Tyrian 3D
Tyrian, the 1995 shooter, rebuilt in 3D.
I grew up playing the Tyrian shareware in the nineties. The game is open source now and its original data is free. Mostly I built this so other people can play it, and so it might feel to them the way it felt to me as a kid.
What is new and what is not
It is built on OpenTyrian, the open-source port of the original, and it runs on the original Tyrian 2.1 data. The levels, weapons, enemies, shop and story are the game as it was. The picture is new. Ships, enemies and props are modelled in Blender. Everything else is extruded from the original sprites, so the terrain you fly over is the 1995 artwork given depth.
All four episodes are playable from the title screen to the credits, with the shop between levels, saved games, high scores, two players, and the original cheat codes.
Running it
| Action | Keyboard | Gamepad |
|---|---|---|
| Move | Arrows or WASD | D-pad or left stick |
| Fire | Space or J | A or right trigger |
| Rear weapon mode | Enter or L | X |
| Pause | Esc or P | Start |
On a touch screen the ship follows your finger and fires while you touch.