Welcome to the first game competition on Amigans.net!
For the month of June (which has already started) we will be playing.... Blastaway by RETREAM!
Blastaway is a highly playable and entertaining arena shooter, gameplay-wise heavily and shamelessly inspired by Wizard of Wor and graphically somewhat inspired by The Chaos Engine. Graphics have been pixelled by hand and music has been tracked as modules to let the player live a true 16 bit experience. And the 50 arenas, spread over 5 different stages, have been designed to make that experience intensely enjoyable... and last long! Are you brave enough to step into the arenas and clear them of the wors they swarm with?
To download the game and for more information about it, please visit the official webpage:
The game comes with an installer, so should be quite straight forward to install on your system.
The goal of the contest is to see who can get the highest score in the game! Who will be the Amigans.net champion of Blastaway by RETREAM?
Post scores below - screenshots or photos taken with your cellphone is fine.
Contest runs until the end of the month (June 30th).
-----( Final Standings )-----
1) Levellord - June 28th - 667,215 points - Winner 2) VooDoo - June 30th - 649,360 points - Runner-up 3) mcleppa - June 30th - 544,805 points - Third
4) 328gts - June 30th - 461,420 points 5) Antique - June 14th - 324,690 points 6) AmigaOldSkooler (Puni) - June 25th - 185,420 points 7) walkero - June 29th - 147,985 points 8) LiveForIt - June 22nd - 131,875 points 9) Trixie - June 12th - 58,570 points
The Blastaway contest has now ended and we can congratulate Levellord as the new lord of Blastaway! Congrats and well played mate!
Big thanks to all who participated and helped spread the word about the competition. It has been great fun and I'm already looking forward to the next competition. Hope you will join us for some more AmigaOS 4 gaming action.
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Thanks for choosing Blastaway! I have shared the news on Twitter. I wish the initiative lots of success (I can't afford to participate to compos, though ).
@participants
Have fun!
RETREAM - retro dreams for Amiga, Commodore 64 and PC
Let's kick this off! Here is my first highscore entry:
I've resized the image and saved it as png because of the original image size (1080p, 6 megz large bmp).
Really good game: great gameplay, awesome GFX's, I enjoyed it more than I expected. And with the AIA, it's playable with joystick (game did not recognize my joystick)! Excelent work @saimo, thank you!
Thanks for creating such a great game and also for spreading the word about the contest!
My pleasure!
@levellord
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Really good game: great gameplay, awesome GFX's, I enjoyed it more than I expected.
Glad to hear this :) Thanks.
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And with the AIA, it's playable with joystick (game did not recognize my joystick)!
Maybe I know why: for some reason, some controllers are reported and handled by SDL as analogue (even if they do have digital controls); Blastaway (and the same goes for BOH, Huenison and KOG, which all share the same code) asks for digital controls and thus gets "no device" as an answer.
RETREAM - retro dreams for Amiga, Commodore 64 and PC
Lol, I hate those 2 flying nasties at the end of each level, so hard to shot!
Anyway, here is my latest score, I manged to beat 328gts' score by couple of 1000's:
Sorry, I forgot to put date, I was so excited, I'll do it next time, promise! BTW, F1 saves screen print in RAM at 320x256 and F2 saves at full desktop resolution.
levellord wrote:Lol, I hate those 2 flying nasties at the end of each level, so hard to shot!
Tip (for everyone, of course!): before killing the last "normal" enemy, locate a place that can be reached easily and that offers protection from at least two sides, and then move there and wait for the baddies - you'll be able to kill them even with just a single shot (and gain extra points)!
@all
Glad to see you're having fun! Keep at it and you'll soon break the 5-digits barrier ;)
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