Indie Retro News: G-WARS - A Geometry Wars Clone for high end Amiga's

Stephen Cakebread’s Geometry Wars initially began as a Venture Gotham Racing Easter egg, however from then on become a totally fledged eye sweet neon top-down multi-directional shooter, with appearances on the DS all the way in which as much as Steam. Effectively it is time for the Amiga to get pleasure from this sport, as NovaCoder has launched ‘G-WARS’. A Geometry Wars Clone that may require not less than an RTG Amiga with a 68060 processor or higher (PiStorm CM4 beneficial). Do not imagine me, then come and take a look at this footage!

And here is the complete particulars. “That is my first ever Amiga sport impressed by the basic XBOX 360 shooter Geometry Wars (a 2025 launch). This isn’t a port of Geometry Wars, it is all my very own code developed over the previous 6 months (mainly I simply made it up as I went alongside). I used my previous PC 3D engine PolyNov to generate the 3D objects after which used SDL with OpenGL assist (Mesa) to render the polygons. Though this launch targets the Amiga, it would not comprise any Amiga particular code so it must be extremely moveable to different retro platforms. This sport was developed utilizing C++ solely”.

Necessities:

1) An RTG Amiga
2) 68060 processor or higher (PiStorm CM4 beneficial)
3) 64MB of RAM
4) AHI put in and configured (see hyperlinks part beneath)
5) Music and SFX information
6) A 2-button digital joystick

Configuration:

You do not want to put in any third get together graphics libraries.
The escape key will deliver up the menu and pause the sport.
The +/- keys will transfer the digicam and scale back your view port.
Any errors/warnings must be written to a log file.
This sport has been developed for a 4:3 show.
The ‘closewb’ tooltype will shut your workbench.
The log file will output the typical FPS on exit.

Efficiency Issues:

“Though this sport has been developed to focus on PiStorm Pi4, it could be potential to get it operating on an overclocked 060 if you happen to configure it to to disable options just like the real-time lighting, the starfield’s parallax scrolling and scale back the particle results to a naked minimal. The entire music and SFX information included with this archive have been transformed to 22,050 kHz which is what the mixer makes use of by default, if you happen to change the mixer high quality setting within the sport then you definately’ll must create new information to match the frequency utilized by the sport. You must arrange your AHI configuration to additionally output 22,050 kHz to match the sport. Just a few foolish folks have urged that this sport ought to run on a inventory A500 or A1200 with some FASTRAM. This unique sport is solely vector based mostly and renders hundreds of 3D objects per body in 16-bit shade with real-time lighting, attempt doing that on a inventory A1200 FFS.”.

Limitations: