#scurge: hive

[gubbles-owo]

lines in scurge: hive that honestly go way harder than they should:

[blazehedgehog]

Have you ever played Scurge: Hive?

The name rings a bell for sure but I don't think I ever touched it, no. Looking it up now, it looks like it was late enough in the GBA's life that it was cross-gen with the Nintendo DS, so by then I may have moved on from paying so close attention to GBA releases. (The same thing happened with that surprisingly decent Star Wars Episode 3 brawler; I ignored it on GBA)

Looks pretty neat, though, gotta say. A top-down Metroid back then would have seemed pretty cool.

[fluffy-wolfe]

A commission where the client wanted Jenosa from Scurge: Hive drawn in anger and with flames erupting around her.

[high-on-e]

since i started my metroid journey with zero mission, i was on the lookout for other gba games i might like, ideally some hidden gems no one talks about. i found scurge: hive and it's like metroid and it also has a cool gal as a protagonist! ever since i found it i can't help but ship samus and jenosa a bit :3

[todayimgonnaplay]

Prettiest Game Boy Advance games

I'm on the hunt for some aesthetically nice looking GBA games (some of them are also my personal favourites overall) And here's what I've found so far:

TMNT (2007)

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Sonic Battle

Catwoman

Comix Zone

Mother 2

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure

Sword of Mana

Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone

Scurge Hive

[lunatic-harness]

finished zero mission. so after that i got dread, and then the prime games, and then return of samus, then fusion and am2r perhaps and then after that i writhe in despair because most metroidvanias take after vania and not metroid

but there’s still uh. scurge: hive, shadow complex, the mummy demastereds. and then super metroid rom hacks. yeah

[lesserknownwaifus]

Jenosa Arma from Scurge: Hive

[g4zdtechtv]

FULL EPISODE: X-Play - Just How Low Can Production Values Go?

And still technically be television.

[captainchaosartworks]

Jenosa Arma from Scurge: Hive

[vgm-in-irregular-time-of-the-day]

DAY 626) Scurge: Hive - Forest Field Research Laboratory

Composer: Jake Kaufman

So I tried really hard to find something from a Lilo and Stitch game or something, to do for day 626 (especially since lab experiment creatures as a CONCEPT are very important to me, it’s my whole personal aesthetic), but...I listened to every single soundtrack from that series that I could find and there wasn’t a single track in odd time. ...So instead you get this tangentially vaguely relevant thing from a game about a completely different type of dangerous alien lifeform >_>.

I’m pretty sure most people don’t think of dissonant tension prog like this when thinking of Jake Kaufman but...I do, it’s my favorite stuff by him for sure. This might actually be my favorite thing he’s composed lol.

Counting the tempo as around 186, but you could easily write this at half that and just

(0:00 - 0:53) 48 bars of 7/8

(0:53 - 1:15) 16 bars of 4/4

(1:15 - 1:35) [7/8, 7/8, 7/8, 11/8]x3, 7/8, 7/8, 7/8, 9/8

(1:35 - 2:02) 24 bars of 7/8

[loop]

I love a lot of the vaguely polymetric-ish elements of this too.

The bass part basically has a 9+9+10 feel to it, which makes it sound like the track is going to be in 9 until that bass ostinato loops, but obviously under all of that is the 7+7+7+7 drum stuff. So you have two different things adding up to 28 over the course of 4 bars, just in completely different ways, so it feels polymetric even if it’s not haha.

The dotted 8th delay echo in that panning harp-like part that comes in at :21 only adds to the layered feel of so many different groupings within the same piece of music, even if in the end everything adds up to 28 or some other even multiple of 7.

Another pretty cool thing here is the fact that 7+7+7+11 adds up to 32...meaning you can play 4/4 over it. So this track DOES SO and takes slight elements from the 4/4 section before it and layers them on top and it fits perfectly. 

I also like how the breakbeat drums from the 7+7+7+11 section get added to the straight 7/8 section afterwards as if that section is still in 4/4, really smooths out the feel of the timesig change.

There’s also lots of cool use of shuffle feel drums against the constant straight 16ths/8ths of everything else going on.

Overall this just does everything I like rhythmically, and has the dissonant atonality I’m a huge fan of as well!

[gubbles-owo]

recently i picked up that scurge hive clone project again after over a year of abandoning it in the hopes that maybe i can actually get more done with it this time and let me present you with my greatest creation ever:

SHORB

i love this stupid idiot. so goddamn muc h

[csarracenian]

A commission for @etherschooner Samus Aran and another fellow space bounty hunter Jenosa Arma, from Scurge Hive

[posthumanwanderings]

Game Boy Advance 21st Birthday Bash Stream

0:00 Pre-Stream Jams (Zone of the Enders: Fist of Mars music) 5:30 Advance Guardian Heroes 35:00 Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II 1:00:50 Ultimate Card Games 1:47:30 Virtua Tennis 2:22:00 Space Channel 5: Ulala's Cosmic Attack 2:42:10 Jet Grind Radio 2:56:10 ChuChu Rocket! 3:03:30 Sonic Battle 3:24:20 Astro Boy: Omega Factor 3:59:30 Mega Man Battle Network 4:28:40 Iridion 3D 4:57:30 Intermission 5:13:00 Mega Man Zero 2 5:39:50 Metroid Fusion 6:02:20 Sigma Star Saga 6:22:50 Scurge: Hive 6:31:20 Metalgun Slinger 6:41:30 Iridion II 6:57:00 Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars 7:34:00 End of Stream Jam

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Juka and the Monophonic Menace

Game development is an exceptionally difficult process, and many developers don’t get a chance to make more than a few games. Orbital Media, a company based in Canada, was founded in 2003, but only released three Game Boy Advance games (and a DS port) before their closure in 2014, with no traces of activity in any other venture. The team made a strong first impression with Racing Gears Advance, an audiovisual spectacle that managed to garner critical acclaim from the likes of IGN, Gamespot, and 1UP in 2005. Their first 2006 title, Juka and the Monophonic Menace, was a different beast entirely, opting to combine exploratory adventuring with a simplistic alchemy system and a unique battle system. The game had the most lukewarm reception of the company’s three titles, failing to impress like Racing Gears Advance or provide a spin on a beloved formula the way the Metroid-inspired Scurge: Hive would in the same year. 

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[metaljesusrocks]

Here are 40+ games from my Nintendo DS collection including gameplay footage. 

GAMES SHOWN: Ghost Trick Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors Impossible Mission Little Red Riding Hood’s Zombie BBQ Ōkamiden Contra 4 Point Blank DS Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume Chrono Trigger Legacy of Ys Book I & II

Suikoden Tierkreis Orcs & Elves Front Mission Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! The Dark Spire Time Hollow Boing! Docomodake DS Trackmania Turbo: Build to Race Retro Game Challenge Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia

Aliens Infestation The Legendary Starfy Mario vs Donkey Kong 1 & 2 Metroid Prime Pinball Prince of Persia: The Fallen King Batman the Brave and the Bold Bangai-O: Spirits Nostalgia The World Ends with You Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits Izuna: The Legend of the Unemployed Ninja 1 & 2 Scurge: Hive Snowboard Kids Moon Soul Bubbles Dementium 1 & 2 Solatorobo: The Red Hunter

[risolesgames]

Scurge: Hive Action and shooting on isometric view. This is a gba port. #gba #ds #nintendods #scurge #retrogames #retrogamescollection #gamescollection #ニンテンドーDS #ニンテンドー #gameboyadvance #games #jogos https://www.instagram.com/p/CGq9lKlHVJf/?igshid=wpnadsuahhfb