This is a basic & minimalistic 2D puzzle game using vita2Dlib by xerpi and my contribution to this contest! The game isn't meant to look pretty with a lot of fancy graphics but further stay in a somewhat "text-based-adventure-way". This release has 54 Levels currently and there also is a level editor for even more fun.

Big thanks to everyone in the scene for making homebrew finally possible and of course special thanks to gdljjrod, Largeroliker, Red Squirrel, Nzaki & Tuxbot for their translations!

Now go and have some fun! (And yes, all levels are winnable!^^)

This project aims to be a space opera focused on dogfights. The way you build your spaceship using different modules
such as engines, canons and so on, will impact the momentum and the whole physics that will make your ship move and react.
Any module will have independant resistance and detroying a module will affect the physics of the ship until you repair it.

Version notes :
- 2017/01/28 : v0.0.1 (pre alpha release for the GekiHen Contest)
This version is more like a sandbox where you can only drive a prebuilt ship in an asteroid field and shoot asteroids.
This includes temporary features such as drag and dropping asteroids with the touchscreen, a debug menu, and wip controls.
- Nearly coded from scratch crossplatform Vita/PC(d3d11) engine using the official sony's SDK.
- Physic engine (native on vita and provided by sony in their SDK)
- Optimized volumetric fog using FBM Perlin noise.
- Procedural asteroids geometry and texture (textures are precomputed for faster loading time) using FBM Perlin noise.
- Single light spot rendering shaders for 3d objects.
- Tweakable controls with 2 presets (from the debug menu).
- Tweakable rendering options (from the debug menu).

Controls:
- Left Stick : 3D strafe right/left/up/down
- Right Stick : ship's orientation
- Left Trigger : acceleration
- Right Trigger : shoot
- Cross : toggle pause+freemove cam/unpause+ship cam
- Triangle : toggle friction/no friction (ie space inertia)
- D-Pad : navigate through the debug menu
- Start : show/hide debug console
- Select : reset the scene
- Front Touchscreen : move any physic object of the scene (drag&drop)

Special thanks :
- To Team Molecule for all their incredible work on the HenKaku
- To TheFlow for the amazing VitaShell
- To SCE for discontinuing the psm and forcing independant programmers to go underground

This game an open source port of the game ‘The Adventures of Robbo’ which was a great hit in Poland in the late 80s and early 90s. It was initially released on the Atari XL/XE computers but thanks this open source implantation, we can enjoy it on various consoles. It’s quite a simple yet fun game in which you have to finish levels with your cool robot. The start screen has instructions on how to play the game too! There are movement and shooting instructions.

##Key mappings

CROSS - confirm / drop block
RIGHT TRIGGER - cancel / exit game

D-PAD - move block / select character (hall of fame)

SQUARE - rotate block around X axis counterclockwise
SQUARE + LEFT TRIGGER - rotate block around X axis clockwise
TRIANGLE - rotate block around Y axis counterclockwise
TRIANGLE + LEFT TRIGGER - rotate block around Y axis clockwise
CIRCLE - rotate block around Z axis counterclockwise
CIRCLE + LEFT TRIGGER - rotate block around Z axis clockwise

START - pause / resume game

##Online score database

The game has a strong user community and an online world ranking of user scores.

https://www.blockout.net/blockout2/worldranking/index.php

https://www.blockout.net/blockout2/scoredate.php

Currently you can play against / compare your score to an online score database, but you cannot upload your scores.

Please look at TODO section, regarding score uploading.

##Credits

Jean-Luc PONS for an awesome game.
Fabrice Bellard for TinyGL, an OpenGL software implementation.
Team Molecule for HENkaku homebrew enabler.
All vitasdk contributors.
xerpi, Cpasjuste for SDL library port.
Cpasjuste for PSP2SHELL, ports of SDL auxiliary libraries and TinyGL.

##TODO

The game has an option to upload user scores to the game server, but that option is only included in binary releases for pc.

Reverse engineering of 'reply file' content and communication protocol is needed in order to upload user scores from PS VITA port of the game.

##Disclaimer

There are some minor graphical issues due to TinyGL limitations.

Enjoy!

* As far as I know

Happy Land is a game where you go on a big quest to retrieve the potatoes that Big Foot stole from you.

Controls
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Move with the dpad
X is select
O is cancel
Press square on the title screen to swap O and X
Press triangle on the title screen to switch to the probably terrible Spanish mode

How to Install
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1. Download the vpk file.
2. Install the vpk file on the Vita using Molecular or Vita shell.

What’s zsokoban?

This game is a port of the classic Japanese game ‘Sokoban” in which you have to move blocks/treasures to a corner to get to the exit. Sokoban was released back in 1981 and it’s found on various J2ME devices. While it may sound easy, it’s quite challenging and could easily trip you up! The Zsokoban port adds a little bit more of a challenege to the game since you only have 3 lives! After you mess up 3 times on a single level, you’ll be sent back to the first level. Keeping that in mind, you must be very careful and you have to think your moves carefully. This homebrew was developed via ONElua which incidentally is another GekiHEN entry!

How to play/install the game?

Getting it on your Vita is quite easy providing you have taiHEN. You simply need to download the VPK from the link below and install it via VitaShell. Make sure you don’t get it from unofficial sources as VPKs can be malicious! Controls are pretty simple and they’re on screen too. Have fun playing homebrew on your Vita!

This update brings about various welcome changes that improve the game experience such as:

Ability to save and load games (thus making it more of a game)
Bug fixes (especially with GPU crashes)

Loading/Saving mechanism
Some shading effects added
1024×1024 textures took place 64×64 textures for walls in order to provide a better look
Menus were reworked
You may now skip engine logos at startup by pressing START

This game is a top down Action Science Fiction RPG. This is an early sample of 1 dungeon, but the full game is planned to be much bigger. The game currently features 4 classes, but I recommend the Human/Marine since he is the most fleshed out character. The goal of the demo is just to explore the dungeon, and kill all of enemies. The demo also features a boss fight. Controls can be viewed and changed in the options screen on the main menu. I hope everyone enjoys the game, and give me feedback on what you would like to see in the game on twitter @Suicidal_Robot.