Introduce yourself

[atari26003]

hey guys IM Matty

im 17 i live in Ontario Canada,
I wish tyrian was more popular such a great game i really want to know why it wasn't a hit


It would have been great on the SNES or something

W00t

[hikaizer]

Hail I bring new flesh a member to your forums.

Although I never owned a full copy of the game, a friend did and I loved it so when I found this place and your open source version of the game it tickled my fancy.

Since it works so well I decided to join.

Also congratulations on still being active.

[indiket]

Hi!
I have registered into the forums, because I have recently done a port of OpenTyrian into the Dreamcast, and also I want to improve it
Congratz for your project, I love Tyrian ^^.

[Jason Emery]

Hah. Ah, suppose I should introduce myself rather than making mysterious posts answering technical questions, eh?

This is Jason Emery, coder and main designer on Tyrian. At least, uh, the original one. You know, the one I did 15 or so years ago in high school.

Thanks for loving it so much!

Unless of course you prefer playing Destruct...! Haha.

Always meant to do something of a sequel for it, but all those crazy deals had me working on various versions of it that didn't get released or really didn't improve on the game a whole lot. I kind of wonder what I'd do with it today. Probably some port to the DS if I had my way. Well, gotta eat, ya know?

[bb1]

Any sequel of Tyrian in today's world would be an EXCELLENT idea. Revisiting the idea with improved graphics, non-linear stories, dimension flipping (that is changing perspective in some areas) multiple scrolling directions, randomized enemy in some cases...the list can go on and on. I'd buy a copy. It is a shame Epic doesn't give a hoot about the little guy anymore.

[Jason Emery]

Well, there's two assumptions there.

One is that Epic is not making barrels of money off of Unreal, which is actually a really good job that they're doing. I used to work more directly with Tim and he had some quite visionary ideas.

The other is that Tyrian was more of a niche product by comparison and is why I have the rights to it now. So if you want to blame anyone you can blame me, though for several years there I tried to make a handheld sequel (by myself, mostly) with a company that ultimately went under around when the 9/11 thing occurred. There was the oddball 2000 version, of course, but that didn't expand on it too heavily.

I know more or less what I would do with it. Heck, even now sometimes I wake up and realize I was dreaming a Tyrian design. Part of the fun, after all, is not knowing what the surprise is. At least I always believed that. But I've been working hard for another company doing other games (if you check MobyGames) and trying to work on that sloppy coding of mine.

Suppose reality is always a bit stranger and a bit more normal than we expect. Hehe.

[bb1]

You haven't TOLD us what the game is at all

Sometimes I wake up dreaming a Tyrian design. Or a raccoon meowing like a cat. What is this game that is so secret?

[darkstar2040]

hi guys new to the forums. havent played tyrian in years and ever since i got a good grade download thanks to your site and tips ive loved every second. just in the process of updates and patches

great work guys

[windir]

@ bb1:

The thing about Tyrian, or any other game that you like, is a feeling. A lot of feelings made me dream, and tyrian influence them as much as Final Fantasy VII of Guimo or the latest Amon Amarth album. Everybody should respect a lot these kind of dreams if they want to use their imagination to create new universe that shall create new dreams.

[bb1]

Kind of like Battlezone by Activision...not a TOTALLY new era, but the concept was 10 years ahead of its time.

[puck]

Hello everyone, I’m Puck, I’m 20 years old and Tyrian was one of my favourite games when I was a child, since my big brother found about it and installed it on his computer. I discovered v2.0 recently and started to play it again. I am somewhat surprised to find a forum dedicated to this game, but what can’t you find ont the internet after all. It might feel surprising considered the reducted amount of people who must be playing this game, but I was born and live in France. Yeah. A Tyrian player from Europe.

[bb1]

Thus Tyrian goes international.

[SM]

Don't forget the mexican guy, me

[mackazz]

Another European Tyrian player here.
I'm Ron 21 years of age. As Puck I started playing tyrian as a game...Its so addicting, I still play the game xD

I remember redoing the game over and over, and still finding more and more secrets everything you play the game.

I eventually found out about all secrets, and then ...2.0!

RESTART

[zardoz]

And another European Tyrian player

I play a lot of time which shareware version of Tyriant (Episode 1 ... I play a lot of times !!!!), and I just played the full game two years ago, when finally I manage to get Tyriant 2000. And now I discover openTyrian .... WOW !!