Tropical Rampage

A tribute to Genesis/MegaDrive shooters.

I know there is a "retro-wave" these days with a lot of retro style games. Some are just a way to tell that "our lazy graphics are to recreate old games", but with this one I'm making more than an effort to restrict the color pallet and sound style to the Genesis/MegaDrive hardware.

For Sega Genesis/MegaDrive!

Game History

Very clichè: You are trying to stop a terrorist organization from taking over a tropical island with their new "chopper drones" technology. More coming soon!

The "reason"

Since Genesis/MegaDrive is my favorite console ever, I always wanted to program a game to it. I started this game for the actual Genesis hardware, but the programming became too dificult to me and I needed some extra time.
(UPDATE: I'm actually back at making this game for the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive)

Tech stuff

To test the game style and playability, I started it on my own Java Game engine (named Spine), but the engine itself is another WIP, lol. Than I started using Game Maker Studio to make it faster since there is nothing advanced on it. Since 2014 there was no big changes and several side projects. Recently (late 2016/2017) I moved the project back to Sega Genesis using the SGDK.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Marcella Santos for the actual box art, art for the MegaDrive cartridge label and manuals!
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