Only a few days left till the shmup Hyper Echelon, formerly known as Thyrian Defenders (which has nothing to do with the shmup Tyrian, hence the name change to avoid confusion), launches its Titan star fighter onto an unsuspecting alien horde of the Cyan Galaxy.
The artist on the game is none other than Raymond ‘Slynyrd’ Schlitter whose excellent pixel art tutorials I’ve been meaning to tout since forever, but haven’t gotten around to yet. As a long-time supporter of his Patreon it’s been nice to follow his journey, both with the learning resources as well as the ramping production of Hyper Echelon assets, which are an embodiment of the art style and approach from his tutorials.
In his latest Patreon post we finally also received the release trailer in the anticipation of the November 11 launch on Steam (macOS, Windows). I’ll let it speak about the gameplay for itself.