Damn, we need to get back here more often. This place is nicer than the other one. With that said, I've been playing Gunvein these days, and what a freaking great game. Top 10 shmups ever material, easily.

SCHILDMAID MX by @hitpstudio.bsky.social is coming to Nintendo Switch! A great indie shmup with an interesting take on shields and scoring. They got some sweet art on the new box. Check it out on other platforms also 👱‍♀️🛡️

Dracula frames I made for the mockup project. I recommend opening the image to see the details as it's very big. The very first frame (top left) was made 10 years ago and I posted the mockup project almost 10 years later to the day. #pixelart

You can get Sophstar with a 40% discount during the Steam Summer Sale. If you still haven't , it's your opportunity to get it !

Physical versions of Sophstar for the Xbox, PS5 and Switch are with a nice discount at the Red Art Games site. If you want to get Physical, head over there!

Physical editions of Sophstar are available AGAIN for the Switch and PS5, with the Switch one on a 30% discount for the next 3 days, so HURRY TO GRAB YOURS! Head to the Red Art Games store to get yours. We know a lot people here wanted this :)

Does anyone know if Shikigami No Shiro 1 and 2 give extends? I know 3 doesn't. I also know 3 was made by Skonec and not Alfa System, and I think they never give extends on any of their shmups.

If I can beat a bullet pattern *once* in our game, it means it's doable and I don't need to tweak it anymore, right? :)

Damn, just found this screenshot taken *5* years ago. Does anyone recognize this?

Dice, dice everywhere! This is off-topic for our account. Sorry. #shmups . We make #shmups and #arcade games.

Working on the final boss of our next game.... every new pattern forces me to raise the max bullet limit the engine allows to exist. Fun, fun, fun times. :)

Part of our team having dinner yesterday. From Left to side front: Gustavo Araújo (Coding) - Helder Araujo (3D Graphics) back: Natasha Mendes (Art Direction/Concept Art), Rafael Lima (Coding/Game Design)

Do you like the system we use in Sophstar, where new credits are unlocked as you finish plays of the game? Or do you prefer free credits from day one? We do like our unlock credits system a lot.

Man, I got to play Cycle Chase H-5 for the first time this weekend. What an awesome shmup! Why people don't talk more about it? It's really on the easy side - I 1cc both the Basic and Advance mode on my first try - but it's really a lot of fun!

We are glad to announce that we were in talk with TGL for a while now, and we can now reveal: We are curttely developing a sequel to the all time classic Steam Hearts. Titled: "Hearts 2: Steam Harder" With 18 new characters, It will be released Q1/26. Stay tuned for more news.

Does anyone enjoy Sega CD Silpheed? It has been a LONG time since I played it, but I have memories of its atmosphere being so awesome with the FMV backgrounds and the soundtrack with radio chatter and everything. And those flat polygons look great. Gameplay was a lot of fun too.

Well.. IT DIED THREE TIMES, AND WAS REBORN TWICE.

Yesterday had Unity crashing randomly at 2:00am. Opened it up.... project corrupted, none of the objects could find their scripts, the Assembly-CSharp file was somehow missing. Thank God for Version Control. Went to bed, rolled back to previous version today :) easy fix.

Love those pictures. 2019, our programmer's wife took those 2 pictures, after he saw a completely bastardized Daytona USA machine in a mall and thought "I want to play that", hadn't played it in ages. Finished 8th :P Also surprised I wasn't rocking the long hair. Decided to fully drop it in 2023

Wait... this game has just.. THREE STAGES? I always liked this game, but it's so absurdly hard. Maybe 3 stages is enough, hehe. I remember first time I got to the floppy boss, it was amazing. I never beat stage 2, but that was ages ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTyd...

While doing Sophstar, our team was really impressed with the programmer for 2 things: 1) His deep knowledge about shmups, 2) How quickly he fixes bugs About 1)... 😎 About 2) My code is a mess, dated and unoptimized but BOY AM I FAST or what? :P ...

By the way, you can get Sophstar on a 70% sale right now at the Playstation Store, don't miss it!

Everytime I see a post somewhere with people asking recommendations for shmups, I think about saying "Hey, Sophstar is kinda nice, you know?" but I always feel it will be cringe as hell. But... almost everytime someone else does it. It makes me so proud. It feels like a dream.

