SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

I have started (or continued) to port an old Amiga game of mine called Extrial to Unity.

As a kid I was a huge fan of Fort Apocalypse and Choplifter and this probably influenced me when I was making it.

You can't download the game yet but stick around for the progress I am making...

I still have the original assembler source code for Extrial and also all of the assets.

I am not going to use a real time tile "engine" for this so I wrote a tool in BlitzMax that uses the tilemap data to create the images for the scrolling.

The are so small because the original resolution was just 320 x 192 pixels and 32 colors (times have changed).

This is the background that will repeat:



And these are the first 8 screens (imagine the background behind them):


At the time I was not able to do a smooth parallax in 32 colors on the Amiga but that should not be a problem now.

Looks good: https://youtu.be/CB-cK5x3TBQ

I really like the style of the graphics.

This Looks Friken Awsome!

Shame its in Unity. You've Written a tool in Blitzmax for the TileMaps Would love to see how you went about doing that!

Shame youre not codeing the lot in BlitzMax. Original code was in 68000 as well. Another CPU on my Emulator list.

I mean no Disrespect by my comments just passionate about BlitzMax Keep up the good work!

Can't wait to Play it.

Kind Regards Baggey

Thanks guys...

@Baggey Actually I still use BlitzMax a lot. My number one goto for writing tools.

Excellent! 

Just letting everybody know that after some troubled times I am back on it...