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I didn't use FreeDOS to make, but there was an MS-DOS game jam a couple of years ago for which i made a 3D platformer/adventure game[0] (it might sound a bit to
by badsectoracula 5y ago
I didn't use FreeDOS to make, but there was an MS-DOS game jam a couple of years ago for which i made a 3D platformer/adventure game[0] (it might sound a bit too big for a jam since most are like 2-6 days but that jam lasted for about two months, i made the game in about five weeks spread within those months). Later ported to other platforms too (and made a few minor improvements in terms of fixing bugs and improving performance - though the game itself is basically the same as it was when the jam ended).
But it does run in FreeDOS, in fact there is a video Jim Hall (the author of the article and the FreeDOS maintainer) made where he plays a bit of the game[1]. Note that since that version both performance and some bugs have been improved/fixed (also i'm working on a new update that improves the performance even further (i've actually made a full playthrough on a 133MHz P1 laptop i have here).
The development itself was done on Windows though and i recently ported the editor to Linux[2].
I haven't done anything else since then but the engine was written to be separate from the game and i want to separate it from the source too at some point. I did consider making a game for the dungeon crawler jam last year but i wasn't very motivated as 7 days felt too little for making something interesting (IMO) and only made a small prototype for walking around [3] (that was done before the jam to ensure the engine was usable for making a game like that, but i lost interest before the jam even began :-P). Also it wasn't specifically for DOS or retro machines in general, i just thought of reusing the engine since i had it lying around and was usable enough.
[0] https://bad-sector.itch.io/post-apocalyptic-petra https://bad-sector.itch.io/post-apocalyptic-petra
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxn0Bl9U4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxn0Bl9U4A
[2] https://i.imgur.com/xpEjHJE.png https://i.imgur.com/xpEjHJE.png
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6uij0lFLQw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6uij0lFLQw