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Hi guys (n girls)!

I just discovered this forum so I thought I'd post something about my in development shmup, Hyperspace Invaders II.
Before this came HI0 and HII. (Both of which have demo versions!)

This time I mean to focus on a good audiovisual connection between soundtrack and gameplay. In other words I want the game to be synced to the beats.

Here's some shots of what I have so far (alpha footage!):







Enticing? Rather not? Comments are welcome

Looks fun, you should try using bright colors on a dark background, people love that.

Actually I'm tweaking away at about 20 different background effects, some dark, some brighter, most of them quite psychedelic and colorful. But then those should be used in less "intensive/overwhelming" game situations.
Lower-end machines will be able to disable them and simply show the scrolling starfield.