it's... amazing... and pixelated style is nice too 
Thank you it is nice that you like it !
Stahl, what you could do is something like in space, and make different layers, so they move. i don't think that it will be the hard part for you
Yeah something like space or abstract worlds would really be a nice idea of which i thought yet... scrolling and with different layers too... but i don`t agree with you that it would not hard for me
  i have really no inspiration on that issue at the moment.... but will keep on tracking and mind your words... okay lets say i would maybe not be that hard pixelwork so i agree partially
That looks nice, can't wait for something playable. Last I heard though, fire, water, air etc. weren't fictional things!
Thank you i will send you a message when it is finished .. or you just keep following this threadÂ
I agree with your element issue. you are right. the reason why i wrote fictional was only because light, darkness and chaos are fictional so i must correct my self here.
Holy poo..... Make sure you announce to us when it's on man!!!
Thanks for holy pooing on my thread!
i will send you a message... or as i said: you just keep following the thread O:-)
Looks nice. Just remember, don't skimp out on the frames. It's definitely worth the time.
And...good luck. When do you estimate finishing it?
A g r e e d!! but.... which time are you speaking of ? i don´t understand..
aauuuh i can`t say.. i am SORRY.. i don`t know when it is finished but it will still take me a lot of time, work and effort to finish it!
Cool, pixel art style shooter. they're always fun 
yeah, like soldat i hope/thinkÂ
Really nice pixel art Your top blue ship looks very cool
Btw, make sure you add in huge explosions and lots of particles later on
Make sure you don't rush it aswell
Thanks a lot !
i see many like that blue ship!? here is a sheet were you might see how i did it:
i have no idea on the explosions but i think they will be as angular [ lol ] as the rest of the graphics XD and i promise i will add the mas you said !
no rush yeah i agree! i will take my time and struggle making a good job.... with looooots of time....
i appreciated your post so in addition here are some WIPS.
i will keep this topic alive through posting my progress.
this will be the "bomb" animation:
it moves over the screen and crushes everything. it will look like somethink entirely made of energy. it is just a crappy sketch but you might figure out..
this is anothr earth enemy. BTW: all enemies in the earth elvel will be bosses. that means there are only few ships but they are big and not the players best friend at all ! ..
this is finished but:
... i will recreate it several times and completely different because i still need some very small and simple, a-bit-bird-alike enemies for all levels... will show you examples later
this has still its wrong colours and is also only a better sketch:
it is a air-enemy and will updated soonish (did i mention i will take my time XD ? )
tho' i said there are only bosses in the earth level this is one "normal" enemy.... BUT it is summoned by the last boss as reinforcemends in this level so it doesn`t count.... O:-)
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because i want to be nice to everyone and was too stupid to post further descriptions in the beginning of this thread i now paste a text about what this game is about and why the ships look so ... different*cough*....
First of i need to explain what those "enemies" are because i did the mistake of saying... those would BE ships. well i just CALL them ships: those are no real ships but
spiritual reflections for an abstract art game. Me and some others just call them "ships" because they are based on the idea of ships for a shmup.
Lets say they are some abstract "ghosts" based on a dynamic and/or weird ship idea.
So they don`t really fly or anything tho they are normally moving in a shmup as enemies. There is also no "space" where they "fly" in [ THO I AM THINKING OF CHANGING THIS ]. They are shown moving in an also abstract world using abstract backgrounds like on this mock up of mine.
Somewhat in this style. abstract drawing done by me called "the cold void".
Sorry that i don`t have any kind of animation mockup but i am working on a one level demo in which you can see the most of the above shown enemies in action.
There are known problems with the readability of the ships on this background. As you can see i also added a few finished ships.
They shoot their bullet-patterns simply by summoning bullets around their body, but also there are rare situations were those bullets spawn from designated parts of the "ships".
They are also static forms often moving fast over the screen. Those who stand for a longer time on the screen will not be animated except of performing a HIT-animation when you hit one of them with your shot(+ there will be a destruction animation for each of them).
In addition i have a finished playership which is somewhat very different from most playerships in normal shmups everybody knows:
Of course only the small zone in the middle is the hitzone and as well i am thinking of letting those large wings slightly disappear at least while the player is into a difficult labyrinth of enemy-bullets and/or somewhat trapped in any other kind of large amount of those bullets. the main thought behind this is that those large wings might puzzle the players mind while dodging bullets in a manicshmup(dodonpachi is a very good example of a manic shmup).
As i want to avoid misunderstandings on what are ships and what is BG here are the ships i added to the above showed BG:
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