Patreon Podcast! New Year's Resolutions 2022 - Electric After Dark
Time to talk about the new year and my goals for 2022 as a player and content maker :-)
2022-01-19 08:37:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The Electric Underground posts
Patreon Monthy Voted Review Nomination Time
Hi Everyone! It's nomination time for the monthly Patreon-voted review! Go ahead and leave your nominations in the comments section :-) We'll start voting 1/24/2022
Thank you so much for supporting the channel!
Sincerely,
Mark MSX
2022-01-18 17:56:06 +0000 UTC View PostHellsinker Review Finally Finished!! Up Next is Shieldmaiden MX
Patreon Voted Review Winner is Schildmaid MX!
It was pretty close, but Schildmaid MX pulled ahead in the end :-)
Thank you so much for participating and supporting the channel everyone! I will have the hellsinker review out this weekend!
Sincerely,
Mark
2022-01-06 20:53:52 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon Voted Review Tiebreaker!! Alien Soldier vs. Schildmaid MX
Hi everyone,
We had a rare tie in votes, so we are going to do a tiebreaker between Alien Soldier and Schildmaid MX! Go ahead and cast your vote for one vs the other. Vote will end 1/5/2021
https://forms.gle/thRKoe8GuQfZocoX9
Cheers!
Mark
2022-01-03 04:59:44 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon Vote Time!!!
Nominations (if I missed any message me! I think I figured it out this time, but just in case ha):
Alien Soldier
Schildmaid MX
Blue Wish Desire
Giga Wing
G-Darius
Bee Storm
Sexy Parodious
Xexex.
Recca
Dragon Blaze
Blazing Star 2021-12-21 23:10:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Patreon Podcast Q&A December! Have Video Games Been Disney-fied
Patreon Monthly Voted Review - Nomination Time
Hi everyone,
Time to nominate for the monthly voted review!! We will begin voting on 12/20/2021! Also, sorry that some of the nominations got lost last month, it was because patreon is STUPID and collapses the early comment upward, instead of downward like every other website ever. So I have made note of that and won't miss any this time around.
Cheers and thank you so much for supporting the channel!
-Mark
2021-12-13 21:05:46 +0000 UTC View PostFun Idea! Post Questions Here For Patreon Q&A Podcast!
Hi everyone,
I have a fun idea. I thought this month I would do a Q&A podcast for you all where you can post your questions here and I will answer them on the patreon podcast. I thought this could be a cool way to interact with the patrons and do something fun and new with the patreon podcast.
2021-12-13 21:00:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Winner! Hellsinker (This is going to be brutal ha)
By a crazy close margin, we have a winner, Hellsinker! Also don't worry I haven't forgotten about last month's winner, going to try to get it released next weekend! Huge content pipeline this past month!
2021-11-28 01:57:33 +0000 UTC View PostExclusive Patreon Podcast, Electric After Dark - The Key to Being Cool!
Don't take my advice in this ep too seriously ha! XD It's mostly just for fun and talking about getting to that mythical cool status for the genre ;-)
2021-11-22 11:28:32 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon Voted Review - VOTE TIME! (Ends 11/27/2021)
Hi everyone!
It's vote time! The vote will end 11/27/2021. Thank you so much for supporting the channel <3 Remember to write your name on your vote, Illuminati get 2 votes and Homies get 1 :-D
Here are the nominees:
Hellsinker
Border Down
Zanac
Gradius
Time Bokan: Bokan to Ippatsu! Doronbo
Gradius V
Shikhondo - Soul Eater
G Darius / G Darius HD
Alpha Mission II / ASO II Last Guardian
Akai Katana
It's Patreon Voted Review Nomination Time!
Hi Everyone!
It's time to nominate this month's patreon voted review! Just go ahead and leave your nominations in the comments. Nominations end on Monday :-)
Thank you for supporting the channel!!
Mark
2021-11-16 20:34:33 +0000 UTC View PostBig House of Bullets Update!!
This weekend I spent a ton of time working on House of Bullets to add an additional mechanic to the game that I think adds a solid addition. I have added in an invincibility mechanic where when you press the "super button" (now mapped to where the bomb button was) the player will turn gold and have 4 seconds of invul (you also can swing a sword attack if you hold super). The invul recovery is timer based :-)
P.S. bomb is now mapped to "S" or circle (for playstation controller)
I'm...
2021-11-15 22:20:31 +0000 UTC View PostHouse of Bullets Patreon Beta Starts NOW! Stage 1 Release 1
*Update - Just Released a New build that darkens the background (version 1.1)*
So here's a quick run down of how all this works!
I am developing this shmup with the hope of completing it within a year (and am sincerely going to work towards keeping up with development).
I am going to release individual stage betas for Patrons to play test and try out!
I am really happy ...
2021-11-09 00:16:03 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon Vote Winner! Silhouette Mirage!
In a fairly comfortable lead, we have this month's winner!
