Arsantica Voxel 2k16 by Desire for Atari XL/XE

Small entry for Silly Venture 2k22 WE Demo Competition
Code by Heaven (2016-2022)
Music by Miker
Panel gfx by Alien
This is an old prototype we did for Arsantica 3 but wasn't used in the end in the final demo.

[@CharlesVanNoland]

This would've been so effing rad 40 years ago. Even at 5hz we didn't care about low framerates, because if the thing was interactive it was interactive. In the 90s when we had wolf3d and doom, running at 20fps was fine, because we were actually running around a base on Mars, shooting demons with shotguns, which we'd never been able to do before at ANY framerates.

[@JimHarry]

I was just thinking the same thing. How cool a game that had this in it 40 years ago would have been. Such good memories of new technology and exploration of it back then.

[@jrherita]

I love the tune for this video!

[@Foster_MSX]

Nice code :)

[@Buddy76cd]

with this nice routine, make a new version of: rescue on fractalus... :)

[@Heaven6502]

Good idea!

[@mjp29]

This very well be what it looks like to fly around in hell !

[@troyzilla]

I'd have been okay with fewer pixels to have 24fps instead of 5fps