Shmadow

Released: Nov 3, 2015
Platforms: WindowsmacOSLinux
Last updated: 06 Sep 2026, 09:10 GMT

Updates & announcements

10 posts

24 Mar 2016Developer post
Update 1.3 - The Edge of Night
New Mode "Switch", this mode is unlocked by earning 100k points on Nightmare difficulty, if you already have the bomb weapon unlocked you'll already have it enabled after the update. During this mode at the start of every boss fight the direction that enemies spawn in will switch
24 Mar 2016Developer post
Update 1.3 - The Edge of Night
New Mode "Switch", this mode is unlocked by earning 100k points on Nightmare difficulty, if you already have the bomb weapon unlocked you'll already have it enabled after the update. During this mode at the start of every boss fight the direction that enemies spawn in will switch
04 Feb 2016Developer post
Update 1.2.5 : Power Overwhelming
Power cap In order to make highscoring casual runs more interesting without changing the balance for new players, we're trying out a power up cap of 4 of each type; damage, fire rate, pierce, spread shot, and health, and after you've maxed out on 4, any above that will drop on de
04 Feb 2016Developer post
Update 1.2.5 : Power Overwhelming
Power cap In order to make highscoring casual runs more interesting without changing the balance for new players, we're trying out a power up cap of 4 of each type; damage, fire rate, pierce, spread shot, and health, and after you've maxed out on 4, any above that will drop on de
18 Jan 2016Developer post
Update 1.2 : Apex
New Game Mode "Boss Mode", this mode is unlocked by defeating each boss once during any of the other modes, if you already have the laser weapon unlocked you'll already have it enabled after the update. During this mode we've made some tweaks to Boss and Shadow spawning as well a
18 Jan 2016Developer post
Update 1.2 : Apex
New Game Mode "Boss Mode", this mode is unlocked by defeating each boss once during any of the other modes, if you already have the laser weapon unlocked you'll already have it enabled after the update. During this mode we've made some tweaks to Boss and Shadow spawning as well a
25 Nov 2015Developer post
Update 1.1 : Even Darker
Additional Shot Modifiers Piercing Shot Powerup: Snake boss, Blob boss, and Side boss will now have this stat increase power up in their drop table, with a close to 15% chance to drop. Piercing shot gives all bullets health, which gets subtracted against enemies that it hits; if
Additional Shot Modifiers
Piercing Shot Powerup:
Snake boss, Blob boss, and Side boss will now have this stat increase power up in their drop table, with a close to 15% chance to drop.
Piercing shot gives all bullets health, which gets subtracted against enemies that it hits; if you hit a small shadow the bullet will continue traveling and potentially hit a 2nd target dealing reduced damage based on health remaining. As you stack this power up without dying you'll be able to hit larger shadows and still be able to pierce them dealing more damage. Bullets won't be piercing through bosses, so while shadows may no longer block your shots, you won't deal "more" damage to bosses.
Bullet health: Rank 0: 1, Rank 1: 100, Rank 2: 150, Rank 3: 200, etc
Shadows are generally around 75-100 health, increasing with difficulty
Damage Powerup:
Snake boss, Blob boss, and Side boss will now have this stat increase power up in their drop table, with a close to 15% chance to drop. Bullet size will increase, making it easier to hit targets and larger glow radius. Bullet damage increases 7.5% off base bullet damage.
Bullet Damage: Rank 0: 200, Rank 1: 215, Rank 2: 230, Rank 3: 245, etc
Rebalancing
Spiral Weapon & Galaxy Weapon: We wanted to make these stand out from eachother more, with the Galaxy (Twin Shot Spiral) to feel stat wise more like an upgrade to the Spiral weapon which is the starter unlock while still having their own pros and cons. The Spiral weapon will be easier to spam, giving you a constant flow of screen clear; while the Galaxy weapon has more of a punch for when you need it most.
Spiral Weapon Charge Up Cooldown: ~~100~~ - > 80
Galaxy Weapon Charge Up Cooldown: ~~100~~ - > 110
Spiral Weapon Total Bullets Fired: ~~100~~ - > 50
Galaxy Weapon Total Bullets Fired: ~~100~~ - > 120
Spiral Weapon Fire Speed: ~~0.02~~ - > 0.03
Galaxy Weapon Fire Speed: ~~0.03~~ - > 0.02
Big Shot Weapon:
Nerf hammer was calling, we still want to keep the strategy of using this point blank vs a boss, but this will help make it so you can't get up use this on every boss you see.
Big Shot Charge Up Cooldown: ~~150~~ - > 200
More Shadows
Spawn limit increase from difficulty: .1 - > .14
This should help create darker screens as difficulty in the game goes up, as well as on nightmare.
Time to Chase - Two New Bosses!
Names are work in progress, we'd love to hear your suggestions!
"Chaser Spawner" boss : This boss will stay on the right side of the screen pelleting you with a steady stream of bullets as well as ocassionally launching a Chaser enemy either on the top or bottom of the screen.
"Death" boss : Spawning with a wave of Chasers circling your location, this boss will hunt you you, hitting him with bullets will slow down his speed, giving you the distance away from him that you'll need. Once you defeat him he explodes into a barrage of bullet, leaving death in its wake.
Spawning of Chaser waves has been removed outside of the "Death" boss, individual chasers are still enabled.
Bugs Fixed

