Shmup section

See also: Slimvaders, a minimal shmup written in Python and Pygame for teaching purposes.

Devlogs

• Coming soon, Laser Sky (29 September 2016)
• Laser Sky progress report (22 September 2016)
• Birth of a shoot’em up (15 September 2016)

Reviews

• Three Linux shoot'em ups (01 October 2010)

Links

• It's Behind You: the making of a computer game (Free e-book about the way R-Type was ported to the ZX Spectrum; an excellent read.)
• The History of Square – 1992 Developer Interview (originally featured in Dengeki SFC magazine)

• Gorf: Unfixing the Shooter (6 July 2020)
• Emulating the Space Invaders look and feel (9 June 2020)
• 25 years on, devs reflect on the influence and impact of Star Fox (23 March 2018)
• R-Type: the classic shooter at 30 (27 December 2017)
• Atari Star Wars: Arcade Cockpit Development: a game I never saw in arcades myself, but which apparently influenced the later X-Wing titles (16 June 2017)
• The history of Gradius: a look back at 30 years of Konami shooting (30 April 2015)
• The Making of Starglider (27 May 2014)
• The making of Star Fox (4 July 2013)

• Space Harrier at HG101
• Space Harrier at Shmuplations
• Space Harrier at the Internet Archive

• SHMUPS! (a resource site for the eponymous genre)

Intriguing games

• Cannonclobber: a run-and-gun game in PuzzleScript!
• piu-piu-SH: a side-scrolling shmup in shell script!
• nInvaders, a better-known shmup for ANSI terminals.