We couldn’t finish retrospecting Captain Commander without showing these mutated Aliens in the Alien Science Lab.
I don’t think they enjoy their mutated states very much..
Here’s a mockup of the jailbreak cutscene in Level 2 of Captain Commander.
Once he has the key, he uses it as his weapon until he recovers his weapon gear.
A few more Captain Commander animations today, (before we move on to retrospecting Retro Unicorn Attack on Monday)
Here’s one of the alien dogs in it’s super- complex, frame-filled running animation ;)
This is the 5th Boss in Captain Commander, that unfortunately did not make it into the game.
The game turned out to be more complex than we imagined (surprise!) so we had to cut the final two levels. Escape from the alien planet (level 6 - See image here) & survive the descent back down to the surface of Earth (level 7 - we had just started designing this one).
Basically, Captain Commander defeats the Mother Brain, gets all the rescued humans into a space-faring vessel (kinda packing in clown-car style ;), & escape the planet, piloting his way through the alien defenses & space junk, reaching the large 3-piece orbiting Boss. He needed to survive while destroying the shield generator & them jump to FTL speed back to earth.
Once he reaches Earth, since he’s in an alien ship, the Earth military attacks full force. He was to dodge and weave his way down to the surface, where they would finally recognize it was him in the ship. (I guess the Alien ship’s comm-system was busted in the dramatic escape from the planet).
End cut-scene: would have been Captain Commander landing safely with happy banter between he and the earth military commanders, and the rescued scientists all leaping out of the small alien ship,(again clown car style ;)
The end. or is it.. ??
A couple mockups of the 3rd Boss Battle in Captain Commander.
This one is a little crazy! Super overconfident, but of course he underestimates Captain Commander. this one is stationed in the Alien “Science” Laboratory, guarding the exit to the ships.
And here’s a rough mockup of the basics of the 2nd Boss Battle in Captain Commander. A trio of overconfident hostile Aliens.
It might seem like Captain Commander is the hostile one here, coming to their planet & wreaking havoc, but he’s on a rescue mission. They’ve captured a number of humans (and are doing twisted experiments on them) and he’s here to liberate them! He will do what it takes!
Here’s a mockup of (roughly) the stages of the first Boss Battle in Captain Commander.
It was our first oversized boss battle ever. There are 4 of them total in the game.
Gamma Bros, of course, had 3 epic Boss battles prior to these, but they were all similarly sized to the bros. They were no less badass though.. especially the dreaded & powerful Death Head..