Snake boss will now properly drop a powerup on death in the event that another boss exists.
Original post
25 Nov 2015Developer post
Update 1.1 : Even Darker
Additional Shot Modifiers Piercing Shot Powerup: Snake boss, Blob boss, and Side boss will now have this stat increase power up in their drop table, with a close to 15% chance to drop. Piercing shot gives all bullets health, which gets subtracted against enemies that it hits; if
Additional Shot Modifiers
Piercing Shot Powerup:
Snake boss, Blob boss, and Side boss will now have this stat increase power up in their drop table, with a close to 15% chance to drop.
Piercing shot gives all bullets health, which gets subtracted against enemies that it hits; if you hit a small shadow the bullet will continue traveling and potentially hit a 2nd target dealing reduced damage based on health remaining. As you stack this power up without dying you'll be able to hit larger shadows and still be able to pierce them dealing more damage. Bullets won't be piercing through bosses, so while shadows may no longer block your shots, you won't deal "more" damage to bosses.
Bullet health: Rank 0: 1, Rank 1: 100, Rank 2: 150, Rank 3: 200, etc
Shadows are generally around 75-100 health, increasing with difficulty
Damage Powerup:
Snake boss, Blob boss, and Side boss will now have this stat increase power up in their drop table, with a close to 15% chance to drop. Bullet size will increase, making it easier to hit targets and larger glow radius. Bullet damage increases 7.5% off base bullet damage.
Bullet Damage: Rank 0: 200, Rank 1: 215, Rank 2: 230, Rank 3: 245, etc
Rebalancing
Spiral Weapon & Galaxy Weapon: We wanted to make these stand out from eachother more, with the Galaxy (Twin Shot Spiral) to feel stat wise more like an upgrade to the Spiral weapon which is the starter unlock while still having their own pros and cons. The Spiral weapon will be easier to spam, giving you a constant flow of screen clear; while the Galaxy weapon has more of a punch for when you need it most.
Spiral Weapon Charge Up Cooldown: ~~100~~ - > 80
Galaxy Weapon Charge Up Cooldown: ~~100~~ - > 110
Spiral Weapon Total Bullets Fired: ~~100~~ - > 50
Galaxy Weapon Total Bullets Fired: ~~100~~ - > 120
Spiral Weapon Fire Speed: ~~0.02~~ - > 0.03
Galaxy Weapon Fire Speed: ~~0.03~~ - > 0.02
Big Shot Weapon:
Nerf hammer was calling, we still want to keep the strategy of using this point blank vs a boss, but this will help make it so you can't get up use this on every boss you see.
Big Shot Charge Up Cooldown: ~~150~~ - > 200
More Shadows
Spawn limit increase from difficulty: .1 - > .14
This should help create darker screens as difficulty in the game goes up, as well as on nightmare.
Time to Chase - Two New Bosses!
Names are work in progress, we'd love to hear your suggestions!
"Chaser Spawner" boss : This boss will stay on the right side of the screen pelleting you with a steady stream of bullets as well as ocassionally launching a Chaser enemy either on the top or bottom of the screen.
"Death" boss : Spawning with a wave of Chasers circling your location, this boss will hunt you you, hitting him with bullets will slow down his speed, giving you the distance away from him that you'll need. Once you defeat him he explodes into a barrage of bullet, leaving death in its wake.
Spawning of Chaser waves has been removed outside of the "Death" boss, individual chasers are still enabled.
Bugs Fixed

Snake boss will now properly drop a powerup on death in the event that another boss exists.
Original post
05 Nov 2015Developer post
Shmadow @ IGDA San Diego - 11/5/2015
Hey everyone! We'll be demoing Shmadow with the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) at the New School of Architecture & Design in San Diego tomorrow (11/5/2015) from 6:30pm to 7:30pm followed by a workshop on ZBrushing
05 Nov 2015Developer post
Shmadow @ IGDA San Diego - 11/5/2015
Hey everyone! We'll be demoing Shmadow with the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) at the New School of Architecture & Design in San Diego tomorrow (11/5/2015) from 6:30pm to 7:30pm followed by a workshop on ZBrushing

Shmadow

Updates & announcements

Update 1.3 - The Edge of Night

New Mode

New Track

Balance & Tweaks

More coming soon!

Update 1.3 - The Edge of Night

New Mode

New Track

Balance & Tweaks

More coming soon!

Update 1.2.5 : Power Overwhelming

Power cap

Lazerz

Start of Season 2

Update 1.2.5 : Power Overwhelming

Power cap

Lazerz

Start of Season 2

Update 1.2 : Apex

New Game Mode

Uncapped

Update 1.2 : Apex

New Game Mode

Uncapped

Update 1.1 : Even Darker

Additional Shot Modifiers

Rebalancing

Time to Chase - Two New Bosses!

Bugs Fixed

Update 1.1 : Even Darker

Additional Shot Modifiers

Rebalancing

Time to Chase - Two New Bosses!

Bugs Fixed

Shmadow @ IGDA San Diego - 11/5/2015

Shmadow @ IGDA San Diego - 11/5/2015