Intec
Release type: Incomplete
Release date: N/A (begun June 1995)
Levels: 1
Author: cly5m
Website: Autofish.net
Related games: N/A
After Blob, cly5m set aside RSD’s tools for about a year. When he returned, it was with another attempt at a scrolling shooter. More than cly5m’s other three games, Intec is just a concept demo. Rather than waste time designing a whole world, cly5m just threw down a few ideas, all contained more or less on a single screen.
The ideas in Intec are indeed advanced, and show some lateral thought in attempts to bypass the limitations of the engine and design tools. Since map dimensions are limited and the engine does not support auto-scrolling, cly5m chose to scroll the background around the player. The background tiles all animate to give the impression of rapid movement, and to keep the player from breaking the illusion the player’s ship can only move slightly forward and backward.
The illusion doesn’t quite work, but it’s a good try. Also of note are a huge and destructible vertical barrier – every shot drills a little more away – and a “shoot the core” boss moment. With a little work, all of these elements could have been combined with the advanced enemy patterns in Pipes to present a game technically far outside of Game-Maker’s listed abilities. Whether the result would be worth the effort is another story.
If nothing else, it would have been stylish; the ship from Intec is much more distinctive than the Pipes vessel, and overall the game shows a developed sense of visual design. Yet cly5m’s attentions almost immediately shifted, and any elegance in Intec is dwarfed compared to cly5m’s fourth and final Game-Maker game.
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Instructions[edit]
- Arrow keys: Move the ship
- Spacebar: Shoot
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Availability[edit]
Prior to this archive's online presence, this game is not known to be publicly available.
Archive History[edit]
For years, cly5m had maintained a page on his website with screenshots of unfinished and unreleased Game-Maker games. For a time, the occasional inquiry went unanswered. On May 20, 2011, cly5m responded positively to a new request, framed in the context of the pending revival of seminal independent game site Insert Credit. All four games were made available at that time, along with the entire directory structure of cly5m's Game-Maker installation.
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