Galencia

Galencia

Game No.	462
Voting	7.40 points, 5 votes
Developer	Jason Aldred
Company	The Galencia Development Team
Publisher	Protovision
Musician	Pulsebot, Saul Cross
HVSC-File	/MUSICIANS/H/Highway_Guy/Galencia.sid
Release	2017
Platform	C64
Genre	Arcade, Shoot'em Up
Gamemode	Single player
Operation
Media
Language
Information	Commercially available for $4.99 USD

Description[edit | edit source]

Galencia can be described as nothing less than a love letter to the 1981 classic Galaga, a proper port of which has never really existed on the C64. The game itself is not a port of the original Zilog Z80 code and it shares no graphical or sound assets with the 1981 game to which it pays considerable homage.

The extremely impressive graphics used in Galencia are of a caliber more often associated with the C64 demo scene than C64 games. The game play itself is very familiar to anyone who has ever played a Shoot 'em up. The graphics and sound place Galencia in the same rare territory on the C64 as the likes of Elvira, Newcomer, and Donkey Kong Arcade in that it is a game that, upon casual observation, could be mistaken for a 16-bit Amiga title.

Sprites are large and colorful with extremely smooth animations. The game far exceeds the well known 8 sprite limit of the VIC-II graphics chip through clever raster timings and careful planning on the part of the developer. Static and animated graphics appear in the border area. The SID music is very up beat and engrossing, very much adding to the ambiance of the game.

Development[edit | edit source]

Galencia was developed over approximately a six month period in 2017. The bulk of the code was written in the first four months while the coder Jason Aldred had the misfortune of being unemployed. Progress slowed somewhat when the developer found full time employment.

MOS 6510 Assembly code was written in CBM prg Studio.
Graphical assets were created using SpritePad and ChrPad.
SID music was created using GoatTracker.

Version History

Galencia 1.0 · 2017-07-22 · PAL only initial release
Galencia 1.1 · 2017-07-23 · bug fix.
Galencia 1.2 · 2017-07-30 · bug fix.
Galencia 1.3 · 2017-08-13 · preliminary NTSC support.
Galencia 1.4 · 2017-08-20 · full NTSC support.

Game Features[edit | edit source]

PAL and NTSC support as of v1.4.
50 Levels of Game Play
Asteroid Fields
Challenging Stages
Boss Battles
Ebb and Flow difficulty curve
Siren enemy with Tractor beam for Double Ship Action
Introduction, Launch and Completion sequences
6 Brand new SID tunes, unique to this project

Options

Load, Save and Reset High Scores
Extensive display options including 3 levels of Starfield Brightness
Three different Score Palettes
Tournament Mode
Music and Simultaneous Sound Effects or Sound Effects only

Design[edit | edit source]

Hints[edit | edit source]

Controls

Keyboard controls

F1 Settings (title screen only)
Q Quit Game
Space Pause game

Joystick controls

Move left
Move right
Fire

Solution[edit | edit source]

Cheats[edit | edit source]

Voting[edit | edit source]

Voting of the C64-Wiki-User (10=the best vote):
7.40 points at 5 votes (rank 299). You need to be logged in to cast a vote.
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