Cosmic Seethe

 

In 2012, I started working on a beat 'em up inspired by a fan game named Ögonbryn, which was created by TatsuSoft. It was going to be a crossover where characters from various franchises meet each other. However, the game was never finished and was ultimately cancelled.

3 years later, I reworked this game's engine into Skampfer Squad, a Battletoads clone. Grabs, blitz attacks and additional aerial attacks were added. Invincibility after wakeup like in the Streets of Rage games was also added. It was also my very first time making use of sprite origins and having the characters change their image_xscale value in order to face left or right. Nowadays, I consider Cosmic Seethe as an engine. Some of the code I used for this engine (mostly the lifebar code) would later be used for a mini game in Hisoka The Babysitter!, Ultra Hisoka.

A prototype of this game can be found in my Game Maker Archive.

Franchise Overview

Dr. Lunatic: Dr. Lunatic stars Bouapha, a bald guy who throws hammers, collecting brains necessary to clear each level. The titular maniac (Dr. Lunatic himself) steals zombie brains and turns into a zombie himself.

Madou Monogatari: This series consisted of first-person dungeon crawlers where the player takes the role of Arle Nadja. Unlike most RPG's, some statistics are displayed differently and not by digits. Arle's facial expression signifies how much health she has. Experience is shown by jewels which form into various shapes when leveling up. Madou Monogatari also saw a spinoff series titled Puyo Puyo, a puzzle game in the vein of Tetris and Dr. Mario. This game was also the basis for Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine and Kirby's Ghost Trap / Avalanche.

Blupi: Blupi is a yellow egg-shaped species created by EPSITEC or Daniel Roux in 1979 (judging from their history page). But actually, it appears Blupi was created as early as 1974. He appears in a few action-packed and educational titles. Some of his first games were created for the Smaky (short for Smart Keyboard). These games would later be ported to the DOS, most notably Blupimania (it was even hosted somewhere a year before its 3D sequel came out). Unfortunately, the other DOS Blupi Games were all but impossible to find (until blupi.org was created in 2017). Blupi is probably best known for his appearance in Speedy Blupi. It was marketed by eGames as Speedy Eggbert and since then the game has been featured on their website.

Blupi quote: "The instruction list allows you to view a basic program!"

Codes

Left Right Down Right Up Right Tab+Space

Ctrl+1/2 to change any character

01 Bouapha
02 Arle
03 Blupi
04 Alex Kidd / Stella
05 Galsia
06 Donovan
07 Freddy
08 Bonehead
09 Happy Stickman
10 Mumble
11 Slum
12 Roll
13 Onnanoko