Indie Retro News: Shadow Fields

A brand new horizontal-scrolling shoot-’em-up titled as Shadow Fields has formally arrived for the ZX Spectrum, and it’s already getting nice suggestions all through the retro gaming group! Suggestions equivalent to “Rattling, that appears prefer it could not be a Speccy sport” and “Beautiful shoot-em-up”. Developed by Manuel Ferreira Moreno, higher referred to as Gandulf, the sport is being hailed as a technical marvel that pushes the traditional {hardware} to its absolute limits.

Shadow Fields is a pure labor of affection, coded completely from scratch in 100% assembler code. Not like many notable homebrew titles, it makes use of no pre-existing engines or AI-generated property. Each line of code was hand-crafted by Gandulf, who additionally served as the sport’s graphics artist! Key options of this practice construct embrace: Destructible Environments: All the sport world could be blasted aside, including a layer of tactical carnage to the fast-paced motion, and Large Bosses: Gamers can count on to face off in opposition to giant, full-color bosses that dominate the display.

128K Energy: To attain this stage of efficiency, the sport solely helps 128K fashions, using the additional RAM and the AY-3-8912 sound chip for its atmospheric rating.
Clean scroll with colours: Three completely different starfield planes + clean display scrolling

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