Blower (Amiga Port)

Blower is a local multiplayer game, a Bomberman x Doom game. Let's say a Doom like with 2D bomberman fashion, or a Bomberman without bombs but with guns and flamethrower.

It's was initially designed in the computer room of my high school on PC MS/DOS and written in Pascal and inline x86 assembly. I got help from friends as Guillaume, Donatien and Aurélien.

It was initially created in 1996/1997, so you can feel the action movie legacy of the 80's and early 90's with all Arnold Schwarzenegger, Silvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Kurt Russel, Steven Seagal. The new title screen and the music were chosen to highlight this legacy. In 1996, it was unconscious as it was one of the main pop culture of the last 15 years, reworking on this in 2022, I make it more "meta" and more like a parody.

This version is a port to Amiga created for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam.

I hope you'll get a little fun with this game.

Game Hightlights

• Compatible with all Amiga with 1 Mb of chip (Tested on CDTV, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200 and CDTV).
• up to 4 players using a parallel port to joysticks adapter for player 3 & 4.
• missing player are replaced by (not very smart) bots.
• 4 different avatars/fighters (almost Rambo, almost Clint Eastwood, almost Frankenstein, almost an american soldier).
• 4 world themes.
• 7 levels to make the difference.
• 3 game modes.
• 7 types of Bonus.

How to play

4 players can fight in the same time using joystick or joypad using the two DB9/Joystick port of your Amiga. The 2 extra players can play using an parallel/joytsickport adapter.

If your are not four players, you can use bot for fun or training. (Warning they can be quite stupid).

You use the joystick to move your avatar, fire to shoot (yes that easy!) and go through bonus to make the difference.

Rules :

• 1 level = 1 game = the survivor wins the game and get one point.
• 7 levels.
• the player with the more points win the party.

Game mode :

• Normal.
• One shot : 1 hit and you're dead, for blitz game party.
• Two shots : 2 hits and you're dead, a good compromise between the 2 other modes.

Bonus :

• E : Energy, get back to full energy/life.
• S : Speed, get an extra speed for 4 seconds.
• F : Flamethrower, get a flamethrower instead of the gun for 4 seconds.
• I : Invicible, you cannot be hit for 4 seconds.
• 1x : One shot to kill, each shot take all life of the hit player for 4 seconds.
• 2x : Two shost to kill, each shot take half life of the hit player for 4 seconds.
• ? : Random, you get a random bonus.

Credits

Music : Sunset Rebels from Roald Strauss - Discover https://indiegamemusic.com/ - Briging music artists and game developers together.

GrafX : contributions from TheoTheoderich.

Big thanks to the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam Discord community and Halifax Discord Community.

Tools used

Title Screen : Midjourney & Grafx2.

Grafx : Paint on Windows 3.1 in 1996 and GrafX2.

SoundFX : iPhone with its native recording app, audacity.

Code & Packaging : Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Language Support - Javascript Native Edition, FS-UAE & Ultimate Blitz Basic 2.1

Difference with 1997 PC version

Amiga Port got the following change :

• Grafx were "downgraded" from 256 color, and upgraded with the help of TheoTheoderich.
• Sound was upgraded from nothing (you know PC in the 90's, you need extra money to have a Sound Blaster) to Sound FX recorded with my two sons (Léo and Noah) with their toys and our ability to make sound with our mouths.
• Music was added (same reason).
• New Title Screen.
• Bot was also added (on the PC port it was multiplayer only).
• Scores and 3 extra levels were added.
• 2 new bonus were added

More information  on https://github.com/youenchene/blower

Also Available on AmigaLive for remote multiplay.