We’re happy to announce our next game: OverWave. When [generic enemy army] suddenly attacks [peaceful civilization], it’s up to our two juvenile prodigy pilots Nero and Soledad to fight off the invaders, and teach them a lesson in humility at the same time.

A vertical scrolling shoot ‘em up action game from Monokey. For 1-2 players. Coming when it’s done.

“So what’s the deal with this? Where’s Force Majeure?” you might ask. Well, it’s still in development and we have every intention of finishing it. We decided to go back to square one and rebuild the game with a new engine and tools, just so we could make it as awesome as we’ve always envisioned. While fiddling around with the new engine we decided it’d be a good idea to test it out properly. OverWave was born out of that.

Lookie!

I didn’t have to go up against Yoko Kanno or Mitsuda, but it’s still quite an honor to beat out “real pros”. Thanks, GFF!

I wrote a quick FAQ about Force Majeure on the forum since we seem to be getting a few queries about it lately, and I figured it’d be a nice way to write an informative post on the forum. So check it out, and if you have any questions that haven’t been answered you can ask them on the forum (or email them, of course)

Directlink: Force Majeure FAQ.

What’s this link then!? We’ve finally figured out a solution to the spam problem, and so the forum is (tentatively) back in action. Drop us a line, just to say hi!

I know we’ve been neglecting the site a bit, and I personally feel super bad about it, but we’re actually working on some really cool new stuff behind the scenes. God’s honest! More on this soon, we’re sort of planning to change directions a little bit with this website too. Maybe!

… but we came close! Force Majeure made it third in the Autofire 2007 Competition. Check the results and the rest of the winners here: http://shmup-dev.com/af2k7/documents/24.html