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Shadowgrounds Survivor

🗃️ Specifications

📰 Title: Shadowgrounds Survivor 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: Game
🗃️ Genre: Adventure & Action 🚦 Status: 04. Released (status)
🏷️ Category: Adventure & Action ➤ TPS ➤ Fantasy & Sci-fi ➤ Alien Breed 🌍️ Browser version:
🔖 Tags: Run and Gun; Top-Down Shooter; TPS; Action; Shooter; Adventure; Exploration; Run and Gun; Aliens; Blood; Sci-fi; Horror; Survival Horror; Atmospheric; Physics; Retro; Keyboard; Mouse; Controller 📦️ Package Name:
🐣️ Approx. start: 2007-11-14 📦️ Arch package:
🐓️ Latest: 2017-11-01 📦️ RPM package:
📍️ Version: Latest: (see Shadowgrounds, same engine) 📦️ Deb package:
🏛️ License type: 💰 Commercial 📦️ Flatpak package:
🏛️ License: Code: Free / Artwork: Commercial 📦️ AppImage package:
🏝️ Perspective: Bird's-eye view 📦️ Snap package:
👁️ Visual: 3D Top-Down ⚙️ Generic binary:
⏱️ Pacing: Real Time 📄️ Source: ✓
👫️ Played: Single 📱️ PDA support:
🎖️ This record: 5 stars 🕳️ Not used:
🎀️ Game design: 👫️ Contrib.: goupildb & Louis
🎰️ ID: 12783 🐛️ Created: 2010-08-20
🐜️ Updated: 2022-05-22

📖️ Summary

[en]: The enhanced sequel to Shadowgrounds, a solo top-down futuristic action game (no multiplayer for the Linux version), in a destructible and oppressive environment, telling the story of 3 survivors joining forces in an ultimate human resistance against the alien invasion. This opus brings new characters, a new "Survival" mode, graphic improvements, a physics engine and new gameplay elements (devastating Mecha, napalm attacks, ...). [fr]: La suite améliorée de Shadowgrounds, un jeu d'action futuriste en solo (pas de multi pour la version Linux) et en vue du dessus, dans un environnement destructible et une ambiance oppressante, racontant l'histoire de 3 survivants joignant leur force dans une ultime résistance humaine contre l'invasion extraterrestre. Cet opus apporte de nouveaux personnages, un nouveau mode "Survival", des améliorations graphiques, un moteur physique et de nouveaux éléments de gameplay (Mecha dévastateur, attaques au napalm, …).

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🍩️ Resources
(empty, license): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ g(202xxx)

🛠️ Technical informations
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🦣️ Social
Devs (Frozenbyte [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2] [Forums] [mastodon] [Facebook] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2]
Devs (Alternative Games [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2] [Chat] [mastodon] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2(202xxx)]
The Project: [Blog] [Chat] [Forums] [mastodon] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [reddit] [Discord] [PressKit] [reddit] [Discord]

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[Wikipedia (Shadowgrounds Survivor) [fr] [en][de]]
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📕 Description [en]

📕🐧"The enhanced sequel to Shadowgrounds, a solo top-down futuristic action game"🐧📕.

Shadowgrounds Survivor is a spin-off/sequel to the underground PC hit Shadowgrounds. It is a third-person/top-down action game where the player takes control of three characters and faces monstrous alien invaders.

Shadowgrounds Survivor tells the story of three survivors who join forces with the last remaining human resistance in the heated battle against the ongoing alien onslaught. The acclaimed atmosphere and gameplay mechanics of the original Shadowgrounds make a triumphant return armed with a new feature set!

