There are various alternative ways to create Amiga video games, both by means of Amos, Blitz Primary, RedPill or by means of Spine. However one such sport engine has turn into the spotlight of each new Amiga sport characteristic on Indie Retro Information, and that is Earok’s wonderful Scorpion Engine; a always up to date piece of software program that provides builders the instruments to create graphically spectacular video games, operating at respectable body charges even on the bottom spec’d Amigas.
Fortunately for these of you seeking to create the newest video games such because the superior Castlevania AGA, Maria Renard’s Revenge, Tiny Pixel Journey are in the best place. As Earok has formally introduced that Scorpion Engine 2024.2, is not simply out there for the Amiga! But in addition the Sega Mega Drive and NEOGEO. As such this is all the newest modifications and options for the Amiga, Mega Drive and NEOGEO listed under.
AMIGA:
- * “Trackdisk” export for Amiga produces NDOS disks with decrease reminiscence utilization and decrease loading occasions.
- * Visible editor for parallax.
- * CD32 NVRAM saving.
- * Improved dealing with for scrolling, notably the place excessive bitplanes counts and vast screens are used.
- * Improved assist for keyboard instructions, particularly a number of keypress/launch occasions in a single body are dealt with.
Megadrive:
- * A lot improved sprite sample streaming.
- * Assist for some line scrolling choices, together with an “underwater” demo.
Neogeo:
- * NeoGeo maps and actors use 21 sprites at most, permitting extra layers of parallax to be added to every scanline.
- * Assist for NeoGeo’s highly effective auto animation characteristic for stage backgrounds.
- * Save cart assist (in addition to NeoGeo CD’s inside save reminiscence).
UNIVERSAL:
- * New “Brixx” and “Snek” pattern video games generously donated by Zooperdan!
- * Visible modifying for platform leap arcs.
- * Enhancements for including new traces to codeblocks.
- * Numerous enhancements to stability and efficiency throughout all platforms.
- * Excessive Rating desk pattern sport.
- * “Look Up Tables” will be applied in exterior textual content information, permitting massive quantities of information to be referenced at actual time.
- * Main enhancements for debug mode, together with first time assist on Mega Drive and NeoGeo.
PERFORMANCE
- Scorpion Engine makes use of a benchmark sport which isn’t a scientific measure by any means, however it does give a normal thought of how efficiency on every platform has improved.
- A500: 4%
- A1200: 6%
- A1200+Quick: 3%
- Mega Drive: 6%
- Neogeo: 1%
For additional data go to the hyperlink right here -> https://github.com/earok/scorpion-editor-demos
