Toy Wars
Published: March 2010
Toy Wars is a game that I wrote while at was at Uni. It was first aimed at PSP (also works on Linux and Windows) but was later ported to other platforms such as GameCube and Wii.
It is a game amed at easy porting and therefore uses cross-platform libs such as SDL and can run with as little as 24MB of RAM and a CPU clocked at around 300MHz. It uses the ODE library for realistic physics, a custom game engine that supports stencil shadows, simple custom level scripting and 3D audio effects (with a custom mixer!).
All graphics, 3D models and music are originals and inspired on Toy Commander (the Dreamcast game!).
Awards
Toy Wars has entered in the following contests:
- Scenery Beta 2011→ 1st prize!
- Neo Flash Retro compo 2011→ 7th prize!
- Genesis Competition 2011→ No luck! :( 🎥️ Video
- Nintendomax Wii dev Compo→ 3rd prize! 🎥️ Video
- GBAtemp Homebrew Bounty→ 3rd prize!
- Neo Flash Retro compo 2010→ 2nd prize!
- Scenery Beta 2010→ 1st and 2nd prizes!
Images
I played around with 3D glasses for a bit, using a cheap blue/red glasses: 🖼️ Picture 1 🖼️ Picture 2
Also found a very old video of the game, during early development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsmqHXh6DjA
And another video about the blind Wii development (cause I did not have a Wii so that was my debug info): 🎥️ Video
Downloads
Download Wii version v0.7 (33 MB) Mirror 1 Mirror 2
sha1sum: 80d39c7bbe7a48df47a58afa76c7a7e8ae630732
Download GameCube version v0.7 (29 MB) Mirror 1 Mirror 2 🎥️ Running on Dolphin
sha1sum: f6e084e582afd34ace41f820547b3b258b825366
Download PSP version v0.6 (26 MB) Mirror 1 Mirror 2 🎥️ Video
md5sum: 6e6f49faf80ee0d9d82d95d200259d97
Download Wii version v0.6 (32 MB) Mirror 1 Mirror 2
md5sum: 85725bf81e5f0d1f44c33bffe615a4ca
Download PSP version 0.2 (16 MB) Mirror 1
sha1sum: 1b60504e75203ea7ea58348e341c6c3450ef3ab5
Download Windows (32bit) version 0.2 (45 MB) Mirror 1
sha1sum: eb299e13abb015547cdd131ef60f19d002b3851c
Download Linux (32bit) version 0.2 (45 MB) Mirror 1
sha1sum: 09be4701b74908bccd01564d0e8562ca3ea0b27a
Bonus!
While browsing on my computer I came across some old backups from 2009/10 that show the very early stages of the game. I managed to record a video on the prebuild Linux 32bit executable it shipped: 🎥️ 2009 ToyWars video🎥️ 2010 ToyWars video
Since I managed to get my hands on two prebuilt early PSP releases, here they go, for posterity: Download EBOOTs.
