Phaze Invaders (WIP)

Prologue

In July 1968, in a location in the United States of America, a UFO crashed to the ground under mysterious circumstances. The event caused a sensation and as much as the government tried to keep the event hidden the news spread, but through lies and cover-ups everything was cleverly hidden and for the majority of the population that incident is still considered a fiction.

What no one has ever revealed is that on that day something was recovered and hidden in the utmost secrecy.

An unknown mechanical device of alien origin, unknown at the time, which scientists and engineers studied for decades to come.

The device revealed to be a warp drive, capable of moving large vehicles.

It was thus assembled inside a Technologically Advanced Combat Tank, armed with Powerful Laser Cannons, in an attempt to exploit its potential and create a weapon capable of offering absolute military supremacy.

The name of the secret project was "T.A.N.C." (Tactical AdvaNced Combat)

Unfortunately the warp drive didn't work as hoped, requiring an impossible amount of energy to activate.

During an experiment the engineers managed to begin the activation of the warp drive. T.A.N.C. disappeared completely, instantly transporting itself tens of kilometers away. During this experiment, an entire state suddenly went into electrical blackout, for 12 hours.

For these reasons the experiment was interrupted and abandoned and T.A.N.C. remained turned off and inactive, up to the present time when a World Global Danger is menacing the whole human race.

Present Day

During a usual day, while everything flows the same as every other day, a strange chain of accidents begin to occur, simultaneously throughout the Globe, which caused electronic devices to fail one after the other.

From the smallest systems to the largest and most advanced systems that move entire cities and ensure the functioning of all vital services of man, they slowly begin to turn off and chaos started to fall everywhere.

That same advanced technology that had made humanity so proud of its electronic discoveries and conquests was turning against human kind.

At first it was thought to be anomalies in the Earth's magnetic fields or explosions of Sunspot Radiation,

Scientists around the world were groping in the dark. But something terrible was about to happen, to give an explanation to all that mystery.

Flying objects begin to appear in the skies of the major cities, leaving every civilization astonished to observe the skies.

Those brief and excited moments of curiosity and hope, soon gave way to the real and chilling truth, fear.

The aliens believed to originate from planet Phaze, once approached the cities, revealed their true intentions, by starting to bomb everything, showing death and destruction.

Humanity was hit at the most delicate moment, after being deprived of all defenses and technological weapons capable of counterattacking, both airborne and terrestrial.

In those terrible moments in which everything seems lost, an astonishing discovery rekindles a faint hope for human survival.

During that chaos something was happening to T.A.N.C. That invisible energy that was annihilating human technology, was rekindling all the circuits of T.A.N.C. infusing it with an incredible power and energy thousands of times greater than that tested in the various experiments. T.A.N.C became active once again.

Will the human race be able to exploit this last hope to save planet Earth?

T.A.N.C

You are the only Military Engineer who has secretly worked on the construction of "T.A.N.C." and knows it well enough to be able to activate it. It is therefore your desperate task to take it on a mission towards the alien threat.

You will have to pilot your TANC along the streets of the city under siege, moving it (left and right) to aim and destroy any flying object attacking the area, with the help of your powerful Twin-Cannon Lasers, powered by the TANC's Warp Core.

At the same time, you will have to avoid being hit by the lethal projectiles fired by the enemies.

Luckily for you, TANC uses a secret technology that provides it with an energy shield, capable of resisting numerous damages, but every time the shield absorbs a hit TANC loses energy, until it is completely exhausted. If this happens, TANC's Core functionality becomes unstable at which point that it explodes.

T.A.N.C requires a smooth moving platform onto which it operates. If this gets damaged it slows the movement of TANC. The more it gets damaged the more it slows it down.

ENERGY CELLS

Destroying enemy aircrafts sometimes they release some energy cells in the explosion that fall to the ground and can be recovered and absorbed by your TANC's core.

There are 3 types of cells:

• GREEN POD: The Green Energy Cell provides a small but valuable recovery of your tank's energy.
• RED POD: The Red Energy Cell provides a boost to your guns, allowing you to increase your firepower, but for a limited time.
• BLUE POD: The Blue Energy Cell Extends the maximum capacity of your tank's energy, allowing you to store more energy.

It is therefore necessary to recover energy cells to restore the energy of the shield and to power it up, at the same time dodge as much damage as possible to successfully complete your mission and avoid the destruction of the vehicle and the entire planet.

ENEMIES

Confront all the enemies that will attack you and eliminate all the threats of the city. When you have secured the area you will Warped to another Area.

WARP PORTAL

When all zones of a city are secured, (number of enemies on the radar defeated per zone) you are teleported through the TANC warp core to an new area.

HUD Telemetry

The indicator at the bottom will provide you with valuable information on the mission and the status of your TANC.

• Area: Through the sophisticated mapping system of TANK, the headquarters can check your position and tell you where you are.
• Energy: You Current TANC ENERGY
• Aliens: Remaining Aliens to destroy to clear the Area
• Score: A rating for your achievements
• Hi-Score: The Highest Rating so far

Controls

• Use Joystick Port 2
• Left and Right Move Tank
• Fire Button fires you tank rockets
• Holding Joystick Down will activate the shield (Not yet Implemented)

Credits

• Code - Prince / Phaze101
• Music - Crain / Phaze101 and Xavier
• Graphics - Golden Dragon

Dedicated

To all my supports on Patreon,  Ko-fi and YouTube. You are my strength in keeping me going.  Thank you so much.

To all those that have the patience to follow me on twitch and keep me company during my streams on Twitch. You are all fantastic and your interaction on the channel makes me feel alive. Thank you all for being there.

 To the Italian community on Sam's Twitch channel backtothebit that every Thursday we have a laugh together.

Special thanks also go to SAM (the magician, the singer, the retro fixer, the gamer and the Real hardware only man) for the laughs that we have together on his Twitch channel mentioned above.  This game started from nothing on his channel. It was just a test initially.

Releases

WIP

Minimum System Requirements

• Commodore 64
• 64KB Ram
• 6510 1Mhz CPU
• VIC-II GPU
• SID
  

Note: No Commodore 64 OS Updates required

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