BAM! – The SHMUP outline

Stage 1 – Space
Your fighter was sent to backup the forces planetside, however the Unimaginative Evil Empire has put up a blockade to stop you from getting there! Features a large fleet of ships of Deimos and Aeolus and a dense sentry gun field.

Boss: Big Core Rev 1.2

Stage 2 – City
Entering the atmosphere, you enter your target location, the city of <name>, where you blast off enemy assets and emplacements throughout the city. Features terrain, highways, rocket trucks that actually shoot at you, and some interior areas. Later on, the player rises up to above the clouds where he meets the <dragon> (who or what it is tbd) of the game who then starts beaming below and then falls below the clouds. Player persues. Most has the cloud script to look really cool

Boss: the <dragon> (which escapes below to recharge)

Stage 3 – Sky
The Unimaginative Evil Empire, thinking it hasn’t done yet enough damage to the poor city blow, decides to launch the macros missile massacre of giant missiles from orbit. The player gets the opportunity to blow  some of these up, but it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t. The player’s goal is to persue the <dragon>.

Boss: none

Stage 4 – Ruins
The player returns to the city yet again, now mostly in ruins and flooded from destroyed levies after the orbital bombardment. How the <dragon> has taken its hiding here somewhere, and it’s the players job to find and destroy it. Most resistance in this stage is what’s left over of the enemy forces after carelessly missiling the poor city and the <dragon> who potshots the player periodically in the stage. Boss arena takes place in a vortex out in the ocean.

Boss: the <dragon> (This time actually dies!)

Stage 5 – Underwater Base
Prior to your arrival, it seems the Unimaginative Evil Empire had deployed a massive underwater base to deploy more military assets in the case that the space attack failed. Your job is to destroy it.

Boss: I don’t know right now.

Stage 6 – Caverns?

Stage 7 - Forest?

Stage 8 – Formidable Guardians
Your return to space is met with resistance as the Unimaginative Evil Empire greets you with their newest evil supermachines. Features boss battle after boss battle.

Boss: Shining Core, Rolling Core, Covered Core Mk II, Dellinger Core

Stage 9 – Enemy HQ
After all this fending off of enemies, it’s now time to strike back! Put an end to their fleet once and for all. Go inside the supermassive fleet command ship and destroy the fleetmaster.

Boss: Fleetmaster

Stage 10 - ?????
As the Fleetmaster falls into destruction, a wormhole opens up, presumably from where these bastards came from. The bizarre dichotomy of the Empire is revealed in a world where things make absolutely no sense and everything is very…cute and rather young. The origin of all this reveals itself here.

Boss: OVAL