The Lady (Atari 8-bit homebrew game)

A strong female gunsliger, known as The Lady, must fight and defeat three outlaws to survive. Press the right key before enemy shoots.

DEVELOPMENT
Two years ago I noticed a nice Commodore 64 homebrew game called Tombstones (2017) by Megastyle. I liked it and I tought that I could do something similar.

Atari 8-bit computers are 2.5 years older than C64 but have some strenghts I could have used, even considered the fact I am not a skilled coder.

Thanks to 16 shades of one color graphic mode, I decided to make the game look like old black and white western movies and I designed a smooth background.
Taking advantage of A8 widescreen and overscan features, there's a "cinemascope" screen and duelist enter from sides.

Atari sprites have a limited horizontal width but unlimited heigh. Therefore I asked TIX if he could design tall characters.
Konstantinos made ninety awesome 16x64 pixels 3 colors animations frames and smartly solved the problem of the deaths, not easy because of tight sprites.

Regarding music, I asked Miker to make Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly main theme.
He always wanted to do it for Atari and in fact the result is really good.
Recently the Italian composer, one of the greatest and most influential film composers of all time, passed away and we would like to honor him.
Michal made victory (Johnny Cash Ballad of a Teenage Queen) and death tunes too.

The game was programmed with dmsc's FastBasic.
Not only Daniel made an awesome new language, but he helped me when I was stuck.

Sprites were made with Atari Player Editor and tunes were composed with Raster Music Tracker (RIP Radek Sterba).

The game adjusts speed for PAL and NTSC machines.

On May 2020 the project was nearly finished therefore I decided to enter ABBUC Software Contest 2020, a very famous competition organized by the club of which I am member.

The project would never have been possible without AtariAge 8-bit computers forum.

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