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Celestial Raid is an interesting name for a game considering that the setting is in space. Well that is the name of this indie Shoot’em up #SHMUP game. I briefly played this game after seeing it on Shaun Spalding’s video featurimg some indie games. I have included the video link below. The reason why this game connected was due to the fact that I was also working on a shoot’em up game.

After my play session, I recalled testers of my own game writing extensive writeups stating my game was hard, I wanted to chop that person in the throat as they have yet to see hard but they did explain why it was difficult. So allow me to jump right in and explain this game. Celestial Raid starts the action not holding any hands, matter of fact you are tossed head first into the mayhem, it’s balls and cats to the wall action. The visuals and sound felt nostalgic, you could see a unique love of old school shoot em up as it echoed a modern take on that genre. For a one person production this was done quite well I have to give the creator praise. The creator goes by the acronym EBWC. The bullet hell mayhem was well done but ‘ohh my god’ the mobile version being the version I tested was difficult. Note the game is a one finger game, glide or swipe to move , the shooting is auto. There were points where there was just too much bullets and I was simply overwhelmed, but I did enjoy it note you only have 3 lives so death is forever knocking. At the end of the day it’s worth playing and enjoying. Great job EBWC. That ends my quick and to the point review.

Give EBWC some love here on their portal, I bought the game as I love supporting indie developer being a developer myself EBWC

Shaun’s video below

So earlier this year at GDC like most years the B.I.G(Blacks in Gaming) which caters to minorities not just Black individuals but does have a large number of black individuals hosted a talk with Gordon Bellamy one of many influential that has done numerous things in the gaming avenue and beyond. The event was a mixer where Gordon was speaking about where he has been and so on. This was a very informative mixer which reminded me about the Gerald Lawson’s mixer from 2011. Unfortunately there is not a full recording of his mixer which was also very interesting or if there is I am unsure who has it.

Xbox Gaming for Everyone at the 2017 Game Developer’s Conference Blacks in Gaming Event – Fireside Chat with Gordon Bellamy.