Steredenn

Steredenn

Steredenn

Developer:	Pixelnest Studio
Music:	Zander Noriega
Program:	Damien Mayance, Matthieu Oger
Art:	Simon Coroller
Release date:	Steam: 1st October 2015

Steredenn

Steredenn is a roguelike shoot'em up where player takes control of a spaceship that has to fend off space pirates that ambushed and destroyed their carrier ship. Pilot will have to blast through 7 levels of randomly picked enemy waves and face off against the big mean pirate machines that want to ruin your day!

Game was developed by Pixelnest Studio, initially released as early access on Steam in May of 2015, after what it was released on 1st of October 2015. Afterwards game was ported to platforms such as Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One and iPhone/iPad. On 10th of April 2018, Pixelnest released free DLC for Steredenn called Binary Stars, which introduced more player ships, more weapons, co-op mode, boss rush mode, secret bosses, various artifacts that drop from those bosses and various rebalances of the game.

Gameplay Overview

The gameplay overview section starts out with the controls of the game, including all of the buttons used and what they're used for. It's recommended to keep the control layout simple and easy to understand. Feel free to note the directions that the player can move as well, if you wish or if it's notable (horizontal only, 4 way, 8 way, analog, etc). Advanced and strategic ways of manipulating the controls can be included in a following Strategy section, or wherever that information might be the most relevant.

Controls

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Currently only listing keyboard controls for Steam version of the game, although it does support gamepads too. Do note that controls can be rebinded (True for Steam version, no idea about other platforms)

• X: Shoot currently selected weapon
• C: Switch weapon
• V: (Binary Stars) Use ship's Special Ability
• Space: Pick up an upgrade/weapon

Unlockable Modes

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(I assume unlocks that are locked behind game progress count for this section too?)

It is possible to unlock various game modes through progressing far enough in the game. Initially, players will only have usual play available.

• Arena — Unlocked after defeating bosses at the end of the level. It allows to fight bosses that were defeated during the playtime, with the ability to select any of the weapons that the player did pick up in runs before, but without upgrades that bosses drop or rank. Harder bosses, starting from Cruiser (level 4 boss) will be available to fight in the arena after encountering them once, without a requirement of defeating them.
• Superplay — Unlocked after beating Destroyer, boss of the level 3. Allows to start a game with a certain seed to remove the random factor, although scores from these runs do not get uploaded to game's rankings.
• Daily Run — (I don't recall what unlocks it, but it isn't available by default iirc) Allows to enter the daily run that launches usual playthrough, except that it may apply some specific modifiers to the playthrough, like starting with certain weapons, upgrades, (Binary Stars) player ship, or modifiers like double cargo ships. Playing through a daily run will put score from it into a separate leaderboard for that day, which will reset once next daily run starts.
• Boss Rush (Binary Stars) — Face off against pre-selected line up of bosses which resets every week, it uses a special scoresystem where you have to kill bosses as fast as you can, since in this mode the lower score you have - the better. Killing bosses reduces score, every second adds more score, and the results will be put in a separate boss rush scoreboard for that week.

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Characters / Ships / Styles

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Steredenn only features one ship, called Tempest. However, Binary Stars DLC introduces 4 more playable ships, and adds a "special ability" to the Tempest, described below:

