• Action
• Retro
• Sci-Fi

METAL SAVIOUR BIA
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Agent Orange/Pogesoft, 2020
Genre:Action/Sci-Fi/Retro

This started out as a gag about a Robotech fangame during asie's advent calendar event in 2020 on the Discord of ZZT. 'Robotech', following a remark about an authentic 1994 ZZT fangame, and I was crazy about the show in 1994. 

This led me to try and make a game that would have been period-appropriate, using mostly colours accessible through ZZT's built-in editor. As several '94-'96 games often started out non-STK and then suddenly started adding in STK elements and objects at some point in (or, as they said on the discord, they 'discovered' it), this game would also have that aesthetic. Hence the 'retro' tag.

The original game concept was as follows:
1.  A  Dogfight-type engine where you fight through a Zentraedi(sic) fleet.
2.  The breaking-up mech suit engine where you fight Zentraedi and their mecha on a battlecruiser's hull in gerwalk mode.
3.  Plain old you vs a square of ruffians as you blow up the battlecruiser from inside.
4. Some kind of escape sequence with slime and stars (yes, I know what I typed).
Call it We Will Win and it's done.

It eventually moved away from an explicit Robotech fangame to something with a Robotech 'feel' to it. I have retained the red-and-white transforming mecha and aliens with big green spaceships as part of that feel. The ruffians and slimes were dropped.

The game is fairly short with quite a bit of story thrown in. While a lot of 'space shooter' games from the mid-90s in ZZT had a single shooter engine used for several levels, I used a few engines I had tinkered with in the past, as well as one from the ZZT Encyclopedia Online, for a less repetitive experience. 

The author can be reached for comments on the Discord of ZZT as PogeSoft, or by email (HA!) at arunsrajkumar@gmail.com.
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