A Schoolboy’s Fantasy

It’s 1982 and I’m doodling a game of asteroids into my exercise book case during double Math. I’m imagining the little spaceship blowing up that big rock and…
…Cut to 2007 and I need imagine no more. Sketchfighter 4000 Alpha is a completely hand-drawn arcade game from Ambrosia and Lost Minds. I’ve been addicted to Swoop and Maelstrom in the past so I expect I’ll be losing many hours to Sketchfighter yet. Have you noticed the hand-drawn gaming trend? It has a two-player mode, an Internet multiplayer mode and a level editor for players to sketch their own battlegrounds. Now, where’s that exercise book?

David Rainbird
Posted on Tuesday, 6th of March 2007 Permalink Comment (0)