Gateworld (video game)
{{Short description|1993 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
|title = Gateworld: The Home Planet
|image = Gateworld cover.jpg
|caption =
|developer = Homebrew Software
|publisher = Homebrew Software
|composer = Prosonus
|designer = Ken Rogoway
Dave Farquharson
|programmer = Ken Rogoway
Dave Farquharson
|artist = Edge Creations
Softscene
|engine =
|released = 1993
|genre = Platform
|modes = Single-player
|platforms = DOS
}}
Gateworld: The Home Planet is a platform game developed and published by Homebrew Software and released in 1993. This game was Homebrew Software's first software product.{{cite web | title=About HomeBrew Software | url=ftp://ftp.lanet.lv/pub/programming/mirror-x2ftp/biz/homebrew.txt | publisher= | date= | accessdate=December 16, 2016}} There are three episodes of 12 levels each, the first available as shareware.
Plot
Gameplay
Each episode is divided into three acts. Each act has three normal levels and a boss level. The player's goal is to get Klondike through the levels, by finding the gate teleporter key and accessing the gate teleporter to proceed. Bosses in boss levels are indestructible, so the player must avoid them. To finish the final boss level of an episode, the player must destroy the base machine to get the final gate teleporter key.
Klondike is able to fire his weapon straight or diagonally up or down. Some enemies are harmless, but obstructive while others cause Klondike damage on impact or with projectiles. Traps are also present throughout the levels. Canisters can be picked up for health, stars can be picked up for powerups (or the occasional harmful stars) and guns can be picked up for ammunition.
Development
The game was under development by Apogee Software in 1991, but the quality of the game was deemed poor and the project was cancelled in 1992, then replaced with Major Stryker.{{cite magazine |title=Apogee Software Interview |magazine=Game Bytes |issue=5 |url=https://archive.org/details/gb05-gra_zip |date=September 11, 1992}} Homebrew Software took over where the game left off.{{cite web | title=The Apogee FAQ Section | url=http://www.rinkworks.com/apogee/s/2.5.shtml | publisher= | date= | accessdate=December 16, 2016}} Homebrew planned to port the game to Windows by 2001, but the port was never released.{{cite web|title=Homebrew Products - Windows |url=http://homebrewsoftware.com/html/windows.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010303011511/http://homebrewsoftware.com/html/windows.htm |archive-date=March 3, 2001}}
References
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External links
- {{moby game|id=/gateworld-the-home-planet|name=Gateworld}}
- [http://www.homebrewsoftware.com/index.html Homebrew Software official website]
Category:Cancelled Windows games
Category:Science fiction video games
Category:Side-scrolling platformers