Revenge of the Blue Phoenix
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
Use joystick (or emulator arrow keys, fire button to shoot). You'll either need an atari800+ or emulator such as Altirra.exe to play it.
When you need more enemies, hit space bar. (and go phoenix mode). After 10 kills you 'evolve'. This project was meant for a retro game jam, I did not have enough time to finish and polish. It is more of a demo and in the interest of the jam decided to release an unfinished project.
Feel free to goad me on to finish it. Missing are the following:
Full game doc/planning
Sound effects, music
Backstory
Here is the entry page for the jam: https://itch.io/jam/exotic-old-system-jam-2/rate/1473827
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Nice beginning ! Keep on doing your best.
Have tried it on Argon (emulator for Android) and it mostly works -- it would help to have a new wave of enemies automatically generate rather than needing the space bar to trigger that (which would also then make it "couch compliant")
Funny, the first time I played it, I thought I was the ship on the bottom, not the top ;-)
Look forward to a version with sound!
Thanks, btw if you could enable artifacting I think it adds to the colors. I'm playing around with fastbasic to see how far I can go with it.
Yes, we can enable artifacting by setting a flag on the server for a particular game. That would get the arttifacted color, at the expense of the text characters then looking blurry. Another approach you could look into would be to use the antic graphic modes that are 4 color without artifacting (the pixels are 2 color clocks wide, and 1 scan line tall). ie, Antic mode $E