James Vernon has just released two wonderful games for the 83/4+, Invaded, a side scrolling shoot-em-up, and Alien Breed IV, the conclusion to his popular series.

Invaded features many different enemy types, bosses, fun terrain, and a few other things. The most notable feature of all, however, is a powerup called "the Orb". the Orb can be attached to one's ship on either front or back by simply running into it, and detached again with alpha. when attached, it acts as a shield against weaker bullets, while leaving it on its own causes it to fire at the same time you do. you can also pick up weapon bonuses which increase the blob's power, giving it different weapons while it is attached or the ability to fire four bullets when detached. altogether, it makes for a pretty unique experience.
oh, and it includes a custom level editor as well, written for windows machines.  

the second of James' two games, Alien Breed IV: Final Assault, is a top down shooter. there are separate objectives for each level, but the basic premise of the game is "to blast away as many of the aliens as you can to save the Human race." it has a pretty full feature set, including clean, four-way smooth scrolling maps, interactable map elements, different weapon types, a radar, alien spawning pits, multiple enemy types, one way doors, time limits for certain areas, and more! the enemy AI is a bit basic, but with that many enemies being simulated at once i'm not going to complain. check it out!

Glad to see people still releasing awesome assembly games

That shooter looks really fun -- I want to try it sometime soon. But what is that boss

It reminds me of Pac Man, to a certain extent.

I remember scrolling through Ti-calc.org and seeing the Alien Breed series, back before I even joined omni!
I never once downloaded it sadly... But after seeing these screenies, I really want to!

I was surprised to see the title of this thread. At first I thought a bot had bumped a really old thread or someone had mistakenly necroposted.   I kind of assumed these games had already seen a 83+ series release, and I didn't even know James Vernon was still around and programming. O_o

When I saw the AB4 update few days ago, I was like "woah, somebody still works on that?"
Good to see the full version.

That's definitively a long-time TI coder and one of the few who remained around for so long ans is still active. Kinda like Kerm and BrandonW I guess. Or maybe PatrickD and myself if we count those that stayed around that long, but are not necessarily active coding anymore.

*2025

http://ourl.ca/3119

That's how long I have to finish Illusiat 13

Hey guys! Just to clarify, both games are minor updates. AB4 was released as a full version back in December 2001 for TI-83/83+/86, but due to a file archive compression at ticalc.org a few years ago, only the TI-86 version has been showing since

That boss shown on Invaded is on one of the demo levels, which is why I was lazy and just drew it as a smiley face haha

It's cool to see the TI scene still kicking along, I normally get nostalgic every year or so and release an update or 2, or even finish one of the many projects I never got around to completing lol

- JamesV
http://www.jvti.org