Looking through my Twitter feed to see if any games were worth talking about, that's either in development or newly released, and I've come across an upcoming Amiga game called 'The Gate' by Allanon. A game that the developer says, "is an action-adventure, that is highly inspired by Impossible Mission and Project Firestart". The game when finished, will have 64 Color graphics (EHB), a dynamic dialogue system, interactive Terminals, puzzles, a huge map, an engaging story, equippable devices, and enemies & bosses (each with their own brain scripts that make them a bit of unpredictable).
UPDATE : It has been many months now since the game was first announced, and throughout that time, the developer has kept the community up to date with the latest progress for The Gate. So rather than me waffle on and repeat vast pages of updates, I will however show off some of the new videos from the game, as well as mention there's new rooms, new enemy variants, energy shields, Institute's AI accessible via a terminal, background music and so much more! In fact it might be worth you visiting the games page below and follow the latest from Allanon.

I've been backing the dev a little because i think that this game is going to be a great.
ReplyDeleteCheck the video, it really reminds me of cool games indeed like ' impossible mission' and even 'flashback' .
Keep it up Allanon !
This looks interesting.
ReplyDeleteWhy Project Firestart not got an Amiga port or a later fan made update always leaves me disappointed
ReplyDeleteLooks really cool! Hope it will see the release!
ReplyDeleteIt says 64 colors EHB, that's OCS
ReplyDeleteHello everyone!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the nice words!
I'm glad that many of you are enjoying this project :D
Some clarifications about the latest comments :)
The game is not AGA but uses EHB (64 colors), here is the proof
https://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?s=2471e9e2304eabc6bae425ae19a9c7dc&p=1760802&postcount=21
With my Indivision AGA MK3 in my A1200 i only get a black screen as soon as i get to the game-screen. The menu works fine, after i choose New Game and choose a game-slot the screen goes black and i get a flashing screen with the game-screen from time to time.
ReplyDeleteBooted without startup-sequence and run the game from there but same problem.
Well, this looks very intriguing - the kind of game that would absorb you for hours. Great work. One slight comment: at this stage, I am not seeing any great benefit from the EHB colours in the graphics. The graphics ARE attractive, though. But If the game runs into chip RAM limitations, I think that using only 16 colours would be a good option and will not change the graphics very much.
ReplyDeleteOverall, a very interesting project!
It's OCS, works great on my Amiga 500. No one really needs AGA ;)
ReplyDeleteI really like this game preview. Looks so promising!
like the interesting art style. and nice to see some OCS EHB love.
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