Cyberpunk 2077 is a great videogame, but it makes a lot hard to find content for the TTRPG Cyberpunk Red. (They were released togehter, I know) CP:RED is a prequel to CP77, and it's rapidly becoming my fav TTRPG. It seems they are planning an update so you can play on the CP77 settings.

Sometimes I need to "teach" our junior guys here that players usually don't notice a lot of stuff mid-action. "But this ship has no cannons, how their bullets are coming up from its hull?" Mate, Cave shmups have bullets spawning from thin air, no one says a thing. :P

Has anyone ever noticed you can use the mouse to shoot and switch polarity on the Steam version of Ikaruga? Most importanly, does anyone ever used this? You can't use the mouse to move, but you can play using WASD + Mouse. We have this in our current game, didn't know Ikaruga also did it.

The shmup we are currently developing, I have the feeling it may be the shmup with the smallest hitbox ever. Mostly because the game runs at a higher resolution than, say, Sophstar at 240x320, then a 2x2 hitbox is absurdly small. It makes for some fun routing and "lucky" dodges.

Man, people usually talk with Rafael Lima here, people sometimes even refer this account as "Rafa". But While Banana Bytes is "mine", can't say it's just me. Mário Santos, Saulo Santiago and Natasha Mendes (who joined more recently) are a big part of our work. I couldn't do it without them.

I never missed that. I do use it in Unity but I could perfectly live without it. And you do have the "Draw GUI" event in Gamemaker but it's not exactly an UI Layer (I use it for a lot of stuff, rarely do draw UI :D) But so many people have asked for it for so many years, so I guess now it's there:)

... someone in our staff asked our director (me) these days "Do you think a developer will always do a bad game at some point?" "Yes" "What do you do then?" "You start working on your next game"

Doing your second game when your first one was generally well received is pretty scary. But I just thought doing your second game when your first was was NOT well received gotta be kinda scary too, in a different way... alas....

I also have a better keyboard now. I've always loved the wired Microsoft 200 Keyboard and used it for over a decade. But when I tried this mechanical one, I instantly fell in love. My table ALWAYS has too many mugs... and I have recently played chess with someone from our testing team. :D

This is the main place where Banana Bytes games are coded. Since we now have more than one programmer, not everything is being made in this office. But yeah, it's the main office of Banana Bytes. Oh, and that chair has been replaced for a better one, heh :D

Yeah, and it was made by @junkisakuraba.bsky.social :D

Our programmer/game designer taught at a high school. In his spare time, he ran a voluntary project to teach game development. This was the 2013 class. Two of these students worked on Sophstar, another one is working on our current project, and at least three others are working as programmers today.

I'm still get surprised when I see people using Microsoft Office. I (our programmer) used to teach Microsoft Office 10 years ago (among other stuff). But on my computer, I haven't installed it for probably 20 years or more.

Man, it's awesome to work with committed, talented people who are able to do the extra step and deliver their stuff on time.

3 years ago, we had a party a week before launching Sophstar, to celebrate its launch. Reportedly the game coder 1cc the game while drunk, and we had to delete its score from the online leaderboard. Heh. Can't post more pictures because people weren't on their best behaviour that night.

Did you know they made a real life sized model of the Dumont ship from Sophstar? Below it's our programmer when he used to have long hair. (And the first part of this post is a joke)

I just noticed some accounts that dissapeared from that other place are very active here. Damn, we need to (re?)build our (very small) following here.

Everytime I see this case where *one* failure of a studio means it gets closed, I remember the Tiertex days. Tiertex was doing mobile games in the late 2000s (Maybe even in 10s?) - Also I'll never forgive Activision, you don't close a studio after they make a banger like "Blur".

Man, we need to use this more. That other place really needs to die.

So, shmups heh? Did you guys know our CEO/Game Designer/Programmer is a moderator on the shmups dot com forum for more than 20 years now? What are your favourite shmups? Don't need to mention Sophstar, we know it is on your list. :)

So, how long it will take up until we have 100 followers? :P We will keep posting here, and I hate Elão Moska but, damn it.... it was our best social media.

We will never make a shmup with 30 playable ships again, damn it, it's a lot of work. - Nice that we can say the darnest things here, no one is following us :( Hehe.

Aqui estamos nós. And here we are