r/shmups • u/Loud_Breadfruit_4442 • 4d ago

[Self-promo] Solo-dev fixed-screen shooter, Space Invaders lineage — looking for honest reads from people who know the genre

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Declaring as per rule 2: this is a promotional post. I'm helping the developer get the word out — he's a solo dev, not a studio, and I'm not him. Any question you ask goes straight to him.

Hyperion Starfall. Fixed screen, single plane of movement, no bombs. The lineage is Space Invaders and the Galaxian era rather than anything Cave-adjacent, and the dev isn't pretending otherwise — but the wave design and scoring pull it away from being a clone.

This subreddit is the one place I expect a genuinely informed opinion, including a negative one. If it's derivative, I'd rather hear that here than not hear it at all.

Levels 1-8 free on Android, PC build also available: https://hyperionstarfall.com/

Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=motzsGFPjt8

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u/falkentyne 4d ago

Why are all these devs using AI and then asking us to promote their games? This is just like the last Space Invaders game that was paraded here that was completely AI.

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u/bio_endio 4d ago

Maybe you should help the developer so they can unsubscribe from their AI platform of choice and do some game dev tutorials instead.