Don't worry, I haven't trashed this project yet.

Just showing off a new weapon.  This one allows you to fire 20 ice shards simultaneously.  Just one is the weakest weapon in the game, but together, it's some pretty good damage.

And that blue spiky ball?  It's a burst mine.  If you or your weapons touch it, it will explode in a large burst of energy, so don't get too close.

@Ocean: I love your style.

@Ness: Very nice. Is the black part on Cirno's the girl's sprite a part of the design?

@Weird guy: I'm liking what I'm seeing.

@Mr Weird Guy: That is looking amazing! It's all pixely and classic. My only problem is the huge score counter which takes up a great deal more space then it needs to.

Aw, come on.  You know you wanna push yourself to get a score in the hundred trillions. >_>

@ Lennon: I like the simple style with the humor and text. Is it RM2K/3?

Yep.

@Nessiah: Yup! Say, try doing a pseudo-Midgar battle background for style's feasibility.

Nessiah, it looks really really good. The only problem I have is the bevel on the interface windows. I've always hated that effect - just a personal peeve I suppose.

Mr Weird Guy: Looks pretty great! Reminds me of Super Nintendo in many ways. How does your game play? If it is anything like Gradius or R-Type, then I'm sold.

Well, it is inspired by Gradius-style games, so I can imagine you'd enjoy it.  Anyway, let me give you a basic rundown.
Your shield is constantly regenerating, at the rate of like 1% every second or so.  Your weapon energy recharges much faster, probably from 0% to 100% in five seconds.
Almost every enemy has a chance to drop their own weapon for you to use.  There's a wide range of unique weapons, from lasers to flamethrowers to falling moai statues.  Needless to say, the stronger the weapon, the more weapon energy it uses.  I'm still debating how weapon switching works.  Right now I have it so your current weapon is replaced with the one you pick up, but I think I wanna make it so you can gain a weapon permanently and switch between them at will if you have full WE.

Also, I guess I'll write up all the 15 different weapons I currently have in the game right now.
Normal (N): A simple shot forward, low damage.
Tiny (T): A small shot that does half the normal shot's damage at a fraction of the WE cost.
Wave (W): One normal shot and two tiny shots that move in a wave pattern.
Bomb (B): Fires a bomb straight ahead, that explodes after a second.
Pierce (P): A sharp shot that pierces through everything.
Flamethrower (F): A constant powerful stream of fire.
Burst (B): A large blue explosion radiates from the ship.
Gel (G): Throws a ball of green gel forward in an upward arc.  Horizontal speed depends on whether you're holding left, right, or nothing.
Laser (L): A weak, constant laser that covers the whole screen.
Diamond (D): Four rotating diamonds shield you from some attacks.  Similar to Jewel Man's weapon from Mega Man 9.
Missile (M): A powerful missile that starts slow and accelerates quickly.  Explodes on impact.
Energy Ball (E): Basically a larger, stronger, slower version of Pierce.
Thunder (T): Bolts of electricity cover the entire screen.
Ice Shards (I): Throws 20 ice shards forward in an upward arc.  Horizontal speed depends on whether you're holding left, right, or nothing.
Moai (M): Summons a moai statue that falls, dealing massive damage.

These are all in the game already, and are fully functional.  There's gonna be even more, though.  I don't know how many, maybe 32 total.

I'm still working on this title screen, maybe adding more characters and making more things happen, so far there's only three events taking place. I'd love to hear thoughts about what's there so far though.

What is supposed to be? I assume the skeleton of city skyline. It seems a little to cluttered around the middle, and the bevel on the building below "Blank #" seems a little steep. Other than that it seems to be panning out fine so far.

@ Nessiah: Dude, you don't really need to ask me if I approve of YOUR art. It's AWESOME! Well drawn!

I just wanted to see a background that doesn't match the same HUD's color. The forest could be lighter for sprite contrast.

Happy place is the most psychotic part in Angelissa's Quest, almost reaching to the mind fuck factor of Dooms games.

New vid. Increased the ATB to calculating/rendering rate 30fps rather than 10fps (worked out that a wait of 0.0 is actually 0.033).

No, it's 0.016666.

Its not, otherwise the higher FPS version would be calculating twice as fast as it should be, and its not. To render at 30fps I had to scale the calculation down to 1/3 - so if it was 0.016666 it would be incrementing way too quickly.

So... I'm not sure what to tell you, 0.033 works out on my end (calculated it with parallel counters and through testing I've also verified its the correct ATB speed).