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Lucretia - Demon Princess is a horizontal shooter inspired by Magical Chase. It is the spiritual sequel to Eponasoft's previous release, Paradox Girl, using some of the same characters. The basic idea was to create an entire game based on Paradox Girl's shooter sequences. Equuskia is once again a character in the game (in her Castle outfit from Paradox Girl), although she is now joined by Reina (who was "Cici" in Paradox Girl), Zamy, and Rhianna (two new characters). Each of the four ladies represents one of the four elements.

The game is rather unorthodox in how it controls. Much like Sidearms, you can fire in both directions, and enemies will come from both directions. However, in Lucretia, you can decide how the game controls... it has three schemes available. The default scheme uses II as the fire button and I as a "direction lock"... that is, when you hold I, the direction you're facing in is frozen, allowing you to move backwards and continue firing in the direction you're facing in. There is also a "direction toggle" scheme, which uses the I button to switch directions. The last scheme is the same as in Sidearms, utilizing both II and I for directional fire. Also, the game is set up for two-player co-op, and either player can pause the game. There is a Pause menu where you can switch control schemes at will. Only the player who paused the game can unpause the game.

Demo version (still here):

http://www.eponasoft.com/lucretiademo.7z
http://www.frozenutopia.com/lucretiademo.7z

Two download locations, just in case.

Here is the latest revision of the ISO track:

http://www.eponasoft.com/lucretiademorevision1a.7z
http://www.frozenutopia.com/lucretiademorevision1a.7z

UPDATE:

Beta testing is about to begin. We are now officially accepting applications for closed beta testers. Registration is simple but details are everything!

To apply for a position on the closed beta team, send me a PM with the following information:

-Name you would like to have appear in the credits
-An email address you can be reached at
-Whether or not you have previous experience with closed beta testing (and if so, list your experience)
-Whether or not you have hardware (and if no hardware, whether or not you can work with Mednafen)

We will be selecting eight people for the beta test, and it will run until the game is ready for manufacturing. Each beta tester will receive two free copies of the game, plus the complete set of additional promotional merchandise.

UPDATE:

Beta testing is underway as of Monday, March 3rd.
« Last Edit: March 01, 2014, 03:49:18 AM by The Old Rover »

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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2013, 09:09:35 PM »
Scrolling looks nice. I assume you're using these BG graphics as temps for the moment?
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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2013, 11:16:46 PM »


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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2013, 05:01:25 AM »
I worry a little about the size of the character sprite. Will it have a smaller hitbox? Big "ships" in shooters can lead to lots of cheap deaths.
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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2013, 11:48:50 AM »
Scrolling looks nice. I assume you're using these BG graphics as temps for the moment?
Yes, since the parallax mountains were designed for Monolith. Pretty much all the graphics are temporary at the moment.

I worry a little about the size of the character sprite. Will it have a smaller hitbox? Big "ships" in shooters can lead to lots of cheap deaths.
Everything is big but the game moves a little less speedy than other games of its kind so that may or may not be a problem here. Time will tell. If need be, I'll use smaller characters.

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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2013, 01:43:30 PM »
I worry a little about the size of the character sprite. Will it have a smaller hitbox? Big "ships" in shooters can lead to lots of cheap deaths.
Everything is big but the game moves a little less speedy than other games of its kind so that may or may not be a problem here. Time will tell. If need be, I'll use smaller characters.

Yeah, sorry to be leading with a slightly negative tone. Been playing a bit of Dragon Spirit and Air Zonk lately, two big-hitbox shooters that are great but can be a little frustrating due to character size.
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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2013, 02:59:30 PM »
No worries. It's still somewhat early in development, although this project has moved *extremely* rapidly and its core code is about 90% complete already. I didn't want to spring this one here until there was something to actually show for it.

I had planned on getting the demo out today but I was away most of the day so I didn't get the chance. Maybe by tomorrow morning.

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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2013, 03:28:14 PM »
Woo hoo! 

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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2013, 04:20:00 PM »
HEIHEIHEI :D
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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2013, 04:41:49 PM »
Will it be CD only or is there a chance of an AbCard/ROM release for those of us without CD capabilities?
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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2013, 04:56:56 PM »
CD only.

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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2013, 05:24:41 PM »
Forgive me for being blonde, but this is a game that you're programming for Turbo CD/PCE CD, right?

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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2013, 05:49:54 PM »
Forgive me for being blonde, but this is a game that you're programming for Turbo CD/PCE CD, right?


Hell yes, it is. Expect a XaviX port, as well.
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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2013, 03:37:45 AM »
Woot!  Homebrew, two-player shewtie!
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Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan)
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2013, 03:57:49 AM »
I've not had enough time to finish the demo yet due to kids but here is another prototype video... attack of the black birds. :)