There are numerous alternative ways to create Amiga video games, both by means of Amos, Blitz Fundamental, RedPill or by means of Spine. However one such recreation engine has turn out to be the spotlight of each new Amiga recreation characteristic on Indie Retro Information, and that is Earok’s wonderful Scorpion Engine; a continually up to date piece of software program that provides builders the instruments to create graphically spectacular video games, working at first rate body charges even on the bottom spec’d Amigas.
Fortunately for these of you trying to create the most recent video games such because the superior Castlevania AGA, Maria Renard’s Revenge, Tiny Pixel Journey are in the fitting place. As Earok has formally introduced that Scorpion Engine 2024.2, is not simply out there for the Amiga! But additionally the Sega Mega Drive and NEOGEO. As such this is all the most recent adjustments and options for the Amiga, Mega Drive and NEOGEO listed under.Â
AMIGA:
- * “Trackdisk” export for Amiga produces NDOS disks with decrease reminiscence utilization and decrease loading instances.
- * Visible editor for parallax.
- * CD32 NVRAM saving.
- * Improved dealing with for scrolling, significantly the place excessive bitplanes counts and broad 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.
- * Help 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.
- * Help 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 enhancing for platform leap arcs.
- * Enhancements for including new traces to codeblocks.
- * Varied enhancements to stability and efficiency throughout all platforms.
- * Excessive Rating desk pattern recreation.
- * “Look Up Tables” may be carried out in exterior textual content information, permitting giant quantities of knowledge 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 recreation which isn’t a scientific measure by any means, nevertheless it does give a common concept 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
