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Starr Mazer: DSP is Back in Action!
Greetings Pilots!
Our new logo. It has WINGS MADE OUT OF GUNS! It's been a long and [strike]complicated[/strike] interesting road, but Starr Mazer: DSP is back in action with a new and improved engine, new gameplay mechanics, new pilots, new ship parts, new enemy designs, new bosses and an overflowing trove of things to come! We've got a new dev team in SubPixel Studios, a new distribution partner in Digital Tribe, a new art team in DieMango, Valery Kim and domino99 and new music & sounds from SIXIXIX, Parker Luis Can't Lose and Hunter Jacob Pierce. And, of course, Imagos Softworks is in the pilot seat, pointing at aliens to shoot and space gates to blast through.
The ravaged capital city of Thearsa CP-IX has never looked [strike]worse[/strike] better! We're celebrating our progress with the first of a series of regular updates to the Starr Mazer: DSP Early Access Public Build. We'll be releasing regular updates as progress is made as well as monthly milestone updates around this time every month until launch. Each of these updates will bring us closer to release, and you'll get to be a part of the journey along with us, as our Early Access supporters! We're aiming high with this update, and intend to aim even higher from this point forward. We aim to impress. We may not hit every time, but our guns are hot and we're firing wildly!
These guys use their mouths to THROW ASTEROIDS AT YOUR FACE! This new build includes:
Look at all of that FUTURE STUFF FOR FUTURE BUILDS! By the end of this Early Access period, we will have 9 procedurally assembled stages, each with a boss fight (6 mid-bosses, 3 giant mega-bosses), multiple alien species, thousands of new pilot/ship part/weapon/stat combinations and loads of revamped music/sound. More than that, though, we will have fought our way through the fire and succeeded against indomitable odds, just as the DSP MkI Pilots of the UNFP. And we couldn't have done it without you. Thank you for joining us on this journey! If you want to chat with us directly, join us on our discord server! Now, grab the new build and GET BACK MEOWT THERE, PILOT! - Don Thacker, Imagos Softworks
[ 2019-06-17 16:50:07 CET ] [ Original post ]
Thrusters Engage!
Greetings Pilots!
Our new logo. It has WINGS MADE OUT OF GUNS! It's been a long and [strike]complicated[/strike] interesting road, but Starr Mazer: DSP is back in action with a new and improved engine, new gameplay mechanics, new pilots, new ship parts, new enemy designs, new bosses and an overflowing trove of things to come! We've got a new dev team in SubPixel Studios, a new distribution partner in Digital Tribe, a new art team in DieMango, Valery Kim and domino99 and new music & sounds from SIXIXIX, Parker Luis Can't Lose and Hunter Jacob Pierce. And, of course, Imagos Softworks is in the pilot seat, pointing at aliens to shoot and space gates to blast through.
Hitting the Ground, Punching the Sky
The ravaged capital city of Thearsa CP-IX has never looked [strike]worse[/strike] better! We're celebrating our progress with the first of a series of regular updates to the Starr Mazer: DSP Early Access Public Build. We'll be releasing regular updates as progress is made as well as monthly milestone updates around this time every month until launch. Each of these updates will bring us closer to release, and you'll get to be a part of the journey along with us, as our Early Access supporters! We're aiming high with this update, and intend to aim even higher from this point forward. We aim to impress. We may not hit every time, but our guns are hot and we're firing wildly!
A Taste of Things to Come
These guys use their mouths to THROW ASTEROIDS AT YOUR FACE! This new build includes:
- Entirely new game engine!
- New level art for Act I!
- Numerous SFX upgrades!
- Improved gamepad support!
- New visual shaders!
- Improved carbomite effects!
- Player ship thruster effects!
- Ridiculously reduced load times!
- Carbomite shockwaves!
- Improved Infinite Salvo!
- Improved enemy death animations!
- New particle effects!
- Improved collision accuracy!
- Tweaked spawning locations for hit FX/particles!
- New sound engine!
- Dramatic slo-mo player death effect!
- THAT AWESOME NEW LOGO!
