Indie Retro News: Dreadnought Assault

Not content material with all of the superior information we have had to this point this month, then how about this information replace that is simply been despatched to us by our good buddy Liqmatrix. It is the work in progress recreation of ‘Dreadnought Assault’ by kiwilove and playsoft. A relatively superior trying WIP scrolling shoot ’em up for the Atari 7800, which might be downloaded and performed proper now with new ranges and graphical modifications. To coincide with this information story, if you do not have an emulator put in or an Atari 7800 nevertheless, you can can at the very least try some footage of this work in progress recreation beneath.

Here is some data concerning the recreation from their earlier announcement to this weeks. “@kiwilove and I labored on this fairly a while in the past, however it was sidelined for varied causes. We have picked it up once more and hope to make one thing playable from it. Your process is to destroy all of the turrets on the dreadnought, gather a hostage and return to the launch bay. That is difficult by a bunch of various enemies attacking you. Use the joystick to maneuver your ship, left set off to fireplace and proper set off to flip path. Should you destroy a dragon, it is going to be adopted by a pickup that you may gather:

The subsequent two ranges have been added, together with varied graphic updates. A bonus spherical was added and subsequently eliminated since I wasn’t pleased with it; nevertheless one factor taken from that’s the quicker vertical motion which I believe makes the sport really feel extra fluid.