R5 is the current name of a shoot-em-up I am writing using Visual Basic 6 and Direct X 7. It is the updated version of my final year university project containing enhanced graphics and gameplay and requiring a considerably less powerful computer to run (the original project included about a gigabyte of full motion video).

So what is it? R5 is a multi-directional scrolling shoot-em-up game. The idea is simply to blast everything you see with the biggest guns you can find.

What does it do? R5 is designed to run in a high-colour fullscreen mode at 50 frames per second. The graphics engine uses a multi-layer paralax background combined with 3D accelerated water and nebula effects to create colourful and varied levels and the game includes options for additional lighting effects (if you have a fast machine) and a 25 fps low detail mode (if you have a slow machine).

Retribution 5 Image Gallery
Click here to see a gallery of rendered images from the Incursion: Retribution 5 project (the final project for my BSc at the University of Hertfordshire).

R5 Development Page (progress diary)
Click here for information on the development of R5.

Eternity Engine Preview (images only)
A preview of the Enternity engine which I posted on the Hypeorfictions site.

Video clips of underwater cave level testing (MPEG 4 required)
Clip 1 (406KB)
Clip 2 (213KB)
Clip 3 (338KB)

Download R5 Demos
Playable R5 demo now on the files page (just a bit of space-invaders style shooting, the cave level demo will have to wait until after I finish my Uni work).