- Reprocessed pilot VO!
- START button pausing!
- Improved sprite rendering!
- Improved/additional explosions & explosion effects!
- Screen shake fixes!
- Improved player death AOE!
- Improved UI!
- Fancy new pilot portraits!
- Improved procedural construction engine!
- New MID-BOSSES!
- Updated Asteroid Chuckers!
- Tons of bug fixes!
- So! Much! More!
The Future is Fire
Look at all of that FUTURE STUFF FOR FUTURE BUILDS! By the end of this Early Access period, we will have 9 procedurally assembled stages, each with a boss fight (6 mid-bosses, 3 giant mega-bosses), multiple alien species, thousands of new pilot/ship part/weapon/stat combinations and loads of revamped music/sound. More than that, though, we will have fought our way through the fire and succeeded against indomitable odds, just as the DSP MkI Pilots of the UNFP. And we couldn't have done it without you. Thank you for joining us on this journey! If you want to chat with us directly, join us on our discord server! Now, grab the new build and GET BACK MEOWT THERE, PILOT! - Don Thacker, Imagos Softworks
[ 2019-06-17 16:50:07 CET ] [ Original post ]
Starr Mazer: DSP
Imagos Softworks
Developer
AGM Playism
Publisher
2016-08-26
Release
Game News Posts:
26
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support
🎮 Full Controller Support
Mostly Positive
(224 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
Public Linux Depots:
- Linux Content [174.82 M]
Starr Mazer: DSP is a side-scrolling shoot’em up in the same vein as classics like Gradius and Lords of Thunder with a roguelike twist on the traditional lives/continues system. Players take control of a squadron of DSP pilots with different ships, weapon loadouts and voices. Your mission is to battle through nine frantic arcade levels, countless waves of enemies, 3 powerful bosses, and take down the G’ell Super Ship in a single run.
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The citizens of Thersa-CPIX are at war and we’re not sending one hero to the fight, we’re sending EVERYONE!
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Starr Mazer: DSP was born as a passion project during the development of its bigger brother, the point-and-click SHMUP hybrid, Starr Mazer. Originally, Imagos Softworks teamed up with veteran development studio Pixeljam to craft a demo environment to test weapons, enemy attack patterns and space combat. When both teams couldn’t stop playing the single demo level they designed, they knew they were onto something very, very special.
Shortly after, Don Thacker, Alex Mauer and Miles Tilmann started working tirelessly to crack the code and turn the little demo into a unique fully featured experience. After playing Rogue Legacy, Don was inspired to craft an elegant roguelike game loop to add a refreshing update to the shooter genre. Thus the DSP MkI Corp was founded and a perilous battle that pitted thousands of pilots against the G’ell invasion was born!
A unique game mechanic alone isn’t enough to be memorable. So to bring the world to life in stunning pixel art, the team enlisted Starr Mazer art director Maximo V. Lorenzo, lead artist Kirk Barnett and background artist Christopher Pariano. Alex Mauer, composer of Starr Mazer, also joins with an intense synthwave soundtrack to round out the experience and take what was once a single demo test level into a fully realized shoot’em up experience!
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Hi there! It’s Dan, Playism’s senior content manager. Starr Mazer as a whole is a project I’m very close to and I wanted to say a few words about it.
A major cornerstone of my video game experiences growing up was sitting in front of the TV playing hours of Life Force, R-Type and Gradius. What enraptured me about these games were the stories they told in their boxart, levels, the kinds of enemies that appeared, the bosses and the way they implied humanity’s imminent extinction. These were stories that not only came alive in my imagination, but that were also clearly communicated in pixel art that was not always so clear. Despite low-fi graphics, the experience was profoundly hi-fidelity.
It was a trend that I didn’t feel followed the genre as a whole. Cave took SHMUP story-telling to new heights with Mushihimesama and Death Smiles; Treasure did so with Radiant Silver Gun and Ikaruga. However, I felt the stories in those games came across quite differently as my attention was drawn toward moments and bullets rather than stages and bosses. Impressive as they were, my focus was simply on other things—like not dying horribly.
