2023-11-01 Retrofire 1.3.1 released!

• New feature - falling rocks blasted from the ground with rockets
• Some performance fixes

And of course all features from last version 1.3:

Tons of fixes, upgrades and new features from version 1.3!

• Sandbox mode - do whatever you want! You're immortal and have infinite everything
• New survivors acting, including watching around, better physics, more intelligent walking and more
• New mission task - dogfight
• Rewritten mountains generator - now generated landscapes looks better than the handmade in main scenario! Try it in random game mode.
• New cinematic camera
• Funny big headed survivors mode enabled by cheat code (read below)
• New cheat codes
• And much more! If you want to know all the changes, please look at my github and read the commit history: https://github.com/GadZombie/retrofire/activity

Introduction

The primary idea of this game was to recreate the old classic from the 8-bit computers 'Rescue on Fractalus' by Lucasfilm Games. But I also wanted to connect it with another old game named Retrofire which was a 3D version of Lunar Lander.

In Rescue on Fractalus you fly over the planet Fractalus and find lost pilots. You must  fight with the alien forces and return to the base. The game is a 3D simulation that had mind blowing graphics back in the day.

Lunar Lander is a quite simple game. You land on the flat surface fighting with gravity.

Retrofire is a similar idea but it's in isometric view and you move in 3D space. Very impressive game as for the times when it was created.

So, I connected these ideas, added couple of my ideas and used the OpenGL to render 3D graphics.

Player must finish 25  levels. After finishing the main scenario, you will start again in the random generated scenario with new 25 missions.

You will find a few flat places to land and to rescue the survivors. There are also the enemy landings and the aliens will destroy your lander when they get inside. But you can kill them all. There are also enemy turrets that will shoot you and flying enemy aircrafts. You can fly over the planet and shoot them. After taking the rescuers you must return to the mothership and leave them there. Everytime you rescue a man, he will give you some fuel.

You'll get an upgrades in a shop between the game levels.

You don't have to take survivors in every level. In some levels your mission is to destroy the enemies.

I finished this project more than 15 years ago but recently I got back to it and started upgrading it. Now it is really much better and still developing!

Game features

• Two different weapons
• Auto aiming system for both weapons
• Shop with upgrades:
  • Weapons
  • Fuel tank
  • Shields
  • Capacity
• Increasing difficulty level
• Main scenario with 25 levels (in Polish version there's a storyline)
• Infinite number of randomly generated scenarios
• Sandbox mode
• Open world, you can fly wherever you want
• Different planet conditions, including:
  • gravity
  • wind
  • air density
  • fog density
  • day or night
• Annoying enemies on the ground: two types of turrets
• More annoying enemies in the air: fighters
• Different types of missions
• Collecting survivors
• A possibility to release a part of survivors when they are too heavy
• Aliens pretending to be survivors
• Blood and violence when you hit survivors or aliens including: blood, fire and screams ;)
• Visible damages on your lander, distorted lander parts
• Funny survivors animations and smart reacting to your lander
• Saving and loading game progress in couple of slots
• Different camera views including:
  • view from behind
  • cockpit view from inside
  • view from nearest landings
  • cinematic camera
  • and more
• Superb music in intro, outro, title by Karl Casey!
• In-game music played  by me on my guitar
• Many cheat codes
• Level editor

Cheat codes

If the game is too difficult, you can always cheat. Why not?

So, just type during the game the codes on your keyboard and it will be activated or deactivated:

• FULL - Gives you full upgrades
• GOD - Immortality
• FUEL - Full tank of fuel
• WEAPON - full ammunition
• LIVES - gives you one more life
• LOAD - gives you maximum load capacity for taking the rescuers
• TIME - stops the time counting
• MOTHER - takes you to the mothership immediately
• FINISH - lets you finish current mission without accomplishing the mission
• DOWN - immediately takes you under the mothership
• BIGHEADS - enables funny big headed survivors

Source code

This is an open source project now. I released the whole sources and it can be downloaded from my github: https://github.com/GadZombie/retrofire

Just play

But give it a try. The game is pretty addicting when you'll get used to the control. My friends played it alot during the development and they really liked it.