Making Shadow of the Beast in Shmup Creator

SHMUP Creator used to make Amiga cult game Shadow of the Beast

Why?

I wanted to test a couple of ideas in SHMUP Creator to make some multi-layered parallax backgrounds.

So why not to be inspired by well-known Amiga’s action side-scroller Shadow of the Beast?

Even if the speed is not quite the same, I tried to be the closest as possible as the game, but in the whole I’m happy with the results.

It would be perfect for prototyping any kind of shmup using these kind of scrolling backgrounds, even better with a bit of vertical offset too!

Developed by UK-based game company Reflections and published by Psygnosis, Shadow of the Beast set the standard for its graphics and its musics.

A true Amiga showcase at the time (for the stores too :D) but both gameplay and difficulty were horrible to say the least 🙂

During the past years, Reflections was part of GT Intereactive then Atari and now part of Ubisoft.

Sony owns Psygnosis brand and it hasn’t been used since 2000.

Perfect tool by Bulo Studio to build shoot’em up on your own without any lines of code!

SHMUP Creator is very powerful and easy to use with tons of parameters for every objects.

Developers are working on new features.

⚠ This project is for training and prototyping purpose only.