Games • New Roguelike for Amiga: The Lair of the Lich King

Hi Folks,

I'm working on a new game for the Amiga, "Lair of the Lich King".It's a roguelike, 80x25 map with 8x8 cells.I originally started this game in 2020, writing for the Commodore 128 (80 col mode). I later ported to the B-128 after failing miserably to port it to PET (32K is NOT enough). And I also have a port for the Foenix F256 (a new retro computer in an Atari 800XL style case). I may do one more port for the Foenix A2560K (68040 in an Amiga 600 style case), but I don't have the hardware yet. In any case, the Amiga port is the first 16/32 bit platform, so there are some new challenges and opportunities. Lich King is a very large game for 8 bits, needing constant switching of overlays and insanely detailed memory management. The Amiga port doesn't suffer from that, but my goal is to have this run on A1000s and KS 1.3, so there are still some limits. (I *may* not succeed in keeping it small enough to run on an unexpanded A1000, too early to tell).

my New Year's resolution for 2024 is to FINISH and SHIP this game for the above 4 platforms, in a box, with manual, floppy, and a "feely". (I need to stop making new ports, as each one is an excuse not to do the e-commerce + making box part of the project).

I'd like to use this thread to share progress, and get feedback on various things about the Amiga version.

Progress report:
- closing in on completion of minimum necessary to have Amiga version running and functionally equivalent to the other platforms. Maybe a week, optimistically.- although I have done some platform-based enhancements, such as tiles instead of 1-color custom font glyphs for the dungeon and monsters, most of the Amiga-only stuff hasn't been started: custom key mapping, alternate tile sets, sound effects, music, etc. No idea how long that part will take. Some may not happen, at least initially, as the game will be fully playable very soon.

Statistics: Posted by Warty — Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:47 am — Replies 5 — Views 1549

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