sketchfighter-4000-alpha posts

SketchFighter 4000 Alpha, from Ambrosia Software, is a fiendishly difficult game. It's a top-down shooter in the style of the old vector graphics-based games like Asteroids, Gravitar, and Omega Race. However, the standout element (at least at first) is its graphic style: the game is rendered as though drawn in a grade-school student's tablet of graph paper. This extends not merely to the background (gray grid against plain white), but to the player's ship, the game's enemies, the obstacles, everything. This isn't just a refreshing change of pace -- the retro feel is inherent it the game's actual gameplay as well. How? Read on!