Gravitic Mines - A cave flyer for the Atari Jaguar
A downloadable game for Windows
Welcome to the Gravitic Mines homepage on itch.io!
The game was released in 2022/2023 exclusively for the Atari Jaguar system in physical format and recently won the 2023 Atari awards show for Jaguar homebrew of the year.
In celebration of this honour I relaunched the project/game page.
What is Gravitic Mines?
Gravitic Mines is the cave flyer game for the Atari Jaguar that crosses 80' Gravitar and Lunar Lander mechanics with modern style graphics and puzzle/exploration flavours!
We took inspiration from several other games: Gravity Crash, Pixel Junk Shooter, Battlemorph, Rayman, just to name a few.
Highlights:
- Gravitic Mines interweaves shoot em up mechanics, gravity physics, puzzle gameplay and exploration in one compelling gaming package that will keep you occupied for hours!
- Lush, colorful graphics in 16 bit high color mode, hand painted artwork, over 40 MB of data
- locked 60FPS, smooth parallax scrolling
- 4 unique worlds, visual storytelling, 2 challenging campaigns, over 32 unique missions and exciting boss battles
- Witty mission briefings and backstory by Andrew Rosa
- High quality soundtrack with more than a dozen tracks and voice samples
- Online hiscore tables and unlockable achievements
- High quality physical release by Atariage, including amazing Boxart by William Thorup, available as special edition with soundtrack CD and a poster (and much more)
Free Demo download to play on your Jaguar console with Jaguar GD:
https://www.reboot-games.com/rebootnews/gravitic-mines-demo/
Order physical format:
https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1264
Buy your digital copy for use with Jaguar GD:
https://www.patreon.com/c/rebootgames/shop
Credits:
Coding/Engine/Tools: Lawrence Staveley
Graphics/World building: Alexander Grade
Level Design: Alexander Grade
Training Level Designs: Lawrence Staveley
Sound FX: Alexander Grade, Lawrence Staveley
Music: Roald Strauss
Story: Andrew Rosa
Ship Design/Sprite: Dugan Jackson
Testing: Atariage test crew including Sporadic, Saturn, Machine and many others (Thanks!)
Download
Install instructions
Gravitic Mines Demo for use with BigPEmu emulator for PC and Skunkboard/Jaguar GD Flash carts. Make sure to enable GD emulation in BigPemu.
Content:
- Play 3 training missions and the first 2 missions from the campaign (Pilot)
Controls (Jagpad layout):
- Left and Right on the directional pad: rotate ship clockwise or counter clockwise
- B: Thrust/Accelerate
- A: Shoot
- Hold C: Auto rotate ship to the floor, handy for landing
- L1 and R1 (Shoulder buttons): thrust sideways left/right
Mission:
- Collect batteries and survivors/pods to open the planetary shield
- Escape the level to win the mission
Have fun!
Development log
- Digital Release!1 day ago
- Video updateAug 09, 2024
- The asteroid belt incidentJul 14, 2024
- "Gravitic Flight School" announcement and teaserNov 08, 2023
- Walkthrough/Speedrun by "Machine"Nov 08, 2023
Comments
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Any chance there is a way to buy this outside of AtariAge? Love them, but they are backed up a year for shipping.
Thanks, but no, however I think AA should have some copies in stock..
Updated, its available digitally. Regards!