love2D famicom danmaku project

what is this?

it's an attempt at a touhou-oriented danmaku engine styled after the famicom/NES using löve2D.
of course, the actual hardware limitations are absent, and i don't really plan on strictly following or implementing recreations of most of them (sprite limit per scanline, amount of background/foreground graphics that can be loaded at once, etc) -- but i will keep them in mind and try to respect them as much as logically possible for a bullet hell game (it's just a visuals thing, anyways).

main inspirations are:

• Touhou Komakyou (Touhou Wiki entry), a famicom-style recreation of Touhou Koumakyou's first three stages, as well mockups made by its developer;
• Touhou Rououmu (developer's website), an actual NES game which is a remix of Touhou Youyoumu.

for now it's mostly just a "for fun" thing, though i do have some ideas on what i could use it for.

here's what i've got so far:

• The Bare Minimum: basic sprite/animation system and collision detection;
• three player characters: reimu hakurei, marisa kirisame and youmu konpaku, each with unique shottypes;
• bullets: variable hitbox sizes depending on type, as well as indexed sprite rotation for bullets that need it;
• general bullet pattern funcionalities;
• in-game pattern editor and previewer.

next steps:

• basic boss functionality;
• player death;
• [?] more player characters (they're fun to make!).

updates

05 november 2024

• implemented enemy functionality for movement and shooting;
• changed player and bullet hitboxes from squares to circles for better feel and accuracy;
• added sanae kochiya as a playable character;
• implemented a scenes system (!).