This is my attempt of Porting a vector scan arcade game Armor Attack to pico8.
Control a combat jeep and destroy enemy tanks and helicopters.
Tanks require 2 shots to destroy, 1 shot only disables its movement.
Destroying helicopters increases the bonus score you get when you completely destroy a tank, and Destroying 5 of them gives you an extra jeep while resetting the bonus score.
Press O button in title screen to select accel key as Up or O button.
Due to pico8's environments the gameplay had been changed quite a lot :
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Much simplified playfield
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lower resolutions means less space to move, Be careful when tanks are surrounding you.
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No co-op mode.
- The original game suffered from a programming oversight, where the player can easily destroy helicopters by facing the wall and spamming bullets. In this port the player's bullet need to last more than 3 frames to hit the helicopter, so you can't abuse this trick. Instead, I have nerfed the helicopter's speed so you can outmaneuver and shoot them.
Anti-aliased vectors by elice and freds72.
What a great blast from the past, @hijongpark ! Gold star for this soldier.
Here is the original screen for those interested. As you can see the walls are merely a plastic sheet overlay.
I know that the original game used backdrop picture to display buildings and I wanted to replicate it, but using pixel sprites along with anti-aliased vectors wasn't pretty, especially when the elice's anti-aliased lines are suppossed to be used in black background.
1.1 patch
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Fixed Angle_lerp function bug when angle moves between 0 and 360.
- Increased morse code typing speed.
Loving all of these arcade ports. I especially like the ferocity of this one :)
Nice!
It would be a real QoL improvement to allow up on the dpad to be an alternate for the "gas pedal" button.
Great remake!
I loved this game as a kid. We used to have to walk to the next village along the cliff top to play it.
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