School For SHMUPs (Chapter ONE)
A downloadable game for Windows
Chapter 1 of the long anticipated [citation needed] visual novel 'A School for SHMUPs' is now available after five years of tormented and delayed development.
When a human boy is admitted to a prestigious school that is otherwise exclusively for SHMUPs, he must learn to cope with a shift in his reality. SHMUPs are real, they have wants, needs, emotions and goals. They're just like you and me! What awaits in your first year at Shmuppington Academy?
A tale as old as time, this is just the first exciting chapter of this story. Will there be a chapter two? Lets be honest, probably not, that's what happens when a developer underestimates the effort in making a visual novel. And, in this case, a visual novel with fully 3D characters, animations, 3D backgrounds, branching story and choices that stay with you to the end of the game.
Please enjoy this terrible tale of cosmic horror, murder, friendship, love and schoolwork.
Feel free to send me your thoughts @thos_thom
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Install instructions
Currently available only for windows, here are the instructions to play the game:
- Download the zip file
- Unzip it somewhere obvious, remember where
- Navigate to this folder and run School4SHMUPs.exe
You can run this from anywhere you like!
To play simple select the options you like the best. Everything you choose is remembered! So choose wisely.
As the first release of the game, it has no menus, save features or anything at all, really. Just choose your choices until the game ends. At the end the game will quit.
If you want to bail out early, then you can alt f4 your way to victory.
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I enjoyed both the humor and the eldritch terror engendered by giving serious consideration to how, exactly, these SHMUPs exist at all. Despite being more of a prologue than anything else, it feels like a solid introduction to this intriguing and more-than-a-little-disturbing world, and I appreciate how the MC's sheer inability to comprehend... anything that's happening to him creates tension without overplaying it in the way a lot of horror/deconstructionist VNs often do. I'm looking forward to more retro arcade references and spending more time at Shmuppington Academy, which at first glance sounds like a school for something else entirely, and I'm already anticipating poor, friendly B-Type's horrific death.