Gravitus - 8bit-wars comp entry

[Morpheus]

Here is my entry for the 8bit wars competition entry.

The game is called Gravitus, a Commodore 64 style game.

The idea: You pilot your ship to rescue lost terraformers in different missions on different planets. Your ship has limited fuel and simple weapons.
Each mission (so far) allows you to get used to flying the ship in increasingly more complex/difficult 'arenas' to locate the terraformers.

All the graphics have been drawn in MultiPaint http://multipaint.kameli.net. To make sure that it complies with the palette and pixel restrictions of the C64.

I have tried to replicate the boot up and loading of a C64 game. Bitmap graphic loader (simulated)! You can sit and enjoy the music or skip with the space bar 

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Early draft of the tiles, the Title Screen, Level Selection Screen and a title screen video are attached below...

Here is a video of the first level being played.

Here is a video of the fifth level being played.

Player explosion and Game Over Screen video.

Over the rest of the competition I will be adding new 'Worlds' ie graphic styles and levels. I also will be adding doors and switches to add some more elements to the game. I am still toying with the idea of adding enemies to the game....

I need to complete the credits and instructions screens. I will have them done in between level editing.

Enjoy!

[3DzForMe]

Oh my, people are clearly pulling out all the stops for this competition. Great work, gravity games float my boat!

[Steve Elliott]

Another high standard piece of work for the competition.   

[GaborD]

Yeah this will be a tough one. All the entries are fantastic.
Love the attention to detail, great loading screen.

[iWasAdam]

nice gravity going on. and on a mac - YAY.

Really really loved the little waving guy

[MrmediamanX]

lovin it 
this is going to be one tough comp to judge.

[Xerra]

Fuck me! Bar just got raised yet again 

[blinkok]

Superb

[STEVIE G]

Looks great - my kinda game!  Bloody hell - I'm nowhere near finished!!

[Steve Elliott]

On a side note, it would be great if SyntaxBomb was plugged a bit more by members of other communities.  It seems we're finding our feet here.

[therevills]

Great job! Reminds me of Thrust (2)... that was hard as the objects you picked up affected your ship.

[Qube]

Looks great - my kinda game!  Bloody hell - I'm nowhere near finished!!

Agree with everything you said ( back to tapping away )

Did you do all the cool music yourself or is it free stuff off the web?

[3DzForMe]

from: STEVIE G on March 01, 2019, 11:27:34 PM
Looks great - my kinda game!  Bloody hell - I'm nowhere near finished!!
Agree with everything you said ( back to tapping away ) 

Also a huge fan of Thrust games, so we've this, spy Hunter, knight lore esque game and Rick Dangerous esque game, amongst others, wow, the calibre of entrants is highest yet.
Same here, I've cracked the hard bit (my clockwork plum game engine), creating the contents demanding more time and drive than I'd imagined. Low graphics count doesn't really equate to less work!

[MrmediamanX]

reminded me of the rocket section of crash dummies ... got in that so i'll know I will get into this.

[Morpheus]

Did you do all the cool music yourself or is it free stuff off the web?

I stumbled upon the music on a free site... the two tunes are by the same author...really work well with game