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: 

https://www.reboot-games.com/rebootnews/gravitic-mines-demo/

Order: 

https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1264


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!)


StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorAnderLex
GenreAction
Tags2D, Arcade, atari, atari-jaguar, cave-flyer, gravity-shooter, Indie, Pixel Art, Retro

Download

Download
GraviticMinesDemo-SkunkGD-Locked.ROM 2 MB

Install instructions

Gravitic Mines Demo for use with BigPEmu emulator for PC and Skunkboard/Jaguar GD Flash carts

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

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..