Skyhammer

By: Derek Yu

On: July 31st, 2006

Ah, the Metroidvania / Castleroid / Roidcastle / Metrocastle game… when they were in vogue in the freeware community, you’d see announcements for one of these pop up like every month at least. But the projects got scrapped faster than you could say “non-linear platforming action-adventure RPG.” Seriously, where the fuck is Chaos Gate? That game looked pretty sweet.

Skyhammer is another fatality in the now-dwindling (I think) Castlemetro genre. Which is a shame, because like A Game with a Kitty (the creator’s previous release which you can find by the same link), this game boasts some very well-executed gameplay. The ~45 minutes that there is of it, at least. Check it out.

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http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

-2 NHP’s for coining the term “Roidcastle.”

However, if I may, +3 NHP’s to myself for remembering Chaos Gate.

Which I remember.
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

…which I am immediately stripped of for not knowing HTML is disabled.
Teeth

Haha, nerdo
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

I’m… I’m not good at internets.
Lord Don

Love the spritework on this. Control isn’t bad either. Too bad it’s dead for good.
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

What ever happened to FAIND, anyway?

This game would’ve been sweet.
Advenith

Man… Now I want to play Chaos Gate. Badly.
Sergio

Me too… and Mina of the Pirates.
Hey, why don’t you make a Metroidvania game, Derek? What’s stopping you?
http://funkymasterm.deviantart.com/ MasterM

[01:38] MasterM: Posted by Derek Yu 7 days ago
[01:38] MasterM: Seriously, where the fuck is Chaos Gate?
[01:38] Ben: hahaha
[01:38] MasterM: so?
[01:39] Ben: umm
[01:39] Ben: on my hard drive… incomplete
[01:39] MasterM: I still think zorro tau is a stupid wanker for not releasing mina
[01:39] Ben: hahaha
[01:39] MasterM: whats so funny about that
[01:40] MasterM: if you people dont finish your stuff make it abandonware at least
[01:41] Ben: if I made Chaos Gate abandonware I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night
[01:41] Ben: plus then it’d be garunteed that I never finished it ;^p
[01:43] MasterM: I dont get how you did the parallax in it since it is done in 1.2
[01:43] Ben: I switched over to 1.5
[01:43] Ben: there was a little parallax before but it was done with active objects… big mess
[01:43] MasterM: and added the parallax
[01:44] MasterM: well now that explains a lot otherwise it would have been impressive considering the fact it was done in mmf 1.2 which doesnt mean the game isnt impressive but i am not going to be nice since you havent released it yet