Myara Story 1.5 ~ Rush for the Shadow Egg
A downloadable game
This game is the first and a half entry of the Myara Story game series focused on the lore and world-building (and the gameplay).
During this adventure, the protagonist you play as will try to uncover the mystery of the "Shadow Egg", and if possible, try to get their hands on it.
The Story
In a part of Japan that was sealed away in another world around 1925, in which the technology stagnated since then, exists four villages with the only inhabitants being lunar mansion magician, a race of magician using the lunar mansion magic. Today, the familiars of three of those magicians told them that a rare magic item has been located inside the Nagasaki forest, a remote area of Myara. For different reasons, those three magicians are preparing to go get their hands on this magical item, the "Shadow Egg".
But, the three of them doesn't know that two other magicians are also up to the challenge. A mad rush begins, who will be the one to get the Shadow Egg?
Gameplay
Use your bullets to take down enemies and your spell-cards to give you bonuses and different ways to attack or defend. You unlock a random spell-card every time you beat a boss. Each playable character has 16 very different spell-cards.
During each stage you have to take down random wave of enemies which become harder the more you progress. But beware of the Uber waves in Hard and Overdrive that can happen with 5% chance...
Each playable character has a different route you will take with different bosses for each of them.
You have up to 4 lives you can have. Each time you get hit, you lose health. When you health goes down to zero, you lose a life. Each bullet and enemies deals a different amount of health damage, so be careful of your surroundings.
Features
- Use your bullets to damage boss and enemies.
- Use your spell cards to affect the game and your experience in different ways.
- 3 Difficulties : Chill, Hard and Overdrive.
- Each stage contains different randomly generated wave of enemies so each run can be a new experience
- Extensive unlockable spell-card system which adds bonuses, offensive attacks and tools to make your runs easier.
Controls
Keep in mind that these controls are by default (qwerty), you can change any keys you want in the option tab of the game.
- Arrow keys - Move around
- Shoot (Z) - Shoot/Confirm
- Bomb (X) - Bomb/Cancel
- Focus (Shift) - Slow your character
- Spell Card (C) - Use a Spell Card
- Pause (Esc) - Cancel/Pause
- Spell Rack (A & D) - Switch to Left/Right Spell Card
The team
- Tania Anehina : Pretty much everything
- plug-c : The music
Smartscreen warning
This game could trigger a windows smartscreen popup or your anti-virus but do know that it's a false positive, I couldn't sign the executable, sorry about that!
Credits
- Ryannlib 1.02 : Some assets and some assets based on it. (see the .txt in /Library for more informations)
Known Bugs
- Sometimes when starting a new run or stage, a variable won't initialize properly due a lag-spike. If this happens to you, just restart the game (or your run) and try again. This is not a critical error and will not corrupt your save file. Your replay won't save, and if you continue your run with this bug happening, your game MAY crash. I'll try to fix it in a next update.
- During gameplay, on the far-right of the screen you can see a 1-pixel wide colored line. I can't seem to do anything about it.
Status | Released |
Author | Rül Hölos |
Genre | Shooter |
Tags | Bullet Hell, danmaku, myara, Shoot 'Em Up |
Code license | MIT License |
Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_NonCommercial_ShareAlike v4.0 International |
Average session | About a half-hour |
Languages | English, French |
Inputs | Keyboard, Gamepad (any) |
Accessibility | Subtitles, Configurable controls |
Download
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Development log
- Patch v1.00bAug 17, 2023
- Hello y'allMay 06, 2023
Comments
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I really enjoyed this game!! The jagged, thick lines make for a really cool art style, the way it displays a map of the world between stages is cool, theres some really solid music tracks in there and I enjoy the characters. Hayla the harpee is my favorite
The bullet density in "chill" mode is a lil insane and pressing the "C" button as any character causes the game to crash, but overall I liked the experienced
Hi! I’m glad you enjoyed the game! o/
For the chill difficulty, it’s a lil hard I agree, some waves are really hard to deal with, maybe I’ll remove/change them in a future patch. As for the error, I haven’t heard of something like that yet, can you provide a screenshot of the error so I can try to fix that?
Thanks! ^^
Hey! Sorry it took me like a week to get back to you I was away for a bit. Heres the error I get
Hoi, sorry took a long time to respond. I think I can see the problem: do you have any cards equiped to the character you play as? If not, then try adding one and press C again in-game. I think this is a bug where I don’t check if the player doesn’t have any cards equiped…If that’s the problem then I wonder how I missed this lol
Update: turns out it’s the case, I’ll push an update to fix this and some other things too