• 3 playable characters, each with impressive new tactics
• RPG-like upgrade system for weapons and characters; including special attacks such as the all-engrossing Napalm Flame and the mighty Brute Slayer.
• New gameplay features such as the Sentry Turret and the powerful Mech!
• Campaign mode short of filler and full of action, running parallel to the Shadowgrounds story and expanding it to new locations, including snow and ice environments, gritty sewers and the suffering New Atlantis colony
• Survival mode where the player is pitted against hordes of alien monsters - the clock is ticking and they just keep on coming!
• New graphics enhancements, including raging snowstorm effects, new weapon effects and much more!
• Integrated physics that bring the world alive with hundreds of physics objects, taking the destruction to the next level
• New original soundtrack composed by praised Shadowgrounds composer Ari Pulkkinen
• On-disc Editor tools, sample missions and modding Wiki for easy modding; take part in the Shadowgrounds mod community and create mods for the Campaign or the Survival mode - or just enjoy the results of others!


🌍️ Wikipedia:

Shadowgrounds: Survivor is a top-down shooter game developed by Frozenbyte; as the sequel to Shadowgrounds. It features three new playable characters, a new "Survival" mode, graphics enhanced from its predecessor, and an integrated physics engine.

Gameplay

Like Shadowgrounds, the game is a fast-paced top-down shooter. This time however, the game allows for three playable characters which can utilise an RPG-like upgrade system for both their weapons and character attributes. This is in contrast to the original game, where only weapon upgrades were handled in this manner. Most of the weapons from the previous game also make a return in Survivor, although many function slightly different and some new weapons have been added. In addition, in some levels the player can control Sentry guns and a Mech.

Compared to the previous game, the basic gameplay has also been tightened, with Survivor focusing more on gun-play than on side-quests. No PDA or computer screens are available for the player to read, and most missions simply require the player to "survive" and reach the ending rather than completing any specific tasks. Those that do usually feature critical plot points, though most of the games story comes in the form of level loading screen text read by each main character.

Also new to the game is the addition of the "Survival" mode. Instead of trying to complete specific missions or tasks, a player selects which character they wish to be and a map, based on some of the ones in the single player campaign, and battles aliens until their health runs out. The more kills you accomplish and the longer you survive affects your final score, which is kept in a score table. The goal is to beat yours and other's previous scores. "Survival" missions become available upon completing their counterpart levels in the single-player campaign.

Plot

Shadowgrounds: Survivor tells the story of three survivors who join forces with the last remaining human resistance in the heated battle against the ongoing alien onslaught. These are, in order of introduction, Luke "Marine" Giffords (voiced by Noah Lee Margetts) who is a soldier, Bruno "Nalpam" Lastmann (voiced by Andrew Wincott) who works in pest control, and Isabel "Sniper" Larose (voiced by Laurence Bouvard) who is a scout. The game begins with Luke fighting his way back to the colony of New Atlantis, were he hopes he can find other survivors of the initial alien attack. While doing so, he receives a message from MacTiernan (voiced by Jay Simon), who is in charge of the defence of the colony. He asks all survivors to come and rescue him, so that he can find a way to fight back.

Meanwhile, Bruno is waging his own battle for survival, and trying to find his own path back to New Atlantis. Luke eventually finds MacTiernan and, with him in toe, commandeers a small ship which they hope to take back to the colony. However, the ship fails and crashes far from New Atlantis, forcing Luke to find his own way back on foot with the goal of finding help. MacTiernan, however, remains stuck inside the stricken vessel, but manages to get its communication system working again. From there, he continues to message Luke and the other survivors. By this point, Isabel, who was manning a guard post far outside of the colony, is trying to find her own way back.

A massive alien army, much larger than anything that has come before it, is approaching and Isabel is intent to warn New Atlantis before it is too late. She also comes into contact with MacTiernan, and following his instructions discovers some critical data while on her way back to the colony. She also takes control of an experimental Mech, which she uses to blast her way back to New Atlantis, where she is united with MacTiernan, Bruno, and Luke. From there, MacTiernan devises a plan to save the colony by utilizing its massive array of defence turrets. However, they lack the man power to operate them all manually, so the automated AI code that was previously retrieved by Isabel must be fed into them for this plan to work.

Unfortunately, the only place that this can be accomplished is the Defence Mainframe, which is already swarming with aliens. One of the survivors must fight his or her way to the mainframe with the use of the Mech, and feed in the data. The player gets to choose between Luke, Bruno and Isabel, as one of them completes the final mission, activating the turrets and defeating the forces of the advancing alien army.

