Mikael Tillander

** Sega Genesis EBH Update ** One of the well used special effect techniques for Semi Rotation of graphics over the years is to use the vertical scrolling offsets along with some horizontal skew with the horizontal scrolling offsets to semi rotate objects - called a tilt normally. Normally the Sega Genesis has 20 vertical scrolling offsets you can set, so that means a unique vertical offset every 16 pixels over 320 pixels of screen width. This limits the amount of tilt you can do before things start to break up badly . Horizontally we have 224 offsets , but vertically only 20 so it limits things normally. What if it you could vertical scroll every 4 pixels instead of 16 however ? So 80 offsets in total vertically , what could you do ? Also what if you could tilt two objects at the same time on the same background plane ? Well you could do Tilts with finely detailed graphics and they would look pretty great even when tilted quite a bit ! No animation , no extra frames , just some cpu / vdp trickery . Gameplay yet to be fine tuned but for those that thought the sword was a gimmick - No its not - haha . Theres a bit of cpu involved to get the tilt working to this degree for both Battleships so we do get to about 88 % cpu in this scene with 170 + bullets also. 60 FPS locked as usual . Stay tuned - EBH will push the Genesis hard !! @GabrielPyron @Carsten1349 @Luke86McQueen #SGDK #SegaGenesis #SegaMegadrive

** SEGA GENESIS E.B.H update ** Added since last update : Woah .. progress this week is wild !! Blitted Starfield ( makes the most of one layer by compositing stars over each other for added parallax ) . Enemy explosions - debris and particles to come yet. New spread shot firepower and 2 levels of both firepower concentrated and spread - this will be upgraded a lot yet . With further types and animations added. New enemies and new Battleships enter the scenes, the new battle ships are spawn 32 bullets in 4 pulses ( 128 bullets each ) .. so bullet counts a nice and heavy in those scenes. Music added !! SFX to come, using XGM2 driver here for a 1.6% cpu load - thats about my budget for it too in this game haha - every cycle counts when we climb to 350 objects onscreen. Huge thanks to @Luke86McQueen for the amazing OST you are listening too now . @GabrielPyron for the player ship frames, @Carsten1349 artwork for Battleship and Red enemy - I've also done a bit of the art myself which has been a nice change from endless coding. Early days but its shaping up . It seems 3 shooters on the go (Parodius , Lufthoheit , EBH ) might be the right number !! #SGDK #SegaGenesis #SegaMegadrive