BlackHole Reignited

In all the infamous pubs of Therouane plazza on Congis Space Station (aka CSS), the holoprojectors are overheating because the Black Hole of the AC2 K10 sector of the Galaxy has been reignited. 

It is now time for the biggest tournament of the CSS history, and you can be one of those silly guy that defy death and shame...

Status of the game:

This game is still in development, and not intended to be completed one day. I plan to add new features / game modes and rework core gameplay to improve it over time.

Consider it as a free "game as a service" (even if I don't like this expression/king of games) for Atari Jaguar.

It is free, will remain free, and there is no plan to put it on a cartridge or sell it. 

So please do not buy it from various ebay scammers as you will probably not get the up to date version, and you will give money to pirates...

2023/05/29: GemTOS release - very first prototype release

About the Game:

Blackhole it a top down shooter for up to 8 players on Atari Jaguar (using 2 team taps) with a twist: there is a black hole in the center of the arena, and its gravity affects players ships and bullets.

The game is mostly intended for retro convention, but if you have 7 friends, 1 Jaguar, 2 team taps and 8 jagpads, you can of course enjoy it at home.

Game modes:

Solo modes:

Last man standing:

That's quite easy, up to 8 contestant, and the last one remaining earn 1 point. After a predetermined number of rounds, the one with the biggest score is declared as winner.

Timed Match:

That should be easy, each time you shoot at another ship, you get points, and he lose some points. At the end of the time, a few employees of the consulting firm commissioned by the accounting and tax services management departments of  the glorious governement of Independant and United Konglomerate have a meeting at their office in one of the infamous pubs of Congis Space Station and gives their conclusion. The biggest score, the best it is....

Multi modes:

Last Team Standing:

From 2 to 4 team will enter the game. Select your team, and once there is only 1 team on screen, the team gets a point...

Team Timed Match:

It is the same that solo Timed Match, but the accounting firm in charge of tallyingthe points charge the promoters more, because there are some subsequent additions to perform before giving final results.

Protect the Leader:

Before each round, 1 ship from each team is promoted a Leader of the team, if he gets destroyed, the whole team lose. The Last Leader on screen gets 1 point for his team

And More to come...

Development history:

The very early version of the game has been created during the AC 2k10 convention, for the speed coding contest, with SebRMV librairies. It was playable, some say it was enjoyable, but for sure, it was not complete, there were no end game or score/leader board (which is a pity for a multi player game).

Of course, this did not stop usual scammers to put it on a Jag CD and sell it on Ebay, this is a reason why the game has been put on hold for so many years.

In 2023, I toyed with the idea of making something again for the Jaguar with JagStudio.  As a test, I converted the ugly BlackHole source (remember it has been done in less than 24 hours) from SebRMV librairies to JagStudio. It worked quite well so I started to rework the graphical aspect, with new sprites, new backgrounds.

Then I finally added some of the game modes I intended to put on first place (I still had somewhere on my hard drive the list of games modes and description). This includes solo and team modes.

Of course added menus, and a very first kind of leaderboard.

There are still lots of improvements to do on the game I'd like to do, and will do over time at my (slow) pace.

Credits:

Made with JagStudio from Reboot Games

Code: 

• Fadest

Placeholder Music: 

• Gone Forever from Zilly Mike

Placeholder Graphs: 

• Ships sprites by Lowitch (reworked by Fadest for 8 directions)
• Title screen : deyasa_346 (Freepik premium license)
• Selection screen : upklyak (Freepik premium license)
• Menu background : extract from Freepik premium license
• Ingame background : extract from Microone (Freepik premium license)
• Various assets : Fadest