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What would you like in a Top Down Shooter?
DaveJ-UK:
Make it funny, everyone likes a game that makes them laf. This is probably easier said than done.
One thing that really irritates me in a lot of games is how every single enemy fires the same damn little round balls at you. And they all have the same effect on you; you could have ice, fire, poison, etc. damage like in Diablo!
And big explosions, can't go wrong there. Same for ludicrously powerful power ups.
NoBonus:
You know what else might be cool. A Star Wars based top down shooter... with all of the typical ships and whatnot and you could pick what ship you want to control. Of course, it would be cooler if you could be empire ships, but whatever. Or base it on a different movie like Battlestar Gallactica, The Black Hole (cheesy movie, but Maximillian is too cool), or something like that, just not the Rocketeer or the Matrix. Or you could base it on superheros where you could be Superman in flight, Wonder Woman in her invisible plane, The Flash running quickly, Green Lantern floating about, the Human Torch in flight, and so on and you could fight villanous hordes. Just don't do Batman unless a bunch of other characters are in the mix too.
abrannan:
Make it a "BYO shooter" engine. Allow people to custom create enemies, ships, play styles, backgrounds, bosses, music, etc. For ideas of engine types and play controls, you need to have the proper education.
Make sure to play:
DoDonpachi - Two selectable weapon styles, two fire modes, two bomb modes, and screens full of enemy bullets.
Time Pilot - multi-directional shooter
Guwange - Assist-style weapon, ability to freeze or slow enemy shots.
Raiden II - classic three weapon style action.
Ikaruga - for the light/dark polarity system.
Rez/Panzer Dragoon Orta - Yes it's not top down, but it's a novel play style
Twinkle Star Sprites - head to head shooter action, sorta like a puzzle game.
I'm sure there are plenty of other ideas to cannibalize.
Magnet_Eye:
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ultra assualt and star monkey are really good!
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http://www.smallrockets.com/
Magnet_Eye:
I have an idea, inspired what NoBonus posted earlier.
How about a cool airship, thats rustic futuristic style, like the technology from the movies Brazil or 12 Monkeys. This ship will travel through time, each level is a different era and you have to fight against all sorts of different enemies. or maybe you have to chase your enemies through time, and you get to fly through all kinds of cool levels, from prehistory and dinosaurs to 1400's England, 1600's Carribean or to Chicago in the 1930's.
who knows, you could do a lot with the whole time traveling theme. 8)