Really Slick's cave-flyer/shooter Retrobooster hit Steam last week and Terry Welsh, the game's developer generously provided us with a a few codes to giveaway here on the site. We've got five codes total to hand out, and we'll be giving you the chance to win one starting today until Monday, July 28.
The 2.5D cave shooter/flyer Retrobooster will finally see its release on Steam this Friday. The game came out a few months back, available for purchase through its website, but its Greenlight campaign has been ongoing. Now, all of that waiting for votes has finally paid off.
You may remember a little indie title we've talked about here before called Retrobooster. While the co-op aspects may not have been everything we were quite looking for, the game itself is a solid twin-stick shooter/cave-flyer. The developer, Terry Welsh, once worked for NASA on some of their simulators and that background definitely shows in the game's controls. It's well worth a play and not only can you get the 1.1 version now, you can also get it on sale for the next couple days.
Really Slick's first game, Retrobooster, is a cave-flyer, survival shooter that returns to the days of gaming yore where flying around in space meant you had to be conscious of pesky things like physics and gravity. So we dusted off our piloting skills and took it out for a spin....
Co-op space shooter Retrobooster is set to release February 21st for Windows and Linux. This space shooter may be set at "1980s difficulty" but it certainly doesn't have 1980s controls or graphics. The game balances navigation, intense firefights, puzzles, and high speed flying into a beautiful looking experience.
The last we heard of the physics-based co-op space shooter Retrobooster, developer Terry Welsh was sharing with us how implementing cooperative gameplay, in what had begun and was intended to be a single player game, changed his perspective on things. Those cooperative elements are still having an influence as testing of the game has progressed and lead Terry to release one of the biggest updates to the game yet.
This confession should come first: I seriously considered making Retrobooster only a single player experience when I started it. As a solo developer, more game modes sounded daunting. Fortunately, all the complaints from friends and my memories of co-op and melee games were too much to bear. In fact, the multiplayer modes in Retrobooster were origi...
Looking for a way to spend your Saturday afternoon? You're in luck! A handful of independent developers have teamed up to show off their games, chat with fans, and, hopefully, get some support for their game on Steam Greenlight. The Greenlight Supershow kicked off at 10:30 AM EDT this morning with a twitch.tv stream of over 20 different games currently seeking support on the Greenlight service. The list of games, which can be found after the break, includes a number of cooperative titles, including FORCED, Retrobooster, and BroForce. So hop on over to the live stream to check out a few titles and show some support.
Late last year we sat down with Terry Welsh, the one man development team of Really Slick, to talk about his retro cave shooter, Retrobooster. The game places you in the shoes of a pilot (or pilots, if playing cooperatively) who's the last best hop to fight off the horde of invading aliens and save the galaxy. This isn't your typical twin-stick shooter, though, as Terry's worked hard to get the physics behind your space flight just right. That means Newton's First Law of Motion is in full effect as you'll be having to balance your thrust and propulsion to avoid running into everything. He's the right man for the job, too, as he once worked at NASA constructing flight simulators.
