A guy calling himself ClockworkBytes is working on a remake of Gloom Deluxe, which is an old first person shooter for the Amiga computer.
XGloom is a cross-platform re-implementation of the original Amiga game engine. The aim of the author is to bring Gloom Deluxe to modern systems with a lot of added features, such as improved controls, high-res textures, real 3D sprites and hardware accelerated graphics.
There are currently two videos of his work available on YouTube, but both are from 2010. Hopefully he will show more of his progress in the near future. Here are the videos:
Looks nice, doesn’t it? 🙂 I sure think so. It will be interesting to see what the final result will be like if released.
I’ve still got my old copy of Gloom in my diskette box. Might have a go at this game tomorrow. Got a bit of inspiration after watching the videos!
Very cool, I remember playing Gloom a lot on my A1200. More cartoonish than Doom but equally fun. Good memories 🙂
I’m having second thoughts about this… Is this real? The low resolution of the video doesn’t give much clues and there’s no sign of development anywhere, no website, no sources…
I suppose it is real. The author has been posting on Amigaworld.net concerning XGloom. You can find the thread here: http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=12588&forum=9&start=60&viewmode=flat&order=0
It has been a while since he last posted though, but time will show what happens. 🙂
I see. Didn’t looked at the Amigaworld.net. 1 year of inactity seems bad news… The project was great, portability was in mind.
Let’s hope that this project will be finished. I noticed in the thread that the author doesn’t have much spare time. 🙁