UBERMOSH Vol.5 News

How personal can a game be?
During the latest months, I was working on better ways to program procedural content frameworks, "organic-like" AI behaviors and ways to insert physics elements to the gameplay. My production flow is pretty experimental and my games are created to test the hypothesis.
The procedural content generation framework started with the rocks formations and enemy placement on the first UBERMOSH. Trip to Vinelands came with the "seeds" concept, where variable levels were chosen and micro variations could happen in each level/map. It was improved on TTV2 and more variability could be generated without severe spikes on game difficulty. WARPZONE DRIFTER is the most recent version of the "seeds" framework with a very solid procedural execution, that evolution now allows the production of richer content for the next projects. The organic-like AI is a mix of a "fuzzy logic" and the "taking various and various elements" before object reaction, it started with the enemies flanking on my first games, got a swarm version on SWARMRIDERS (that evolved to UBERMOSH SWARM) and now it has a tentacle version of it, created for the latest project. These AI developing steps are very important to create a "fluid" enemy behavior that I keep improving. Physics elements inserted on gameplay kinda work as a simulator, and that player's piloting skills can be translated into the real world (for drone piloting, for example). Those 3 elements were the core of WARPZONE DRIFTER, a retro-arcade breakless drifter game, that I am proudly presenting you now. A very personal game made from all graphics to guitar recordings by the same person (that can be seen in a frame or two when you survive full time before extraction). Many thanks for the support, I hope you enjoy the game as much as I enjoyed making it.
More stuff soon, you can follow the steps here:
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/waltermachado

Howdy folks, it's been a long time, ...it took over a year since Vol. 5 to process all players gameplay feedback and ideas, think the next step of UBERMOSH lore, create the new content, balance and playtest everything.
Checking the software clocks, UBERMOSH series got 3616 hours of Game Maker Studio and 684 hours of Black Ink for half of the production time. The other fraction was spent on audio, not just recording and playing, the journey for the correct timbre has a fascinating complexity. For example, the UBERMOSH fuzz timbre uses 2 matching BC109 transistors in a fuzz circuit, matching with a BC549 before the clipping. The new gun sounds and the shredder uses an analog delay self-cycling before overdrive to create the "energy" sounds... not mentioning the different slide materials tested to match the desired vibe for the track (a blue ceramic "Moonshine Slides" 246 won).

UBERMOSH:SANTICIDE
Each volume added something new to the table, Black brought Brainclap and the Blue gun, Vol. 3 came with endless pit and the swarm, Wraith inserted the Manastrike, Vol. 5 gave Dual strike, Shield and Melter. Santicide comes with way more enemies (with more cosmetic differences) better AI, more shielded enemies that will cover the smarter thugs, a stronger, faster and even smarter enemy with a new usable gun, you can choose the Vol.5 Dual Strike or starting with a Single Strike that will climb to Double and Triple (triggered by time) or go with the Single Strike + Shredder, a slow-moving time triggered energy attack that counters shield.
You have the Classic mode being able to be changed (without resetting scores) to Hardboiled (more challenge, more scoring opportunities) and Santicide (a mode aimed for the veterans, with its own Santicide Achievements).
By the end of the month I will be able to launch it, you can follow some of my production updates here: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/waltermachado
Many many thanks for the support, see you soon.

Howdy folks, I keep revisiting all the games I launched adding compatibility updates when needed, performance updates when possible and music every time I find a new beat that fits the game universe. UBERMOSH OST started with 7 tracks, has 15 now and it keeps expanding. Today I launched SWARMRIDER OMEGA OST, with the heavier and faster track versions of the classic SWARMRIDERS OST with 2 new tracks "Combustor" and "Trespass", Combustor goes following the lowtunned 180/360 bpm tracks of the OMEGA versions and Trespass aims for a microtonal texture experience. The classic SWARMRIDERS got the ULTAKAAR microtonal track a few time ago and the MORTALITY track can be found inside UBERMOSH OST folder since the Vol.5 launch. I am still working on more stuff and excited to show it as soon as possible.
Thousands of thanks for the support, Steam recommendations, Youtube videos, press reviews and hub feedback. It is hard to express how glad I am to have the luck of sharing this game experience with such nice audience.
Hope you like the new content. See you soon.

Howdy folks, half year separates the last 2 volumes of the UBERMOSH series. A story and gameplay that I have been fortunate to make with you, the amazing UBERMOSH community.
I make a serious effort to collect the data in every reccomendation, review, gameplay video and hub topic to translate that to gameplay and design hypotheses, that are tested, store or discarded and some make it to the next volume, with the proper adjustments to fit the universe progression. The protagonist gets more powerfull, develops new psyonic skills and at the same time the antagonists get more agressive and coordinate better in combat.
The first volume had 3 gameplay escalating stages:1- you try survive and get your first gun, 2- you hunt the stronger enemies to get weapon advantage, 3- with the best gun in hands you change your posture to sweep the map pushing up the score. More elements were inserted on each new volume to empower agression/timing behaviours. On Vol.5 the Blade Saint can copy every physical attack, allowing you to shoot and move your aim to hit another enemy with the cloned attack, deflect bullets in both directions or correct a missing attack moving your aim. A fraction of second separates both attacks. The Melter/Shield can be used to boost your agression and resilience... Melter is more on the pro active side and Shield will trigger not distracting you from your strategy. Classic mode got more hardboiled and Hardoilded mode got even more intense.
Thank you for all the support and I hope you enjoy the next hour in the pits of UBERMOSH.

PS: More music will enter UBERMOSH OST... I am still doing some mixing and it will be there on the next update.
////////////EDIT: Done, new stuff inside OST and "eggs" folder.