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TUMIKI Fighters Takes Free PC Shmups Higher

Posted by simoniker on from the superfly-guy dept.

drunken-sosage writes "ABA Games released a new freeware PC title a couple of days ago called TUMIKI Fighters. It's a horizontal shoot-em up that allows players to upgrade their ship by 'catching' destroyed enemy ships, resulting in your ship being a bigger target. However, that enemy ship's bullet pattern is added to your offensive arsenal. The author, Kenta Cho, is one of the crème of the crop auteurs of the crowded independent shmup genre - Slashdotters may already be familiar with ABA Games' other freeware PC shooters/utils such as BulletML, rRootage and Parsec47."

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  1. How much longer... by MMaestro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Until ABA Games gets bought up and these games are rereleased as a fully funded game for a major system? If ABA Games keeps this up, hes bound to gain some attention in the mainstream.

  2. BulletML by NonSequor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    BulletML doesn't seem to be a game but rather a language for describing the weapons in shoot-'em-ups (I'm not using that fucking abbreviation). This has to be one of the most bizarre ideas I've ever seen.

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  3. What the...? by dagbrown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The game description says:

    • OpenGL required
    • Simple DirectMedia Layer is used for the display handling.
    • Using SDL_mixer and Ogg Vorbis CODEC to play BGM/SE.

    So why the hell isn't there a Linux version?!

    1. Re:What the...? by Joe+Tie. · · Score: 3, Insightful

      While I can't speak for the author, it might just be lack of time or interest in getting the target enviroment set up. I've been doing the opposite, setting up a windows install to test code written in linux. For the sake of windows developers who might want to join up I wanted to make sure the code would compile as well as run there, and it's been a bit of an effort. The actual code itself didn't need much work, but getting the compiler, libraries, and everything else in an operating system I'm not totally comfortable working in proved more of a pain than I anticipated.

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    2. Re:What the...? by xenocide2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      yea, but theres a ton of those... nuts. The code is available under something akin to the BSD and GPL, maybe someone should place a sourceforge project, and submit to happypenguin for game of the month development!

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  4. Shmups? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wired Magazine called, they want their made up abbreviations back. It's "shoot-em-ups" or just plain "shooters". Nothing else.

  5. Re:Weird... by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was on Penny Arcade, which linked to Insert Credit. I'm not sure where the initial meme infection started.