Refraction for the Atari 2600 Atari Awards 2018 Nominee

Player 1Player 2
QWUI
A·DJ·L
SK

Now playing version "R05a-2018-04-20". — Click here for the most current version.

Instructions

“Refraction” is a simple two players game with a twist.

Move the joystick up/down to move a ship, press the button to fire.
A missile's trajectory will be “refracted”, when passing through the barrier at the opposing side. Missiles will bounce inside the opponent's field until they expire after a certain period of time.
Push joystick sideways towards the opponent while a missile is passing the barrier to increase the refraction angle, pull it in order to invert the refraction angle and play it à la bande.
Avoid the floating “bouncer”.

Developer's Note: The game is intended to be played with joysticks (not D-pads).

Press Select (F11) or any controller buttons to start the game.
Press Reset (F12) to return to the title screen.
The Color/BW switch (F1) selects shapes of player sprites.

About

The game has been written in 6502 assembler code and was develped in the course of April 2018 as part of RetroChallenge 2018/04. — See the project blog for details.

Project State (as of 2018-04-30)

Feature complete, Public Beta 1.

Please mind that sounds are probably slightly off in the online-emulation.

Downloads

Atari 2600 game ROM image files (4K):

This web pages uses an embedded version of the Javatari emulator by Paolo A. Peccin to run a preview of the NTSC version of “Refraction”.

Norbert Landsteiner, www.masswerk.at,
April 2018.