One game that does the bullet hell boss rush gameplay really well is The Void Rains Upon Her Heart, could be used as inspiration or ideas

This looks really fun!

The game looks so smooth to play. Also I don't think you really care about this, but the arena is very empty, so I suggest that to stay in the circle shape add some sort of ritual to the arena in which the boss appears. So this could be like this: the hero travels to destroy all the demons in the world who are created from these great rituals. Well it's just an idea, you have your own thoughts on the "lore" of the game (I think)

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I looked at the title and was like "so basically, you made touhou?"

Mayby ad a damage dropp of for hitting the boss from farther away so that beeing at a riskier distance and learning the boss patterns become more rewording

This is insane. Keep going man you have lots of potential for the future

criminally underrated

this game looks cool ima sub

this looks like a rlly fun game!! would 100% love to play it

Nice

so im a liitle late but uh this looks insanely good and definitely feels like a game that i would definitely play for a WHILE (provided there is more than two bosses, which i assume there is) the bullet patterns are REALLY sick, especially the spinning bullets one. ghosting looks fun as hell to use and mess with, and i love how you gave people a way to not instantly die to arena changes or falling off the map wonder if the blue attacks are gonna be used more as actual attacks and not just arena guards, given how cool of an idea that is the arena as of now is neat, but i wonder if other arena shapes could be made. maybe a cluster of islands that could be dashed between? that little green guy looks really neat. despite the fact they're smaller than 90% of the game sprites i like the fact that they're still visually distinct from everything else one small thing is that the ghosting has a fairly large distance. i don't know if this would be possible but having a smaller variant or some way to control the distance *slightly* might be neat. unsure if that would mess with boss design tho i love boss rush games and i cannot wait to see where this goes later. has a lot of potential

Cool what do u make your art on

bro ur so underrated wth

This looks really cool and unique!!! You came up with a mechanic that looks very fun, is original and is not too complicated to understand, that's a really good thing!! I was surprised when I saw how few views and subscribers you have, you're really underrated! Keep up the good work because this has a lot of potential :D

Think it'd be cool if theres a boss/enemy/attack that needs to be dashed into to either damage them or avoid taking damage

this looks awesome 😄

A boss-only bullet-hell game is a good idea. You should check out a game called Furi. Good luck with your project!

I thought the big red mouth boss and the one in the robe were entirely different bosses! But in the close up view of mouthy.... I REALIZED ITS ONE BIG ROBE i thought he was a hydra or something

Great vid, first time in a while I’ve watched one of these without thinking abt clicking off

looks sick dude!

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Ah, yes, a game about ghosting people. I'll be good at it.

this is SICK cam!!! 😮🎉🎉 the sprite animations, esp for the boss is super well done!! 🔥

You could use saving grace for dodging a stage wide attack.

I could imagine here being some extremely cool and specific boss features with the saving grace system at 4:20, such as forcing the player to jump off a ledge and use the ghost to land on a nearby one, but they're too far away to just go directly from one platform to another. Other things you could do to design physical geometry around the ghosting ability would be to design different types of walls that you can AND can't pass through with it. Perhaps metal fences are passable by the ghost, but solid walls are not. There could also perhaps be energy barriers that ONLY allow corporeal beings through, but not ghosts. The inclusion of walls can also lead to fun boss gimmicks like normally undodgable attacks that are blocked by walls, forcing the player to stick around them for some attacks, but wanting to get away from them for the freedom of movement Some bosses could spawn these physical barriers in the map as well as destroying parts of the floor, forcing you to use the ghosting for complex navigation, instead of purely dodging bullets all the time. It would expand on the feature in a way that could be unique for many different bosses.

idea to make the yellow boxes/circles less lazy: make custom sprite per yellow box/circle like flickering lighting for the laser attack, or a minion being made like dry bones but with flesh

I smell potential.

4:38 That was the smartest way to ask somebody to like and subscribe I've seen

Something I would want to keep in mind is to have all bullets that can’t be ghosted through have a common visual theme, like all being the same color or shape, so the player doesn’t get confused when they try to ghost through a bullet and it hurts them. Other than that, the game looks amazing! You’ve earned yourself a subscriber!

Game looks sick

i want this so bad you have no clue how long ive wanted to play a bullet hell game 😭

Watching the ghosting mechanic has given me an idea for a movement accessory in my own game, (a terraria clone). It'll definitely be simpler though, just hold right click and point in a direction, and when you release right click you'll either be telported a certain distance in that direction, or you'll shoot forward with s in that direction. Grouping bullets also looks cool, but it also looks like it'd take a lot of work to implement. I might add it for later bosses though.

Id (maybe) suggest that after a set amount of range your bullet begins to shrink and make less damage which would make it less worth trying to stay away from an enemy, also maybe make it so that you bullet does like 2.5 dmg if shot at point blank which maybe isnt a viable strategy but itd be a nice payoff for if a boss stops shooting for a second and your already close to it

This game looks really cool. Subbing!

Small change would suggest making the character transparent when ghosting, with rolling most gamers have been taught that its not only mobility but also evasive, but when ghosting loos like just walking it might be initally confusing for some

When i watched the video i honestly thought this was made by a guy with 200k subs, not 200 subs.You earned my subscription

really cool video! i saw some comments asking you to make a tutorial in godot(since i think thats what u use) and it would be really awesome if you could do that!

Due to enjoying this video, I have decided I must subscribe. Keep it up

The bullet patterns and the animations look awesome! Honestly that's a very good start, keep it up! The ghosting looks fun and is a very original idea, but the one thing I'd say about it is that using a player silhouette is a little bit dissonant with what the ability actually does. Usually in game this sort of UI indicates that the player is gonna arrive (or snap/blink) at that location, while in your game the player flies past it. In my opinion some sort of arrow or any sort of reticule that implies movement would be better. Anyway you've earned a subscriber, I can't wait to see where this goes! Good Luck!

Really cool idea to group bullets and apply any forces to full group.

Big boss aoe move that forces u to time saving grace and jump off in order to not get hit by it

impressive video , underrated develloper tbh

Overall, this is a really nice video but the speaking REALLY needs more intonation

what software do you use for game development? i wanna make a bullet hell game myself but im not sure where to even begin here's my ideas: squares -> shoot in a basic line (vertical or horizontal) circles -> shoot diagonal, start small and bounce off walls with angle shifts and increase size every bounce (with the max amount of bounces increasing the longer you survive) stars -> shoot horizontal, vertical or diagonal for about 75% of the screen while spinning, when it reaches this 75% mark the inner pentagon explodes and it shoots out the 5 points as triangles triangles -> shoot at whatever direction they were facing when the star they were on exploded, shoot twice as fast as other projectiles i also want you to move around as a small square with WASD or arrow keys for movement edit: im up to collab or more in-depth tutorials/explanations too if you have those

this looks awesome

Your so underrated I thought you were some popular youtuber bc of how well the video is 👍🏻👍🏻

Playere shooting system looks boring, I think if you improve it or completely remove it from the game so it would like try to survive as long as you can, and for one of the bosses in future it would be good if it's made of different platforms that you can only go on it by ghosting so it would be harder to dodge but I think bullet patterns should be simpler or it will feel unfair

really cool!!

boss rush bullet hell sounds super fun