A downloadable game for Windows

Blue Max was an isometric bi-plane shooter for the 8-bit computers like Atari, Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum.

Blue Max

Some people said it was a 3D River Raid but Blue Max was much more than simple shooter. The player could land on runway, fly over river, land, bridges or city. The enemies were in the planes, tanks, boats or cars on the road. 

If you want to know more, just look at this video from the original game.

This is my attempt to create a remake of Blue Max with real 3D graphics. It should give you the feel like the original game but with some improvements.

The game is almost finished. It's completely playable but has some bugs that aren't very problematic.

The controls

Cursor keys - steering the plane

A - increase speed

Z - decrease speed

shift - shoot by machine gun

ctrl - release the bomb

P - pause game

Keys from 1 to 8 - change camera

plus/minus on the keypad - change camera zoom

Source code

This is an open-source project. You can download the sources at: https://github.com/GadZombie/bluemax3d

Download

Download
Zipped game 8.5 MB
Download
Windows installer 7.6 MB

Install instructions

Install or unpack the game. It should be in folder where you have permissions to save files because the game saves high score file in the same folder as the exe file.

Development log

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