Was that a hint to a Space game? ^^


perhaps cause superku is still alive, while other cows are made into Steaks ^^


I like the game idea and the graphics. This minimalistic style is funny

Have you guys ever seen a cow?

is it a cow? I thought a bear

It definitely is not a cow, I guess their confusion comes from the title Superku, because Ku is similar to the german word for Cow; Kuh (but not the missing h!). So the name can be falsly translated to Supercow.

Haha originally it really was (supposed to be) a cow, but now it's just... ehm... Superku. I'm not sure why most platformers (and many normal games), especially the old games, only feature bats and other default animals as enemies/ characters, is it because of the players or because of the developers?

A little homage to Sonic:

cool, i love the old sonic games

sonic + superku = supersonic

Dont you think it would give a more interesting look if you add a 'cloudy' pattern to the background instead of a rather simple gradiant? Also, you are not using a gaussian blur for your bloom, do you?

EDIT: sonic + superku = supersonicku

Yes, of course. A few months ago I've started to work on simple and fast 2.5D clouds, but sadly they still look like crap. There were scrolling foggy mountains but I've removed them for now because they don't look good currently.

No, I'm using two separate vertical and horizontal blurs that are applied to a scene which only contains the bright areas of the screen (with an emphasis on red>yellow>green colors). It's self written and probably not the best/ cheapest way to achieve a bloom, but I think it looks ok/ pretty good.

I've never written a Gaussian blur before but I think I understand its principle. Let's say I implement this blur technique, would you apply it to the whole screen in one stage or would you extract the bright colors, blur it while working on half the screen size and add the result in a final stage (as I do right now)? Is the Gaussian blur worth the effort?