I've been playing an awesome game: Platypus
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:25 am
I've wasted much of my weekend playing an awesome game I found in the bargain pile, only cost a pound.
The game is platypus and it's the best side scroller I've played in a long time.
http://www.google.com/search?q=platypus ... 8&oe=utf-8
The whole thing looks fresh and original, with everything looking like it was made of modelling clay. Wallace and Grommit meets Nemesis/Gradius.
Gameplay is perfectly balanced. The clay figure graphic make it look like a kids game, but it is very, very hard. The end of the second level features a massive mothership, the best since R-Type.
The soundtrack features some very high quality remakes of C64 classics such as Ron Hubbard's Thalamusic and Martin Galway's Wizball.
I mention it here because it was written in Blitz Basic. I'd love to see a game of this quality written in PB.
Another reason I mention it is because I just love this game so much.
The game is platypus and it's the best side scroller I've played in a long time.
http://www.google.com/search?q=platypus ... 8&oe=utf-8
The whole thing looks fresh and original, with everything looking like it was made of modelling clay. Wallace and Grommit meets Nemesis/Gradius.
Gameplay is perfectly balanced. The clay figure graphic make it look like a kids game, but it is very, very hard. The end of the second level features a massive mothership, the best since R-Type.
The soundtrack features some very high quality remakes of C64 classics such as Ron Hubbard's Thalamusic and Martin Galway's Wizball.
I mention it here because it was written in Blitz Basic. I'd love to see a game of this quality written in PB.
Another reason I mention it is because I just love this game so much.
