It’s still alpha, but it’s getting there… Bound to inspire the likes is Lokaire’s 3D engineered homebrew game: Merc Roid. And we have this update straight from the source –

In this update I mainly took care of bug fixes. The missile count is now good. The monsters move now (but gravity doesn’t apply to them for some weird reason). I added some pictures and sounds for when in the PSP’s vsh menu. There were some more behind the scenes updates to the LTE engine. Mainly the collision response animator was updated to the Irrlicht-1.5 code. It behaves exactly the same as before though. I changed up a few of the images to make things look better.

Earlier in the week we covered Merc Roid and posted a pre-0.3.5 video, which can be viewed here.

Download: Merc Roid v0.3.5 (Alpha)

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Soon to be [officially] entered into Homebrew Idol 2, and it’s no doubt bringing some stiff competition, is Lokiare’s Merc Roid: a 3D Metroid Clone developed using the LTE Game Engine. Lokaire has made slight modifications to the LTE engine in order to accommodate certain things; we’ll have that available for you after, should you need it.

Merc Roid is currently in the alpha stage of development; meaning, bugs do exist, you can expect bizarre behaviour at some points during game play, and it of course lacks certain functionality. Needless to say, Merc Roid is a work-in-progress.

Please report any issues via the forum release thread.

Controls:

• L-Button: Jump (later I will have a system where you jump higher/further based on how much you do it).
• R-Button: Shoot, hold for charge beam (shoots missiles when in missile mode, appears to charge but has no effect on the fire-power when in missile mode).
• Analog-Nub: Aims the gun (moves the camera).
• Triangle: Moves forward (move speed will vary based on how much you move).
• Square: Strafe left.
• Circle: Strafe right.
• Cross: Move Backward.
• Select: Switch between missiles and beam mode.

TO DO:

• Create a story-line.
• Create a menu screen.
• Add a save feature.
• Add more monsters.
• Add a few boss monsters.

Download: Merc Roid v0.3 (Alpha)

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