Hollows in full colour and more in tune with the 1980s


This release changes the game in a number of fundamental ways. Mostly what I learned was that I left out key aspects of what made 1980s gaming so joyful:

* colour! If you only have sixteen colours, you make use of all of them; the greyscale of earlier builds took the player back one decade too far

* the music has to be of a piece with the era the game harks back to

* desktop support (Windows, Linux, Mac) is a must as the keyboard as controller is a central part of the experience

* one tiny but significant aspect of the 80s game Thrust this build restores is the distinctive white noise loop when the player engages thrust 

* when on mobile, the controls need to work well from small phones to large tablets; in practice, earlier versions of the touch interface were cumbersome on larger screens; the portrait view was especially difficult in this regard

Grateful for all feedback on these changes and the game as a whole! Are the levels too easy, too hard or about right? Very happy to create new levels!

Files

hollows-mac.dmg 25 MB
Mar 01, 2021
hollows.exe 32 MB
Mar 01, 2021
hollows-linux.x86_64 37 MB
Mar 01, 2021

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