OpenTyrian – Top-Down-Shooter Tyrian Ported for the Web

This game was (and still is) flippin' fantastic! The single player mode was great, the two players mode was amazing, the music was banging.

If you never played it, I highly recommend you give it a try!

Original repo: https://github.com/opentyrian/opentyrian

My fork: https://github.com/midzer/opentyrian/tree/emscripten

Tyrian's what gave me inspiration to create a space shooter on mobile! Some of the special weapons in my game are direct inspiration like the Plasma Storm and Soul of Zinglon. Granted my space shooter game isn't a scrolling space shooter though, someday I will try my shot at making one.

Also, it looks like they've ported other older games to web: https://midzer.de/games like Jazz Jackrabbit, Duke Nukem, Quake. Very nice!

This reminds me of a top-down vertical scroller I played the hell out of during that era, "Raptor: Call of the Shadows" ...

so much so I thought it must have been a re-skin from the same studio, or somehow related, but... it seems not? Amazingly similar motion and gameplay.