As I came to know Don’s work in film, such as his shorts and feature length film, Motivational Growth, I understood where Starr Mazer: DSP’s strengths in story came from. And talking with him about classic and modern games I finally understood how Imagos Softworks and Pixeljam were seamlessly blending modern roguelike designs with old school, horizontal, SHMUP story-telling.
Starr Mazer: DSP will be my first personal experience with Early Access and I’m thrilled to see where this adventure goes. I can’t wait to undertake it with you.
The citizens of Thersa-CPIX are at war and we’re not sending one hero to the fight, we’re sending EVERYONE!
- Levels - Battle through nine Levels, across three intense arcade-style bullet-filled acts! Take the fight from the surface of war torn Thersa-CPIX to the Space Gate and up to the heart of the G’ell Super Ship; the Adamastor!
- Recruit - Recruit a diverse team of humans, aliens, and a dog! Hand pick your DSP team before every mission using their weapons, stats and battle order to your advantage!
- SK:ORE - The fight never ends with SK:ORE! There are no game overs in this battle! Use your SK:ORE from fallen enemies and Carbomite pickups to purchase a new squadron of pilots!
- Unlock Pilots - Discover legendary pilots! Give your squadron an edge in battle with unique legendary pilots like Slimo, Bunny Killmaster, Don Thacker and many more!
- Power Up - Power up your weapons for maximum destruction! Collect Carbomite from fallen foes to power up your primary fire or to fuel your super weapon!
Starr Mazer: DSP was born as a passion project during the development of its bigger brother, the point-and-click SHMUP hybrid, Starr Mazer. Originally, Imagos Softworks teamed up with veteran development studio Pixeljam to craft a demo environment to test weapons, enemy attack patterns and space combat. When both teams couldn’t stop playing the single demo level they designed, they knew they were onto something very, very special.
Shortly after, Don Thacker, Alex Mauer and Miles Tilmann started working tirelessly to crack the code and turn the little demo into a unique fully featured experience. After playing Rogue Legacy, Don was inspired to craft an elegant roguelike game loop to add a refreshing update to the shooter genre. Thus the DSP MkI Corp was founded and a perilous battle that pitted thousands of pilots against the G’ell invasion was born!
A unique game mechanic alone isn’t enough to be memorable. So to bring the world to life in stunning pixel art, the team enlisted Starr Mazer art director Maximo V. Lorenzo, lead artist Kirk Barnett and background artist Christopher Pariano. Alex Mauer, composer of Starr Mazer, also joins with an intense synthwave soundtrack to round out the experience and take what was once a single demo test level into a fully realized shoot’em up experience!
Hi there! It’s Dan, Playism’s senior content manager. Starr Mazer as a whole is a project I’m very close to and I wanted to say a few words about it.
A major cornerstone of my video game experiences growing up was sitting in front of the TV playing hours of Life Force, R-Type and Gradius. What enraptured me about these games were the stories they told in their boxart, levels, the kinds of enemies that appeared, the bosses and the way they implied humanity’s imminent extinction. These were stories that not only came alive in my imagination, but that were also clearly communicated in pixel art that was not always so clear. Despite low-fi graphics, the experience was profoundly hi-fidelity.
It was a trend that I didn’t feel followed the genre as a whole. Cave took SHMUP story-telling to new heights with Mushihimesama and Death Smiles; Treasure did so with Radiant Silver Gun and Ikaruga. However, I felt the stories in those games came across quite differently as my attention was drawn toward moments and bullets rather than stages and bosses. Impressive as they were, my focus was simply on other things—like not dying horribly.
As I came to know Don’s work in film, such as his shorts and feature length film, Motivational Growth, I understood where Starr Mazer: DSP’s strengths in story came from. And talking with him about classic and modern games I finally understood how Imagos Softworks and Pixeljam were seamlessly blending modern roguelike designs with old school, horizontal, SHMUP story-telling.
Starr Mazer: DSP will be my first personal experience with Early Access and I’m thrilled to see where this adventure goes. I can’t wait to undertake it with you.
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