• Tempest is the default player ship they start the game with. It features average amount of hit points and speed, and its special ability is a "Razorblade" melee weapon, which can be swapped out for any other melee during the game and it will take the special ability slot.
• Fortress is unlocked after defeating Frigate, boss of the level 2. The slowest ship with the special passive damage reduction, so it can reduce damage of the attacks, effectively giving it more hitpoints. Its special ability, "Rocket Circus", launches a volley of homing rockets that deal significant damage.
• Fury is unlocked after defeating Cruiser, boss of the level 4. It is the fastest ship in the game (Not counting Red Baron's boost), with quite low amount of hitpoints. Its special ability is the "Blink" jump, which allows to teleport to any location on the screen and deal damage in the area you teleport in, to clear out any small enemies if they get in the way.
• Specialist is unlocked after defeating Battleship, boss of the level 6. This ship can only use bot weapons, and has a low amount of hitpoints. However, its special ability "Booster drones" overcharge nearby drones, which allows to deal very high damage in a short burst, given that the bots survive. Specialist also has a passive aura that will turn nearby bots invincible to enemy bullets, which also allows to use those as a shield.
• Red Baron is unlocked after defeating Red Baron secret boss that appears after passing level 3 without taking any damage. Red Baron can not pick up any weapons, however it has its own loadout of 3 different powerful weapons and a boost mode that allows it to go faster, and with a special ability upgrade it allows it to get an invincibility for a short while, although this invincibility will be put on a short cooldown after being used.

Weapons

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Game features a large number of weapons, describing all of which I won't bother for now. Although they are split into separate categories, like bullets, heavy, energy, melee, bots and shield. Game also features a system of some damage types, where certain weapons may be more or less effective against certain enemy types, which may result in some weapons doing their normal damage (enemy will flash red when being hit), 75% of damage (enemy is resistant to that type, flashes orange on hit) or 125% of damage (enemy is weak to that type, purple flash).

This section describes the weapons that you use in the game and elaborates on them further. Stuff like standard shots, focus shots, bombs, weapon pickups that differ in functionality, options, etc. This can be omitted if not relevant to the game in question.

Items

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The game features couple of pick up items — weapons that are dropped through destroyed cargo ships, and the upgrades that drop from the defeated bosses at the end of the level. Binary Stars DLC adds the "medkit" items that may drop from cargo ships if player lacks some health, which will restore some health when being picked up, and the "artifacts" that drop after defeating secret bosses, which can alter the game significantly through powerful boosts, but also significant drawbacks. (Would have to expand on this later)

This section describes any and all collectibles that you acquire in the game. An example being any Power Up items or Medals from Battle Garegga. Include secret items such as extra lives as well.

Rank

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Rank system is not seen by the player, but it uses range of 0 to 1. Each loop in the game adds 0.25 to the rank, and the artifacts (artefacts?) from Binary Stars add 0.15. Rank affects speed and the number of bullets that enemies will shoot, and some specific enemy patterns are linked to some rank ranges.

Loops

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The game features loop system, which can go on indefinitely in theory, but in practice enemy health and damage increase with each loop, which would make mistakes costly and boss fights go on for quite long. Beating the game and entering loop 1 will cause enemies to spawn suicide bullets and bosses will start spawning barriers around them at certain intervals which will absorb some of player's attacks, if they are not using piercing weapons or anything that can deal with barriers quick.

Scoring

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Game features a combo system, adds a multiplier and increases it as player beats waves of enemies in the level while getting more multiplier in case if they have defeated a boss, took no damage, destroyed all enemies in a wave (not counting turrets, hazard environment objects like asteroids or lasers). Taking damage will decrease score multiplier by certain amount, although there are score specific upgrades player can pick up after defeating bosses to reduce the multiplier penalty, or gain more combo per wave, or just straight up gain +100% more score from destroying enemies and objects, which can stack with other +100% score upgrades. If score boost upgrades did happen to get picked up early enough, along with the "Speed of light" artifact, then it is possible to reach combo multiplier of thousands by the 2nd loop. However, the scoreboard on Steam version does cap at about 2.147.483.648 score due to Steam's scoreboard system, and the score beyond that already was achieved.

Strategy

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This section details some particular strategic information about the game and its gameplay, such as hidden 1UPs and some basic scoring tricks. For anything particularly deep or highly complex, you can probably leave it in the Strategy page.

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Story

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Development History

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Version Differences

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Trivia

• There is a chance that a [blue police box] would fly by in the scenery of the level

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Gallery

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Video References

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3. Developer's notes about the rank system on game's Steam forum
4. Developer's notes about combo system on game's Steam forum