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Cave developing shooter for Windows Phone 7

by Jordan Mallory on Jul 29th 2011 2:00AM

As far as Deathsmiles developer Cave is concerned, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform can go to hell. Bullet-hell, that is! Makoto Asada, head of Cave's Game Development Department, has announced via dev-blog that the company is currently developing a shooter for Microsoft's burgeoning smartphone OS.

Beyond the fact that development is somewhere between 20 and 30 percent complete, details are scarce. No screenshots or other information have been given, though the announcement refers to the game as an original title, which more than likely means it won't be a port of Cave's recent Deathsmiles release for iOS (above). It's also safe to assume that the game will be bewilderingly difficult.

Via: Andriasang
Source: Cocolog-Nifty

Tags: bullet-hell, Cave, Deathsmiles, iOS, mobile, shooter, Windows-Phone-7, WP7

Reader Comments (19)

yeah im sure you can really percisely navigate a bullet hell game on a touchscreen

@ORTHROK I play Corona and OMG! on my WP7 and as long as you're not expecting Touhou levels, they're decent experiences for a mobile.

@Entegy It's not a proper bullet-hell game if it's not striving to be like Touhou.

@Faceless Troll But as Orthrok point out, that would be (no pun intended) hell on a touchscreen. Adapt to your platform.

@Entegy I can't tell if he was being sarcastic or not, because all the Cave shooters on the iPhone have played just fine.

@ORTHROK Man you must been living in a cave or something, touch controls for cave shooters were perfected on ios a looooong time ago.

@ORTHROK

souns like your fingers is just wrong

Why not on something like iOS or Android where there are more users?

@Tihn It's been on ios for a while along with loads of other shooters. Where've you been?

@Tihn
3 reasons
1) To help build a new user base on another platform
2) Microsoft probably gives lucrid benefits right now for developers willing to make exclusives for WP7 games
3) XNA is a C# based language which makes it really easy to pick up and learn if you're aiming for a programming career and you could very easily side project something in XNA.

@Grimbear13

XNA is not a language, it's an API.

I hope it gets an iOS port. I love Deathsmiles. It could do with more stages and variety but other than that, the game rules.

Also, down with the spam-bots. There are about as many of their posts here as there are legitimate user comments. Joystiq, please find a way to stop them.

@TCJJ it's on ios.

This might be cool. I'll have to try it out when it hits the marketplace. It will give me something to play when I finally finish The Harvest and Tentacles.

way cool i love games with fire in it if this is coms outr tosday im going back to diepers i already told my dad i wood if we download it

Just give us Akai Katana playable in the west =/

"@Tihn
3 reasons
1) To help build a new user base on another platform
2) Microsoft probably gives lucrid benefits right now for developers willing to make exclusives for WP7 games
3) XNA is a C# based language which makes it really easy to pick up and learn if you're aiming for a programming career and you could very easily side project something in XNA. "

Also Cave can easily port the game over to XBLA which they have had some success with their games on the platform. With MS giving some coin to the development, makes the risk much less risky.

I'm talking about this new game. I know Deathsmiles is already on iOS because I own it.

As a WP7 user I am looking forward to a bullet hell game from Cave. On a side note, anyone on Joystiq tried Tentacles? It's really, really good!!!!

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