Robotz DX - Traditional old-school arena shooter based on an Atari ST (16-bit) game. My first post-tutorial GM program!

KEYBOARD CONTROLS

Cursor Keys - Movement (8-directional).
Z/Y/C - Shoot. Hold down for auto fire, tap for rapid manual fire.
X - Hold down to lock your current facing direction (strafe).
P - Pauses game. Z or P continues play (in game only).
Q - Ends current game and returns to title screen (in game only).
F - Toggles full-screen/windowed mode (from title screen only).
I - Toggles instructions (from title screen only).
J - Toggles controller type (from title screen only).
ESC - Quits game.

The game (on first load) defaults to windowed mode with the keyboard for controls. However, there is some limited joypad support, selectable via two seperate configurations by pressing the 'J' key on the titlescreen; JoyA and JoyB.

JOYA - XBOX360 JOYPAD CONTROLS

POV Hat/D-Pad - Movement (8-directional).
Button A - Shoot. Hold down for auto fire, tap for rapid manual fire.
Right Shoulder Button - Hold down to lock your current facing direction (strafe).
Start - Pauses game. Button A continues play (in game only).

JOYB - GENERIC JOYPAD CONTROLS

X/Y Axis - Movement (8-directional).
Button 1 - Shoot. Hold down for auto fire, tap for rapid manual fire.
Button 6 - Hold down to lock your current facing direction (strafe).
Button 8 - Pauses game. Button 1 continues play (in game only).

Note that the joypad code is a bit of a rush job; the button layout may not be suitable for your particular joypad. I strongly recommend that after loading the game for the first time (which creates the .ini file), you open robotz.ini in notepad and change the shoot, strafe and pause button numbers to something more comfortable.

Download and read the readme.txt for game backstory, full instructions and play guide.

Tags: oldschool, arcade, atari, robots, pixel, art

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