Drill, a new shoot em up for your Dreamcast

Christluu · Post by **Christluu** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:14 am

Some french have begun to create a new shoot em up for Dreamcast.

http://forum.shmup.com/viewtopic.php?t=3525

http://shmup.com/

It looks like to ESP GaLuDa

Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:21 am

It's not like we needed another shooter but, oh well. The more DC releases, the better.

Gameholic · Post by **Gameholic** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:25 pm

Indeed.. Ah well that doesn't look too bad is it?

Nico0020 · Post by **Nico0020** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:33 pm

It's not like we needed another shooter

oh yes we do! hehe. sorry since ive been importing ive discovered a new favortie gaming type. lol.

*edit*
looked at this a bit, am i crazy or is it homebrew? read something about beta testing needed?

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:15 pm

Shooting games are one of my fav genres, so this is good news for me.
Kinda reminds me of Ikaruga a little bit, but that might just be me......

Christluu · Post by **Christluu** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:06 am

Yes, it's a homebrew game ^^

Segata Sanshiro · Post by **Segata Sanshiro** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:26 am

A very nice looking homebrew!!!!
A couple of questions come to mind:
- will it be free?
- will it be open source?

Christluu · Post by **Christluu** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:41 am

The developpers don't know yet but a video will be available very soon and a good demo will be available in September.

cube_b3 · Post by **cube_b3** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:50 am

scherzo wrote:It's not like we needed another shooter but, oh well. The more DC releases, the better.

agreed

Segata Sanshiro · Post by **Segata Sanshiro** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:15 am

We need every game possible on the DC, sure we all would love to see Spike-out, HOTD3, Gun Valkyrie, Crazy Taxi 3, Propeller Arena (official release) and all the other games they stole from us, but its not happening at the moment, so shooters are OK too. On the other hand shooters like IKARUGA, BD, Psyvariar, etc. are KICKA$$ and I'm very glad we have them.
We should respect every effort to bring new games to the Dreamcast, that shows that there are still a lot of people loving the DC. Especially indie game devvers that take the time and energy to do it for free (most cases).
And if by any chance we get this release as open source, we'll have another "engine" to keep producing games like we did with BOR.

HomerCIDAL · Post by **HomerCIDAL** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 1:29 pm

It looks homebrewed and if it is, it's not too bad! Certainly promising given the development environment forced upon the DC community...which is almost nothing (professionally speaking). I dunno why, but it sort of reminds me of Twinkle Star Sprites...that would be a good one to see on the system even though it's completely weird!

Sweater Fish · Post by **Sweater Fish** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:56 pm

HomerCIDAL wrote:It looks homebrewed and if it is, it's not too bad! Certainly promising given the development environment forced upon the DC community...which is almost nothing (professionally speaking). I dunno why, but it sort of reminds me of Twinkle Star Sprites...that would be a good one to see on the system even though it's completely weird!

Twinkle Star Sprites is already on the Dreamcast. SNK ported it to the system in 2000, I believe. Plus, the Neo CD version of the game works fine under emulation.

Drill looks way cool to me, too. I love shooters, but my one complaint is that there's not enough inventiveness in terms of the themes and settings they're built around. There used to be up until about 1997 or so and since then it's been all the samey-samey in terms of theme and all the attention has been focused on innovative systems. Why can't we have both? I can't tell what the system is like for Drill (or even if there is one to speak of), but I like the bugs and whatnot a whole lot.

...word is bondage...

Dreamcast4life · Post by **Dreamcast4life** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:14 am

I can't read french so I hope the ending isn't text other wise I would have to try to find a why to translate it.

Christluu · Post by **Christluu** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:59 am

There is a video here

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/radigo/goodies/drill-demo.avi

Arqueiro · Post by **Arqueiro** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:56 am

at this time, everything is welcome !

Imerion · Post by **Imerion** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:55 pm

Every new DC game is good. Also, I love shooters so I don't have enything against more of them comming. Variation would certainly be nice as well but as mentioned, anything is better than nothing.

HomerCIDAL · Post by **HomerCIDAL** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:09 pm

The video wasn't too bad and the only thing I saw that might really need improvement was the explosions. They just seemed a little lack-luster.

Nico0020 · Post by **Nico0020** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:12 pm

cant get the video to play for some reason. i see that it is a divx file, i have the latest version of winamp and divx. though it still wont run.

HomerCIDAL · Post by **HomerCIDAL** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:20 pm

Mine ran as an avi file

Segata Sanshiro · Post by **Segata Sanshiro** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:16 am

Nico0020 wrote:cant get the video to play for some reason. i see that it is a divx file, i have the latest version of winamp and divx. though it still wont run.

Play it with BSplayer or better yet, Mplayer classic