The luminary known as The Bard (famous for the "Why HeroQuest is so Great" video) streams twice a week on Twitch and is known throughout the lands to "power up" at the start of many a stream by playing a round of Rastan. As he is also a fan of the Amiga, I rushed to tell him of your port as soon as I myself learned of it! Indeed, he was interested in such a endeavor and he played your demo for the very first time last Wednesday! The first half hour of the stream is where you can rewatch that event. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1864569290
Many of the regulars in the chat are very well familiar with Rastan thanks to the Bard's work and it was fun to see their reactions to this Amiga port also. I know that many of us in Bard's community will greatly await the day your port is finished, for it no doubt shall be a true version of Rastan!
Very cool to see! As many have said, this actually improves on the original with sprites that are wonderfully drawn and feel very true to the arcade whilst being given a modern makeover. Well done treading that line so well!
One thing - and this is just me being curious and in no way critical - in AGA versions do you think the parallax backgrounds from the arcade might be possible to achieve?
Really great work, excited to see updates as you work on them!
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The luminary known as The Bard (famous for the "Why HeroQuest is so Great" video) streams twice a week on Twitch and is known throughout the lands to "power up" at the start of many a stream by playing a round of Rastan. As he is also a fan of the Amiga, I rushed to tell him of your port as soon as I myself learned of it! Indeed, he was interested in such a endeavor and he played your demo for the very first time last Wednesday! The first half hour of the stream is where you can rewatch that event.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1864569290
Many of the regulars in the chat are very well familiar with Rastan thanks to the Bard's work and it was fun to see their reactions to this Amiga port also. I know that many of us in Bard's community will greatly await the day your port is finished, for it no doubt shall be a true version of Rastan!
Very cool to see! As many have said, this actually improves on the original with sprites that are wonderfully drawn and feel very true to the arcade whilst being given a modern makeover. Well done treading that line so well!
One thing - and this is just me being curious and in no way critical - in AGA versions do you think the parallax backgrounds from the arcade might be possible to achieve?
Really great work, excited to see updates as you work on them!
this looks fab!
Thanks everybody, I'm glad you enjoy it :))
Is there a WHDLOAD version of the demo, or how can I start this on an Amiga 4000 with Amiga OS 3.2.2 without disk or Gotek? Thx
There's a bit of a problem with HD loading atm, but I'll upload a HD version as well when it's all sorted out.
Thank you so much!
Nice lesson to people who said that Amiga couldn't do arcade/console perfect conversions.
Pixel art is outstanding!
BLOWN AWAY!
Great game!