Bizarro Untergrund

A game written for 3DO using my own 3d engine called Bizarro Engine.

It is an early version made for the retro platform game jam #6, not entirely finished and the engine is not optimized yet to handle the big sprawling caves. Early versions of it with very small rooms or caves would run a bit better, but near the end I decided to draw some more corridors and cave as I thought it was very small for a level.

You basically use your particle weapon to mine gems of four kinds. Jagurel, Saturnite, Playstone and Threedium. Oxygen is depleted so you can't be too greedy. Green lamps will light the surrounding area but don't get too near as they damage you. Pink flowers are bouncing traps, they will proper you if you get close. Finally, there is no ending yet, either you jump in a box of stars like the first level or you die and the screen turns red. It's a work in progress that I will continue and optimize later after the compo ends.

You can try emulators like 4DO or Opera or Phoenix (and please, overclock if you want to have a good experience :). On real 3DO the frame rate is about 10-15fps or even less sometimes. Original simple preview rooms would get 20-25 or over 30 though. There is work to be done in the engine to keep up with the 3DO.

Updates:

V1.0.1

• Some frame rate improvements
• difficulty settings
• added one more lighter map