Nightmerica is a game about fighting your fears, and the monsters that live inside your head. In your boundless imagination, pretty much everything is out to get you - and it's only a matter of time until you're overwhelmed. The game is a retro styled platformer, consisting of arena based combat against hoards of varied and slightly terrifying enemies. It also features randomly generated guns, and mods to change their behaviour on the go. The full game will feature several maps and game modes (possibly) including; basic survival, defend the base, procedurally generated arenas and boss rush. The game is basically trying to capture the feeling of frantic fast paced action, combined with very satisfying combat and platforming controls.

Post news Report RSS Nightmerica Devlog: 30/08/12

- New effect: Heal, when a bullet hits an enemy you will receive a health boost - New effect: Random, every bullet fired has a different effect at random. It's pretty awesome. - Fix: Health is now capped at a maximum - New guns in store using new effects - New upgrades store where you can purchase upgrades and unlocks that aren't just about guns - New special weapon; meteor strike

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So, we're actually getting close to feature complete for one arena! Need to implement upgrades, more enemies (can you ever have enough?) and some special stages. But then it's all gonna be balancing, then more maps!

Features Added Today:

  • New effect: Heal, when a bullet hits an enemy you will receive a health boost
  • New effect: Random, every bullet fired has a different effect at random. It's pretty awesome.
  • Fix: Health is now capped at a maximum
  • New guns in store using new effects
  • New upgrades store where you can purchase upgrades and unlocks that aren't just about guns
  • New special weapon; meteor strike
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Gypopothomas
Gypopothomas

Hey. That's a mighty fine lookin' game. I really wanna give this alpha a go, but I keep getting an error saying it can't load 'joystick2.mfx'. Any ideas what could be going on?

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vivavolt

Ah yeah, that's a problem we resolved (I think) by including some DLL's now. But if you want to fix it you need to get a DirectX 9.0 update: Microsoft.com

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Gypopothomas
Gypopothomas

Aha! Thanks. Yeah! This is brilliant. Love the graphics n' sound effects. I'll be tracking this one.

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