Warblade

Homage to Galagalonia

As George Orwell might have said but did not:

"What joy it was to be there in 1981, with the Revolution yet young! When one came straight from England the aspect of the arcade was bracing and startling. Attendants and gamers looked at you in the face and treated you as an equal. Nobody said 'Senor' or 'Don' or even 'Usted'; everyone called everyone 'Comrade' and 'Thou,' and said 'Salud!' instead of 'Buenos dias'. From every machine blared the sounds and sights of this new revolution. I had come with some notion of writing newspaper articles, but I had joined the game at once because in that atmosphere it seemed the only thing to do. Our training was cursory, almost comical in its ineptness, but soon I found myself on the front, commanding a small craft against the Fascist alien onslaught..."

If people were still refining and developing Galaga today, what you'd get would look a whole lot like Warblade, a one-man project from Edgar Vigdal in Norway. As you'd expect you pilot a small ship that slides left-right across the bottom of the screen as wave after wave of invaders attack, with all kinds of enemies, bosses, weapons, powerups, and 100 levels in all.

The Developer Says

Warblade is an arcade shoot'em up game. It is a PC remake of an old Amiga game that I made. It was called Deluxe Galaga. Deluxe Galaga may look a little bit like the old arcade game Galaga, and have some game features that can resemble Galaga. But as I had never played Galaga (the arcade version) when I made Deluxe Galaga, it is mostly made up of my own ideas and designs (with a lot of help and useful tips from the users of DG).

Reviews

"Warblade is Galaga brought into the twenty-first century. The basic game has been polished and redesigned until it shines like a golden nugget sparkling in a river bed."
   - Bytten

"From Norway comes an outstanding 2D shooter..."
   - Adrenalin Vault