Thera - 1pre1

Richard Gonzalez (richardgnw)

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pygame shooter game windows linux bsd bullethell

Description

Thera is a bullet hell computer game. A video of Thera's gameplay can be found here [youtube.com].

Thera is not quite done, but a preview version is available that is incomplete but playable.

Thera depends on both python 2.x and the associated pygame.

Thera is licensed under the simplified bsd license.

To play Thera, download either the zip archive or tarball, uncompress, and execute the thera.pyw script.

Now for Thera's controls...

Menu Controls

UP_ARROW / DOWN_ARROW: Move selection (either up or down).

ENTER: Select selection.

Gameplay Controls

ARROWS: Move Miyu (main character of Thera).

z key: Make Miyu (main character of Thera) attack. Hold key for a continuous attack.

Dialog Controls

ENTER: Next

Links

Home Page: http://flux.yuku.com/forums/97/Thera
Source: http://www.mediafire.com/?l9s8ig56d4j3o
Windows: http://www.mediafire.com/?l9s8ig56d4j3o

Screenshot

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Releases

Thera - 1pre2 - Apr 6, 2011
Thera - 1pre1 - Mar 25, 2011
Thera - 1pre0 - Mar 21, 2011

Comments

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March 26, 2011 5:59am - Johannes Charra - nickname: (jcharra) - 4/5
Well done. My left hand hurts from shooting ... always a sign of quality for a shooter. ;)
March 25, 2011 3:19pm - Richard Gonzalez - nickname: (richardgnw)
There is a difficulty setting in the options menu in version 1pre1, so if one feels that the game is too difficult, the difficulty can be adjusted. However, this difficulty setting just modifies Miyu's max hp and the rate at which hp and power is regained. As for the cannot shoot while moving diagonally error, I have not encountered this, but I suspect it is an issue with the KEYDOWN events not making it to the program.
March 23, 2011 5:35pm - Hayden Dennison - nickname: (hidas) - 4/5
Very nice bullet hell! I see you haven't solved that problem of not being able to shoot whilst going diagonally up and to the left, or down and to the right. I still haven't been able to fix that in my own shmup. I also like how the little grim reaper bullets go in a random direction, instead of just straight up. I will be looking forward to future releases! :)
March 23, 2011 12:08am - Ian Mallett - nickname: (geometrian)
A classic PyGame. Well done! I did find the boss rather too difficult. So, I tripled the protagonist's rate of fire, and quintupled her power. The result: http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/907/image1dy.png I found this much easier. I'm also impressed the game maintained a decent framerate despite the extra work.