Doujin Shmups: an Introduction

Posted by Derek Yu Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:06:00 GMT

GDC is goin’ on and Progrium, Alec, and I attended part one of the Independent Games Summit today… but we’ll discuss that once we’ve had a chance to fully recover. For now, I want to introduce to you a new feature that I’ve been cooking up behind the scenes with Postman from Shoot the Core, William Swaney from the2bears, and our very own Tim W. (Independent Gaming):

An Introduction to Doujin Shmups.

Essentially it’s a beginner’s guide to getting into the rather daunting Japanese indie shoot ‘em up scene that we hope will get new players into the genre. Despite the relative simplicity of these types of games, I was surprised by the amount of variation in even a single subcategory of shoot ‘em ups. And it’s definitely a genre that keeps growing, as is evidenced by Clean Asia and, more recently, Guxt.

Hope you enjoy!

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  1. Derek said 26 minutes later:

    P.S. I am FUCKING tired!

  2. iopred said about 3 hours later:

    TIGSource, more like ShmupSource amirite?

    Great article however!

  3. Anonymous said about 5 hours later:

    commencing Touhou flood.. oh wait, wrong board

  4. Andy said about 7 hours later:

    http://www.shootthecore.com/ goes to a holding page - it should be http://shootthecore.moonpod.com/

    You were tired! ;)

  5. Tim said about 7 hours later:

    fixed. ;)

  6. Dan MacDonald said about 8 hours later:

    The sessions at GDC this year are weird… I agree with Derek, it will take some time to get it sorted.

  7. NHP said about 15 hours later:

    great feature! love it thanks

  8. Koach said 1 day later:

    Good read! Damn work keeps me from downloading any playing everything I can find…

  9. BMcC said 1 day later:

    I do enjoy, thanks!

    I am a bit less clueless about shooters this day.

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