Formido
Formido is one of those games, where you are loaded with some guns and you go shooting different things. ‘Things’ in this case are big, ugly, – not green though – alien insects. The idea is to kill as many of those bastards as possible. Eventually they will overcome you, but struggle as long as you can. There are some power-ups to aid you in your honorable quest. Keep in mind, that those critters are rather tough and generally do nasty things when in close range of any player-characters.
Formido is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Read the included documentation for details.
Downloads
Windows
Download Formido (9.2 MB, Windows installer)
Download Formido source code (73 KB)
Linux
Download Formido (8.9 MB, source code + data)
Download Formido source code (96 KB)
Other platforms
MacOS X:
Download Formido (5.1 MB, bundle, ported by Noé Falzon)
Download Formido source code (96 KB)
Download Formido music files (5.9 MB)
AmigaOS:
Download Formido (3.6 MB, ported by Costel Mincea)
OS/2:
Download Formido (3.6 MB, ported by Doodle)
BeOS: Download from BeBits
To compile the sources you’ll need SDL, SDL_image et SDL_mixer. See http://www.libsdl.org.
Screenshots
Formido new versions coming?
HOw about more walking area and or
3-D ? with radar-map to corner of screen
The game looks very nice at first sight, but I’m sorry to say it must have been designed for masochists. I can barely survive for a few first seconds: it’s very difficult to move the character, as the directions are HIS directions and not screen directions, so that UP means the way he’s facing and not the top of the screen, which is very difficult as you have to act fast and keep track of which way he’s facing. It’s not dungeon crawling, where you have time to figure out what angle the character is currently turned. What’s worse, it’s hard to predict the direction in which he’ll be shooting, it’s not exactly the direction he’s facing. I wonder if anyone has ever beaten a level, or at least survived for a minute or so… It’s a torture, and could have been a nice game…
It is a bit quirky game, granted.
I really love that game. Im very good at it, because I played it a lot when I was a kid. Yes, this is kind of a remake of an original Win98 game, that I played so much: PHOBIA II.
Indeed it is inspired by Phobia II, as it says in the README (alas, which nobody reads)..