Release

Frozenbyte announced a port of the game to Linux on March 13, 2008. The finished port, which was made by IGIOS and published by Linux Game Publishing, was released on September 18, 2009.

It was later released for a limited amount of time as part of a Humble Indie Bundle package. Towards the end of the bundle initiative, the Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor source code (but not their graphics or level editor) was publicly released. The source-code license prohibits commercial use and permits Frozenbyte to change the license terms at will.

📕 Description [fr]

Un jeu d'action futuriste dans lequel le joueur incarne différents personnages luttant contre des aliens, par le studio Frozenbyte, portage Linux par le studio Alternative Games.

Shadowgrounds Survivor est la suite améliorée de Shadowgrounds, un jeu d'action futuriste en solo (pas de multi pour la version Linux) et en vue du dessus, dans un environnement destructible et une ambiance oppressante, racontant l'histoire de 3 survivants joignant leur force dans une ultime résistance humaine contre l'invasion extraterrestre. Cet opus apporte de nouveaux personnages, un nouveau mode "Survival", des améliorations graphiques, un moteur physique et de nouveaux éléments de gameplay (Mecha dévastateur, attaques au napalm, …).


Shadowgrounds Survivor est la suite de Shadowgrounds. Il s'agit d'un jeu d'action à la troisième personne où le joueur prend le contrôle de trois personnages et fait face à de monstrueux envahisseurs extraterrestres.

Shadowgrounds Survivor raconte l'histoire de trois survivants qui joignent leurs forces à celles de la dernière résistance humaine dans la lutte acharnée contre l'assaut des extraterrestres. L'atmosphère et la mécanique de jeu acclamées de l'original Shadowgrounds font un retour triomphal armé d'un nouveau jeu de caractéristiques !

• 3 personnages jouables, chacun avec de nouvelles tactiques impressionnantes
• Système de mise à jour des armes et des personnages, semblable à celui des RPG, incluant des attaques spéciales comme la Flamme au napalm et la puissante Brute pourfendeuse.
• De nouvelles caractéristiques de jeu telles que la tourelle sentinelle et le puissant Mech !
• Le mode campagne, sans remplissage mais plein d'action, dont le scénario est parallèle à celui de Shadowgrounds et qui l'étend à de nouveaux lieux, notamment des environnements de neige et de glace, des égouts de gravier et la colonie souffrante de la Nouvelle Atlantide.
• Mode survie où le joueur est confronté à des hordes de monstres extraterrestres - l'horloge tourne et ils ne cessent de venir !
• De nouvelles améliorations graphiques, notamment des effets de tempête de neige, de nouveaux effets d'armes et bien plus encore !
• Une physique intégrée qui donne vie au monde avec des centaines d'objets physiques, faisant passer la destruction au niveau supérieur
• Nouvelle bande-son originale composée par Ari Pulkkinen, compositeur de Shadowgrounds
• Outils d'édition sur disque, exemples de missions et Wiki de modding pour faciliter le modding ; participez à la communauté de mod Shadowgrounds et créez des mods pour la campagne ou le mode Survival - ou profitez simplement des résultats des autres !



🌍️ Wikipedia:

Shadowgrounds Survivor est un jeu vidéo de type shoot 'em up en vue de dessus développé par Frozenbyte, sorti à partir de novembre 2007 sur Windows, Linux et OS X.

Il s'agit de la suite de Shadowgrounds sorti en 2005. Il raconte l'histoire des derniers humains survivants sur la lune Ganymède, qui avait été attaquée par des extraterrestres.

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💡️ Commentaires généraux:
• Ce jeu avait intégré l'offre Humble Bundle (offre commerciale promotionnelle d'un ensemble de jeux vendus à un prix laissé libre).
• Suite au succès commercial du pack Humble Indie Bundle, le studio Frozenbyte a rendu publique (mais non libre) son code source (voir le lien "Dev site").