Strike Force Heroes – A Love Letter to Flash Games

Strike Force Heroes, the traditional Flash arena shooter, is returning in a brand new avatar. Developer Sky9 Games shares its journey with us.

2022 marks the ten years anniversary of both Sky9 Games as a business and the launch of Strike Force Heroes, among the greatest Flash video game strikes. Since beginning the business, Justin and I have actually launched numerous Flash video games, established for mobile, along with PCs and consoles, however what made us go back to Strike Force Heroes was the plain awareness that it (and all our Flash video games) would no longer be playable due to the death of Flash.

The concept was initially to merely port the 3 Strike Force Heroes video games to a brand-new engine and make them readily available in a package on Steam however then we started to question, as all designers undoubtedly do, what would occur if we provided our old Flash video game the real remake treatment– a leading to bottom restoring of the video game with an entirely reworded story, brand name brand-new mechanics, and crisp HD art work.

We initially started establishing in Unreal Engine 4 as that’s what we had actually dealt with for previous titles and we were incredibly pleased with the outcomes aesthetically, if not always in regards to efficiency.

It rapidly emerged why so couple of 2D video games are made in Unreal and we made the switch to Unity however with some extremely essential objectives for what we desired the video game to appear like aesthetically.

The initial Flash variation of Strike Force Heroes was constantly enthusiastic for what it was, including voice performing, cutscenes, customized video games, and lots of weapons and capabilities so we believed it would be best to broaden on that aspiration by going back to the video games that initially motivated us.

We enjoy the art of Metal Slug, the fluidity of the animations, the information of the backgrounds, and the imagination of the circumstances. We enjoy the class system, character and humor of Team Fortress 2. And we enjoy the impressive, remarkable storytelling and over the leading managers of the Metal Gear Solid video games.

We took all that motivation that was constantly the DNA of Strike Force Heroes and simply called everything as much as 11. Now the art might be extremely detailed for 4K display screens, we might have physics things in the environments, and vibrant lighting with particle impacts!

We might have the classes be more specified with characters, characters and special capabilities. The story has actually been reworded to consist of completely animated cutscenes and insane brand-new manager fights!

It was extremely essential for us to preserve the look of the initial Flash video games and to that end, all of the art has actually been produced utilizing Adobe Animate, the follower toFlash

One of the greatest obstacles for any Flash video game was constantly efficiency and with Unity quickly using 60fps+ with split screen and AI bots, that was a distant memory so we might concentrate on making the very best looking variation of Strike Force Heroes possible! Now with the capability to ideal click!

We were lucky adequate to get all the skill from the initial video games back: the renowned signature tune, the extreme music from Waterflame, and the one of a kind voice acting from Sean Chiplock are all back to truly put as much heart and soul into this love letter to a bygone period.

We have actually simply passed our financing objective on Kickstarter which implies we’re formally headed to Steam however as we struck those stretch objectives, we intend to have the ability to bring SFH to consoles, and as numerous gamers as possible!

Strike Force Heroes is presently on Kickstarter with 16 days to go as of this writing. Check out the video game’s Steam page here.

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