Barbarian+ - Enhanced version of an Amiga classic

[daxb]

Ask the developer if you really want to know. As far as read until now there is no game, just art/animation/....

[Neil79]

Throughout the last few months we've been keeping you informed as much as possible regarding the work in progress enhancement of Barbarian that is being worked on by Ten Shu, Colin Vella and Simone Bernacchia. Well after a number of write ups in regards to this fantastic one to two player game with a barbarian facing off with each other waiting to chop a head off or two. Colin has since announced not only new screenshots but a new decapitation video from their upcoming enhancement 'Barbarian+'.

http://www.indieretronews.com/2018/0...f-classic.html

[Gzegzolka]

Is that Doom Slayer rune on those flags?

Don't know what it is...

But what google tells me, I'd say "yes"

Here are some more shots and another video (again, rename .zip to .mp4 to view it)

CU,
padrino

[Predseda]

but why they are colored???

The plan is, that you can choose the fighters' skin and armor colour...

[Predseda]

Looks really promising

[TurboCrash]

If the plus stands for moar blood I'm guessing it will be kool

[saimon69]

@TurboCrash

Moar Blood, moar colors, moar scenery, moar music (original Amiga did not had any), MOAR!

[TurboCrash]

@saimon69

Yes! thank you, moar is betterer !
I'm really going to enjoy this.

[gururise]

It's looking really nice. Hope the developer adds support for CD32 controllers as well. I remember playing Barbarian on the C64!

[Gzegzolka]

It looks more awesome with each update

[Neil79]

Has just been teased again but this time with a new video showing a female warrior added to the game. For those that missed any previous announcements they are also working on a Warrior type, skin and kit colour selection, gore option menu.

http://www.indieretronews.com/2018/0...-added-to.html

[Predseda]

Great! I always play a female character, where possible. And that background squirrell is nice (but a but too frequent, though)!

[Dunny]

Love it! It's always nice to see female protagonists and their armour in games.

[Predseda]

I am not sure if it was already said, but will this game have a normal 1p mode against computer AI warrior?

[Neil79]

Originally Posted by Predseda

I am not sure if it was already said, but will this game have a normal 1p mode against computer AI warrior?

Yes, optional 1 player mode

[ReadOnlyCat]

Originally Posted by Akira

I hope they reverse engineer the original or something to be able to replicate the mechanics 1:1. Surely this is a simple enough game to get right in AMOS but how it plays will make or break the conversion.

Good luck!

Indeed good luck.
And as you say, the issue here is reproducing the gameplay of the original and this is usually much more difficult than reproducing the technical aspects of it: every coder can move BOBs around with a bit of practice but proper collisions, timings, animation rhythm and sequence is the hard part which requires a lot of tweaking well after the game is technically done.

Originally Posted by DamienD

Yeah, not sure about how good things will be using AMOS...

AMOS is perfectly capable of handling a game like Barbarian, there are only two not-even-that-big blitter objects to move around in the forefront and a few background animations and the game logic is fairly simple.

Originally Posted by Akira

The problem is not what you code it with if you know how to do things well. You can do very competent games with AMOS if you know what you are doing, like this one: http://hol.abime.net/2715
If this ends up needing a 68020+2MB chip to do what the original does on a 512KB machine, then yeah we have a problem.

Absolutely.

Originally Posted by Akira

I think the main concern for me would be the gameplay but it's very early and we have to wait and see, I think the makers of this version are huge fans of the game and will probably have the same concerns as me

Yup, once again, reproducing all the subtleties of the gameplay is way trickier than moving sprites around in AMOS.
Before the graphics, this is where their focus should be.

[Neil79]

And.. RELEASED!

Barbarian Plus - Head chopping classic enhanced is finally here for the Amiga!



Well this came as a complete surprise considering we were told it wasn't going to be released until the weekend, but it looks as if the team behind ' Barbarian Plus ' have finally released it through Facebook! - Mirror in article

http://www.indieretronews.com/2018/1...g-classic.html

[earok]

Great work guys