Menace - HD Tech Demo - Vampire Remake

[invent]

Hi Everyone,

I'm currently redrawing all the first level graphics for Menace - A shoot em up that was release in the late 1980's. It's a fairly simple shooter, one I have completed a few times. This "Tech Demo" is planned for all Vampire Amigas. I say Tech Demo as I don't plan on remaking the whole game at this stage as i think it might be better spent on a new game but the code/engine will flow into the more popular Amiga shooter /sequel/spiritual successor (secret at this stage)

I have attached some teaser images. Keeping it as authentic as possible and respecting the original design by Tony Smith (Anthony Smith)
All foreground/background graphics for the first level are complete, and my focus now is on the enemies, then rebuilding the map using Tiled.
I do have more info/behind the scenes on my blog and source files but as always happy to post more info here

P.S. Will be updating various projects soon (Boss Machine, Reshoot Proxima III, Art Competition Nova and other projects)

P.S.S. the animated Boss didnt seem to work (file too large?) here is an alternative link

[malko]

Nice .
Enjoyed this game a lot BitD also. Since I do not own a Vampire, are you going to post a video of the tech demo ?

[invent]

Hey Malko, thankyou for your interest and will definitely show videos.

[Tigerskunk]

Interesting take, Invent...

[manossg]

This looks seriously awesome!

[gimbal]

Love the color palette. Looks very slick.

[JoeJoe]

Nice One...and 2 player mode

[kriz]

That looks so nice, will follow this project with great interest!!

[freehand]

Menace was the first game I completed on the amiga.

The sound track is awesome before entering the game brings back so many memories.

[Tigerskunk]

Originally Posted by freehand

Menace was the first game I completed on the amiga.

The sound track is awesome before entering the game brings back so many memories.

I even remember when I saw this first time.
Was in a local department store, where a kind of famous munich cracker group dude had the disk with him and showed this to us.

[malko]

This is the 1st game I gave to eat to my new joystick in 2018

https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php...28#post1225428

[invent]

It's been a while but new progress is being made on the Menace HD Tech demo....

[gimbal]

Looks -really- slick.

What is that blue thing on the left, is that a powerup pickup? If so, it looks a little... big Not saying that it is a bad thing though, a gripe I have with some horizontal shooters is that you can't really tell what powerup a pickup gives due to them all looking the same.

[Havie]

Hoping this works on V1200.

[invent]

Thanks Gimbal, yes might tweak that slightly, it is the powerup. When the player shoots it is very quickly spins to next weapons.

Attached is the Weaponset

[invent]

An updated scaling of the collectible. (was an older asset, I needed to tweak), player may also shrink slightly. Changes have been to the score hud, the reason is the two player option we wanted to maximise the screen real estate.

Hi Havie, Gunnar mentioned it could run on OS 3 or ApolloOS or even Atari with micro change only. However game will use 16bit audio in the game and 8 channel and V1200 can't do this.

[Havie]

Thanks - shame about the sound but perhaps good tune in the background instead.

[tomcat666]

Will this use some vampire "special" things or will it work if you have enough CPU power and a RTG screen - basically in WinUAE ?

[DanyPPC]

It use ARNE 16bit audio, so I don't think it will work on WinUAE, at least the audio part.
In order it will not work if, as other ports, it will use ammx instructions.

[tomcat666]

Yea, if possible make a fallback to non-ammx and audio, it will work on piStorm atleast. So far other ports that have a fallback (Diablo, C&C, Sonic, etc.) work splendid on piStorm