Star Force: Genesis

A retro shmup game developed with a team of 5 at the h_da university.

The concept revolved around creating a story-heavy co-op shmup game with retrostyle limitations known from 80s and mainly 90s shmup games. Our focus was character dialogue and action-packed challenging gameplay. It aims to host 3 player co-op possibilities in the future.

Contribution

• Worldbuilding & Dialogue Writing
• Level Design & Maintenance
• Pixel Art illustrations and animations
• UI Design.

Some of the concept notes include german comments due to the team being native german.

The level that we produced was one of the final levels in the story, hence the player is expected to be familiar with most of the game mechanics at this point, but it's nonetheless quick for new players to figure out

The Team 

Simon Ressler - Art Direction & Level Design

Maren Schildmeyer - Artist

Steffi Schröder - Artist & Designer

Steffen Eichler - Programmer

Marius Schrod - Programmer & Artist

+ Sound & Music Designers Christoph Pracht and Marvin Trümper, and Concept Artist Daniel Garelik.

The game is free to download for Windows and Android here:

https://karmoq.com/Games/Star%20Force/StarForce.html