Thank you so much for supporting the channel, I really do appreciate it a lot, it goes a long way towards helping me continue to make content!
2021-10-26 18:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
PATREON MONTHLY REVIEW VOTE TIME!
Hi everyone,
Sorry for the flood of posts in your inboxes ha, I've been moving all my old website articles onto the website for backup. But now it's time for the patreon voted review! Here are the nominees:
G Darius / G Darius HD
Sexy Parodious
CosmoDreamer
Akai Katana
Silhouette Mirage
V-V
Alpha Mission II / ASO II Last Guardian
Gunnail
Hellsinker
Recca
Gradius 5
Remember homies get 1 vote a...
2021-10-18 22:57:44 +0000 UTC View PostElectric Underground's Shmup Input Lag Database
Shmup Input Lag Database
*Consistency Explanation*
I don’t like using number like 6.5 or 6.25 frames because that kind of misrepresents how input lag works. A game cannot perform an action between frames, the action either occurs on frame 6 or frame 7. Using figures 6.5 represents that half the time the action occurs on frame 6 and the other half on frame 7, but this is kind of vague which is why I ...
2021-10-18 21:51:54 +0000 UTC View PostArticle - A Proposal for Updating How The System 11 Forum Record Scores On the Site (Retrospective)
What is written below is a post I made on the ShmupSystem11 forums about updating how we record scores on the forum. Here is the link to the original post:
https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=63002
Since making this post, I have come to the conclusion that any sort of change on the ShmupSystem11 forum is never going to ha...
2021-10-18 21:47:14 +0000 UTC View PostArticle - What is ShmupArch? Why Does it Matter?
For those who may have heard about ShmupArch already, and for those who have not, I felt it would be a good idea to write this article to give a more in-depth explanation of what ShmupArch is and how it works. I think this article can also help clear up some confusion or misunderstandings about the emulator.
To start things off, ShmupArch is merely a custom configuration of a popular emulation front-end called ...
2021-10-18 21:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostArticle - The Shmup Review Issue (A Fav of Mine)
The main focus of this article is not to nitpick the scores of certain shmup reviews, or to discourage the general gaming media from reviewing shmups, or to be an elitist jerk. If I am an elitist jerk, I’m sorry, it’s not intentional …
2021-10-18 21:38:46 +0000 UTC
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Article - Kamui Review by Dingo
The first title released in what would become the Altynex Trilogy
Kamui is a vertically scrolling STG (shooting game) developed Japanese Doujin (the common label given to independent Japanese game developers) team Siter Skain. The title was originally released for Windows in 1999. It has since...
2021-10-18 21:37:21 +0000 UTC View PostArticle - Accessibility Matters: A Case Study of Ketsui DeathTiny and M2 ShotTriggers The Best Shmup Port that Nobody Plays
*Note* The contents of this article are not a journalistic endeavor. The viewpoint that I express and the information I speculate on is based on only observation, extrapolation, inference, and anecdotal data. This is an article of opinion written for the purposes of discussion, not as a statement of fact. Please do not misconstrue my musings about M2 ShotTriggers as factual statements, because they are not.
Article - Student of STG Written by Juju Kenobi (Absolute Gem!)
Written By Juju Kenobi
Edited by Mark MSX
Hi! I’m Juju Kenobi, a 25 years old French engineer and video game addict :p
Before Shmups
I started playing when I was little. Back when I was six, my family (parents, sister, and I) had a SEGA Megadrive . We had only one video...
2021-10-18 18:31:20 +0000 UTC View PostArticle - The Japanese Shmup Scene, Interview with Superplayer Arasaka
Japanese STG player interviewed: Arasaka
Interview conducted by: Mark MSX
(Arasaka 481 Mill Ura 2-All)
Yeah … this dude is legit.
Forward:
An article like this has been a lo...
2021-10-18 18:28:47 +0000 UTC View PostArticle - ShmupArch Compatibility List
Patreon doesn't get along with the OG table, so here is a website snapshot:
2021-10-18 18:27:22 +0000 UTC View PostArticle - Is Low Latency Emulation Cheating?
So a little background about this article and why I have decided to write it. For those who have been following my humble website and Discord this may be somewhat redundant, but I think it is best to try and give the full backstory. Previous to this article, I wrote an article called “What is ShmupArch? Why Does it Matter?” The purpose of this writing was just to provide some clarification of what exactly ShmupArch is...
2021-10-18 18:24:15 +0000 UTC View PostArticle - Indie Shmups Communicating Their Scoring Systems
Hi everyone,
For the past year and definitely the past month, I have been giving a good deal of thought about indie shmups and their continually growing importance to the shmup community. As I am sure many of you are aware, the past few years have been a goldmine in really stellar indie shmup releases. Of course there are too many to name, and I feel like if I try and do so I’ll end up excluding a really important...
2021-10-18 18:22:27 +0000 UTC View Post