SkillGrid is an endless score-attack vertical shoot 'em up. It is currently in development, and will be released (hopefully) in Q1 2019.
This new AGA title looks like its really got some potential. This game comes from the wonderful guys at ReTream who of course brought us the wonderful title BOH. This game seems to be aimed at AGA machines so supported by A1200, A4000 and hopefully we will see a CD32 Realease as well! Luckily it only requiures 2mb of ram!
Full Features list so far
Original gameplay based on shooting at enemies and catching/dodging of cells
3 parallax layers (2 of which generated procedurally) scrolling at variable speed
1 fixed layer for the HUD and other effects
Real transparencies with 8 bit alpha channel
Real-time palette changes
Beautiful tiny sprites
Pixel-perfect collision detection
High quality prog-rock music in the form of lossless-packed 8 bit stereo 28.9 kHz samples
Speech warnings
Audio channels allocated dynamically for one-shot sounds
Variable afterburner sound frequency, depending on the ship vertical speed and the scrolling speed
... all running at steady 50 Hz
Single load from hard disk, CD, or floppy disks
Hiscore saving
Please check out the SkillGrid website and development blog
Hi there, I'm the developer (RETREAM are just me).
Thanks for the article.
Yes, the game works also on the CD32 (the CD is made precisely for that machine, although it's usable also by A1200s/A4000s with CD-ROM).