Game Competition for September 2023- Open Tyrian !

Welcome to Septembers gaming contest here on Amigans.net!

For the month of September 2023 we'll be enjoying a vertical shooter from our very own HunoPPC called Open Tyrian.

The game is available as freeware on HunoPPC's website. If you enjoy the game please consider sending HunoPPC a donation.

http://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net/sit ... ware_files/opentyrian.lha

We'll be playing in Normal mode with "Player Arcade" mode and "Episode 1: Escape". Player with the highert Episode 1 high score has all the glory! This isn't a quick game so keep playing levels until you get to the end of Episode1 to enter your High Score...take a break or two and pause the game to reach the end of Episode 1 without your hand cramping

As usual post a screenshot of your high score here.

Good luck to all participants! Have Fun!


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1. 328gts- 176,979
2. AmigaOldskooler- 149,491
3. VooDoo-102,342
2. MartinW- 90,726
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@328gtsQuote:

A really great game and good choice for this month. Have fun all of you.

Is it just me or does this game, or rather it's first level at least, seem very bugged? I can play it and never run out of lives every time. By the time I have died I'm guaranteed to have gained at least 1 extra life, 2 if the coins tally over over 99. On top of that, I get to a certain point where i have no choice but to just die by jumping into the void.

I'm willing to bet there's probably one or more invisible blocks to jump on when it comes to the end, but with the basically infinite lives situation, this will just be an endurance test of who is willing to sit through it the longest

I got bored at around 300,000 but I have a very low threshold for these things !

@MartinW

well today I had the chance to play and I see what you mean the game is never ending lol so not too well suited for our competition so I've picked a fast paced vertical shooter from Huno's website that I just tried and works great on my X1000

Here's my first try Episode 1 final score:

Nice! I already have this - it's tough

Excellent choice for this month's competition! Looking forward to playing the game!

Nice game, I tried it but I do not know how to put my name for high score? :D Or I had small score for High Score list hahahah

@VooDoo

Episode 1 includes alot of mini sections then at the end of them you will see the high score screen that I posted above where you can enter your high score (that is if you scored enough points)

Also make sure your playing in Normal mode with "Player Arcade" mode and "Episode 1: Escape"

@328gtsQuote:

I did everything that you said..but I do not see High Score...But I made Screenshoot after I lost the game :)

@VooDoo

you have to play many levels to get to the end so keep clicking ‘Play next level’ and at the end you will see the end high score screen

@328gts

I played a bit this evening and got far in the game, but it seems like I have unlimited continues? Should we quit after one attempt, or can one use as many continues as one wants? I did not manage to play through, since there was so many levels and took so long time.

@AmigaOldskooler

yes this is not a quick game for sure so keep clicking ‘Play next level’ and at the end of each level and you will see the end high score screen when Episode 1 ends.

Does anyone know if there's a trick to getting a joystick to work with this game? I've got a PS3 dual shock controller and the analogue stick isn't recognised. I can't use the d-pad because either it's broken (unlikely), or left isn't recognised by the entire OS. So that leaves me with no controller options outside of keyboard.

@MartinW

You can use the mouse to control the ship. That makes it a bit easier to avoid enemies and bullets. You don't have to change any options for this, just try the mouse while playing. Hope this helps.

@MartinW

my joypad is working though if I think it's because of Huno's GUI_EGL_Wrap_library as I recall setting up my joypad in the past for some of his games with it but I'm not sure...here;s the link from his site
http://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net/con ... ry-eglwrapper-opengles-20

Another game I'm not really sure I "get" to be honest - as someone else has said, are we meant to quite when we die or continue, continue, continue until we get to the end of the episode (which happened here)?

Anyway

@MartinW

yup that’s the end of Episode 1 and the high score we’re looking for

Not sure what is going on here, but here is my humble score:




Will give a try again, I hope!

Gave it another shot, but got bored :) I can't play all the way to the end, it's too long.

@levellord

keep completing levels until you reach the end of Episode 1 where you can input your high score...it takes a while but I personally pause it and take a break or two to get to the end

@ all

here's my latest that I haven't been able to beat yet but will try