Return of the Beast

[sorchard]

I would like to share a demo of an arcade-style game I've been working on for a while. Rather gratuitously called 'Return of the Beast', it's a sequel to my earlier game ROTABB (Revenge of the etc.) There's still quite a bit of work to do but there's enough there now to finally be able to put out a demo.

It can be played with keyboard (left/right/space) or the right joystick (point & shoot).

My thanks to Sixxie for xroar, asm6809 & CyD and to Bosco for great ideas, inspiration and motivation.

In case anyone is wondering, it's all done in software, no hardware tricks and no speed up poke

Enjoy!

Edit: Attached version is now a bit easier to play and includes a vdk image

[robcfg]

Great!

Love the sweet multidirectional scroll and the nice use of dither.

Keep up the good work!

[pser1]

Hi Steve,
great job!
I know I am not a good gamer, so I lasted not too much time after quite some tries.
Will have to try it on the D64 with joystick.
cheers
pere

[jmk]

Hey, nice game demo!

Good scrolling and very nice music. Quite a few sprites on-screen too.

I hope you turn it into a full game.

[Bosco]

Always exciting to see brand new games being developed.

Music and scrolling are great! I'm very impressed. It's going to be a worthy successor to ROTABB.

Keep up the amazing work Stew!

[Stig]

Very cool ! ROTABB is one of my fav Dragon games, This has the potential to be every bit a good.

Finding the difficulty brutal lol but still fun and always good to get new stuff for the Dragon

Looking forward to seeing it completed

Great work

[sorchard]

Thanks to all for giving it a try and for the positive feedback! I do fully intend to finish this game as it's the one I've always wanted to create for the Dragon

Looks like I misjudged the difficulty, (had a bit of practice!), so I've updated the file in the first post with one that's easier to play. It also includes a vdk image for convenience.

[robcfg]

Nice!

But please, don't forget Black Planet! That is one I'd really like to see finished!

[litwr]

It reminds me Space Pilot for Commodore but with better sound and graphics.

[sorchard]

Couple of developments:

Source code of the demo can be found here:
https://github.com/sorchard001/ROTB

I'm also trying my hand at a blog. I'm hoping the extra commitment will help me finish the game, plus remind me how it works
http://returnofthebeast.blogspot.co.uk