Space RPG SECTOR 88 released

The speed Kai releases games is stunning. Never ending kudos for that. It's great to have guys like him around.
Personally I'm just not a big fan of the graphics. They seem not to be pixeled on an MSX. That, and the fact that I'm not a gamer, would keep me from purchasing it.
But other than that, keep them coming... You're doing the scene loads of favors all the time.

Thank you Sander
As I stated when I first presented the project, it was an experimental game using pre-rendered 3d graphics on PC and carefully converted to msx, to see how it looked and people's reactions.
Anyway as you can see in the video, other stages have been pixel made (not pre-rendered) so there is variety.
Indeed, it looks MUCH better on a CRT monitor (it looks like something else completelly, msx is not meant to be seen on lcd)
Most ASM coders use PC/MAC to program their msx games and create the maps, etc. I used a real msx for coding,mapping and musics. I only used the PC for the first step of the graphics, but I understand not everyone likes the same things.
So far, many people are loving it. People keep asking me if it requieres gfx9000
I am happy with the result.

I know, Meits, no offense taken! I just wanted to explain myself

Thanks!

Rip off? it is a homage game to Area 88 original japanese series, as I have been telling everyone and they did not even knew the existance of this series.
The idea is the same and the name (88) is the same, since I am a huge fan of that manga, so I oviously I am not trying to hide anything. I could easily have chosen ANY other name and avoid the OVIOUS references in the storyline, which does not take any extra effort to do so.
I always wanted to make a game based on Area 88 (not like the arcade game or the snes game) but more oriented to the original manga hambient (mercenaries fighting for money, freedom to choose). I even managed to make some characters in that late 70's manga style to give it a more close "look", when my natural style is late 80's.
Since I oviously do not have the rights, I did the closest thing possible without violating any copyrights.

I hope you can see this is not a "rip off" attempt but a homage, since it took me much effort to recreate the manga hambient and it would have been way easier for me not to do it.

Nice game Kai,
Which tools did you use on the real msx, when you made this game.

Hi Keoma728

I used a real turbo-R gt with megaflashrom sd.
We use moonblaster fm editor and moonblaster wave editor for the musics
I designed the hardware sprites with Pixel 3 (a sprite editor by T&e soft made in basic).
I used a map/level editor I created 23 years ago for the game "no name" and i have been using that same editor (with minor variations) for all our games ever since.
I coded the game with the turbo-R basic interpreter and I used turbo basic 2.3 (I belive it is 2.3 but I am not sure) as a compiler.
Exept for the graphics, we did everything with a real msx.
I did the graphics on a PC and I retouched them with graphsaurus 2 on msx, but this is optional:
for Lilo, No name and Nuts I only used graphsaurus 2 to do all the graphics in a msx. Now I use a PC because it is faster.

Yay! Another Kai game! :-)

Hello Kai, I sent you a mail asking where to send the money to since I would like to order Sector88. Since you did not answer, I hereby politely ask the same question...
Kind regards, Elmar

Hello Kai,
thank you, just contacted you via facebook.
Kind regards,
Elmar