Shooter’s Haven

It was bound to happen. Someone found Stencyl, spread the word, and the public release is imminent.

I never would have expected the forum’s opening to be this sudden, but so it goes.

At any rate, Espgaluda is still whooping me left and right, and I’ve all but given up on further Star Fox 64 play after breaking the 2000 hit barrier. Instead, my time has been mostly spent with school, work, and most importantly sleep.

I might also mention that the ultra-wacky, bizarre timesink Disgaea (both my recently acquired copy of 1 and my more distantly acquired copy of 2) has once again caught my attention, and draws a lot of time as well.

Either way, the impending public release is exciting, and hopefully we’ll attract some users and some extra talent to help push development.

One last cryptic note to the public: Empress Aristielua is on her way……eventually…

~EI

Yes…I’ve turned the way of the “devil” and have one of these rantboards to spew my thoughts upon. Fear me…or something similar.

At any rate, for those who weren’t thoroughly aware, I’m the resident shooter fanatic on the Stencyl team…and yes, I do mean “fanatic”. Fanatic to the point of torrenting 8 gigs of MAME ROMs only to filter out and play almost only shooters on it (ironically now lost due to formatting my hard drive). Fanatic to the point of acquiring no less than 15 total locally released shooters. Fanatic to the point of IMPORTING a Japanese PS2 solely to import shooters to play on them. Fanatic.

Either way, it’s clear that shooters (and, before you read any further, know that I mean TRUE shooters, or what you newfangled kids might call “arcade shooters” or “scrolling shooters”. R-Type. Gradius. Ikaruga. Those. If you so much as think in my presence (insert FPS here, say…”Halo” or “Doom 3″ or whatever random FPS it is that’s populr these days) is a shooter, I’ll kill you where you sit. No joke) are a major part of my gaming life.

At any rate, that should hopefully serve a sufficient introduction. I don’t feel like rambling much more.

~EI