Xeno Crisis sur Mega Drive

Geistesblitz a écrit:Progress Update (January 2019)
Publié par Bitmap Bureau (créateur)

Hey everyone, sorry for the belated monthly update - it’s been another busy few weeks with lots of news to update you all with.

Mega Drive / Genesis Footage

Progress has been excellent on the Mega Drive version and we now have some new 2 player footage to show you with the game being played on a Genesis Mk1 machine. Apologies for Mike’s phone capture; we were hoping to do a split picture video alongside the OSSC footage but we had a few last minute issues with our SCART splitter!



As you can see in this footage, the Mega Drive version is already very similar to the modern console version. The core optimization work has now been completed and we’re pleased to say it’s running at a solid 60 FPS even with 2 players firing away and hordes of enemies attacking! The last few weeks have seen the key areas of development and technically difficult aspects of the Mega Drive version completed (three of the boss battles resulted in 0, 3, 7 VRAM tiles left respectively!).

We’ve got a few enemy behaviours and boss battles still to complete and then we’ll be onto gameplay balancing, refinements and QA testing ahead of release. We expect to be in the QA testing phase by our next update and starting to ramp up for release. Please note if you pre-ordered on BackerKit before we moved over to our new shop (https://shop.bitmapbureau.com) then you may get an order lockdown notification shortly as we process any outstanding payments ahead of release.

We also hope to have a quick revisit to the Dreamcast version (and if time the Neo Geo version) in the next couple of weeks to ensure that the code base is kept more or less in-line with the Mega Drive version. There’s never enough time to do everything but we also hope to squeeze in some testing of the Mega Drive version on our Mister FPGA.

Modern PC/Console Trailer

The modern platforms are progressing through certification and as part of that process we’ve had to put together a trailer, so we thought it would be a good idea to share it with you! The video does show some of the stages and enemies you’ll encounter in the later parts of the game though, so you may wish to avoid watching it entirely - we’ll leave that up to you...



Neo Geo

Anyone who has pre-ordered the Neo Geo version will no doubt be interested to know that we recently received the first prototypes for the MVS PCBs (CHA/PROG). We’re pleased to report (slightly to our surprise) that the first revisions have worked as intended. The boards are currently being put through various tests on a wide range of MVS devices. The prototype AES PCBs are expected to be ordered in the next week or two; we hope they will work out as well as the MVS ones.

We’re making really good progress with the sourcing AES/MVS plastic shells, our MVS mold design is also complete and we’re waiting on some molding quotes for comparison to potential suppliers.

If you ordered the Collector’s Edition for Neo Geo then you will receive a survey in the next couple of weeks to confirm how you wish your hostage name to appear in-game, as well as one or two other details. We’ll also try to confirm serial number allocations for those that requested a particular serial where possible.

So that’s it for this month - the end is definitely in sight with regards to the Mega Drive version, and things are progressing well on other fronts. We hope you enjoyed the update and we’re sure we’ll have more good news to share in the next one!

bladerunner a écrit: et tu peux donner le nom que tu veux à l'otage

Flyz57 a écrit:Oui enfin coder un slug like et un jeu avec juste un background qui change ça n'a rien à voir

Karuga a écrit:j'hésite énormément sur quel support prendre le jeu.

Sur Neo ça fait 400 balles pour un jeu qui tournera parfaitement sur MD et donc qui, niveau réalisation, sera en dessous de ce qu'on a le droit d'avoir sur NG. Puis pour 400 euros y a quand même autre choses à acheter sur la console. De plus à la base, le jeu est prévu sur MD