Red Terror (Playdate)
A downloadable game
Red Terror - a fight for freedom!
The year is 1935 and its a dark and bitter november night somewhere in the USSR. You awake in the middle of the night, "stuk stuk"... "STUK STUK"! Waking up in a feverish state of mind, you cant really tell if its just your heart banging away or if someone is at the door. As the NKVD burst your front door open you realize that the worst has come, the black cars are already parked outside your house and its time to go where most men never come back...
In this epic first-person shooter you play as a Alex, an inmate in a correctional labour camp of the USSR. As you awake in your cell you realize that the only way you'll make it out of here alive is if you take the fight to the camp guards yourself...
Fast paced action
Fight your way through 7 unique maps using your chainsaw, pistol and machinegun!
Customizable
Textures and sprites are all stored in 24-bit BMP format. You can easily change the textures as well as the enemies in the game to create your own spin on the game!
Maps are all created using the "Tiled Editor" (https://thorbjorn.itch.io/tiled)
The game uses standard file formats that are easily modifiable with tools of your own liking.
There is also an included guide on how to make your own maps, modify sprites and enemies - making it possible to create your own experience using the game.
Controls
Alternative controls
Does it run well on the device?
The game averages around 20-30 fps depending on the scene which works very well.
Here is a short video showcasing it running on the device
The future
There is still some graphics coming for this game and perhaps some more updates as well!
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Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $4.95 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- PC Port!Jun 22, 2024
- Improved rendering!Mar 06, 2024
- Updated modding guideMar 05, 2024
- New release!Feb 22, 2024
- More blood!Feb 21, 2024
- Make it more life like!Feb 03, 2024
- Get pistol whipped!Jan 09, 2024
- Gimme guns!Nov 21, 2023
Comments
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I am begging for someone non-cringe to make a first-person shooter for the Playdate
Santa has noted your wish :)
Hey, really enjoying the game! Is the OST for sale on Bandcamp somewhere? It reminds me a lot of HROT.
Hi! Thanks a lot, happy to hear that :)
I love HROT too, great game.
The music is from various artists, its all from audio jungle. I've put the links to the music (in game and menu) here, I dont think I would be able to put them together and sell them separatly for license reasons. But if you dig them you can purchase them yourself on audio jungle or possibly listen to them on soundcloud or something like that if they have their stuff there. Here are the links:
https://audiojungle.net/item/suspense-dark-drone/45405124
https://audiojungle.net/item/suspense-dark-background/42304902#
https://audiojungle.net/item/dark-tense-suspenseful-music/30070420
Ah right, no probs. They fit really well. Thanks for the links!
Are there any secret doors or rooms in the game? Should I be checking all the walls lol
Hi! And thanks for playing the game!
Nawh, there are no hidden doors. There is one ”hidden” place (check the devlogs) but it dosent require pushing walls to find any secrets, its just a place that is pretty maze like and ”off the beaten path”. I never really liked this feature in the old retro FPS (having to push up against hidden walls) and just always ignored it, but perhaps some people really liked it?
my playdate crashes with new update, i try to play on 1.9 or 1.10, i don't know why
Hi,
when does it crash? You happen to know which hardware revision your on?
I’d probably try uninstalling it once and re installing it and see if that helps. I havent seen any crashes myself.
so I only need 1_9 ? is this all I need to plate the last version? because it is only 14 mb instead of 35mb as previous versions
Hi and thanks for buying the game!
Yes, 1_9 is all you need. I have all the versions available in case someone want to try out an earlier versions to see what the game look like through out the development. Sorry if that caused some confusion.
Oh and forgot to mention - the reason it shrunk from 35mb down to 14mb is that I had used the wrong audio compression for the music. So there is nothing that has been deleted.
is it going to be available on the Catalog?
Hi!
I did submit it to catalog like half a year ago but wasnt accepted :(
I have re-submitted it with the release of 1.9 as I think the game has grown quite a lot since then so fingers crossed :)
Is there any reason they didn't accept it?
Unfortunately I did not receive any feedback on why it did'nt get accepted, there are some guidelines and such but its hard to say since there is no feedback. Im guessing its because it would take them to much time to deal with each entry that gets rejected
Hey, version 1.8 - choosing a weapon with a crank doesn't work well. The weapon skips very fast
Hi,
Yeah I agree, the feel there could be improved upon. Im still waiting for some updated weapons graphics and when I get that I think I will try and polish that a bit so it feels a bit nicer. Happy to see your testing out the alternative movement scheme!
I like that alternative scheme. In my opinion, it is the best scheme - there is a strafe and a crank is used.
It will be cool to see updated weapons graphics!
It crashes, it doesn't work, i don't know why
Odd, which version your on? When does it crash? Also what revision of playdate you got?
1.8 doesn't work for me, i installé and i want to play, i launch the game, and immediately Black screens and crash report
1.6 work very wells
There is some special code to handle the loading of graphics at startup and I did have to update it for 1.8 since it loads some more large graphics. If you dont ”respond” in a timely fashion when loading some graphics the playdate kills your game and it shows up as a crash just like this.
I have tested this on my playdate (of course :) and it works fine, but they did make a change to the hardware not to long ago. When did you buy your playdate? My guess its simply a bit slower at loading graphics on the new hardware which might cause this issue. If that is the issue I think I can fix it even without the new hardware, but good to know that this is the case
Hi again :)
So I've had the 1.8 version tested out in both hardware revision A & B and it seems to startup and run fine on both.
If your still having this issue I would recommend first to try and uninstall the game from your playdate and remove it on your playdate online account and then reupload it and install it on your device again and see if that solves it. I doubt the game save data could cause it to crash on startup but you could try deleting that as well (you would lose your saved progress though). If that dose'nt help either I would probably need more info on what exactly is happening.
I paid my playdate in occasion, by seller, but this isn't not new hardware, but i had two update 2.0 and 2.1
I will have to remember to get this on Payday. Looks very Wolfenstein and I love it.
Thanks :) yeah wolfenstein and doom were big inspirations to put this together, hope you try it out and if you do let me know what you thought of it :)
Did you actually a DOOM-like raycasting 3D engine???
Yepp, it is a raycasting 3D engine :) was a bit tricky to get it to run good on the playdate but a lot of fun too :)
Any plans to get this onto Catalog?
Hi!
I did submit it to the catalog but was’nt accepted, I think my game might be a bit to rich in violence to pass their guidlines unfortunately
;(
Very impressive footage
Thanks :)