it out because I was curious about the music and sound and, shoot. It looks freaking great.
Freaking fantastic throw-back. I don't even get that into games that prove how much I suck with agility and shooting, but I would totally play this.
Just sayin'.
Nice work@

[Rhellik]

Thanks @elizabitcrusher

We now are working on the rest of the music in the game and we got a small preview to show of all 4 music tracks for the different worlds. Enjoy!

[Hanneskitz]

Wow... nice music... and great game. Will you support multiple players (4-Players) for the final game in June?

[Rhellik]

Multiplayer IS something we are aiming for. Depending how far we get with the rest of the game we might be able to implement multiplayer for June already. Otherwise we would include it in the next release version which would follow soon after.
We are not quite sure how good co-op would work with 4 players. Ideally the most balanced would probably be 2 players, but we think the idea of playing such a game with 4 players would be awesome, although chaotic. But it's worth a try.

[Rhellik]

For the final stretch of our Indiegogo campaign we have released a new playable demo version.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bl...878?c=activity

This demo will only be playable as long as the campaign is running.
The game is still in production so not everything in completely done, yet.
Please try it out and leave any comments you have here or on Indiegogo.

[pete123]

Awesome fun.

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ahhhh...space ninja stars.

Ok. One more game and then I'm definitely getting back to work.

[Rhellik]

Last chance! Only 46 hours left for our campaign:
http://igg.me/at/blackhole

Feel free to play the preview demo linked there.

[Rhellik]

Well, we're back! We received our OUYA last week and got Black Hole running on it. Sadly, the system isn't quite as strong as we anticipated. We have to heavily optimise it for OUYA and cut back on some effects.
It's still a long ways before the game is finished, BUT we want to get a pure playable demo out as soon as possible, so we can do some testing and get some feedback.

The demo will be stand alone (like "a bit of a fist of awesome"), will be free to play and won't have anything to unlock.
It will feature all 3 player ships and about the first 5 levels of the game.

The final release version of the game will arrive in the OUYA store seperately and contain all 4 worlds, which can be unlocked with a pay-once-unlock-all option.
(Or should we continually update the demo until it's the release version? So people who enjoyed the demo can just update the game? Don't know what would be better.)