Design: What about a musical shmup?

[Opa Opa]

There's Bit.Trip ...something. I forgot the title. It's pretty much a combo of a horizontal shooter and a music game.

edit: Bit.Trip Fate! That's the title.

[YoshiEgg25]

Wow, it's almost like everyone here forgot about Shmusicup.

[noiseredux]

Wow, it's almost like everyone here forgot about Shmusicup.

OMG Yosh this looks incredible. Thanks!

[YoshiEgg25]

Wow, it's almost like everyone here forgot about Shmusicup.

OMG Yosh this looks incredible. Thanks!

Yeah, there was a whole thread for it. Can't believe you missed it.

[Erik_Twice]

Music games and shoot-em-ups both have a lot of common in that they typically involve a ton of stuff coming at the player. IMO the big difference between Beatmania IIDX and a bullet hell is that in one you're trying to hit everything perfectly and in the other you're trying to dodge everything perfectly.

Exactly. I think that musical games can be thought as pattern games taken to the extreme. If you take a shmup and add infinitedly fast and precise movement you will end up with something very similar to a musical game but without the music.

There must be at least one decent game that mixes both things even if a great game is unlikely as we would have probably heard of it by now. I will try to check out Shmusicup and Beat Hazard try to think a bit about them.

I think that sooner or later we will get something that really works, probably after a pioneering game and it will be completely amazing.

I'm glad you find the concept interesting, I really appreciate it