Sky Shapers
A downloadable game
Sky Shapers in an engaging and challenging 50 FPS vertical scrolling SHMUP for AGA Amiga computers from the new Norwegian developers Digilicious Nibbles, with lots of charm due to its distinctive hand crafted graphics. Featuring 3 unique levels and 37 enemy types, compelling boss fights, weapon upgrades and special weapons, high quality sound and two layers of parallax scrolling. The game includes a comprehensive introduction sequence, bonus point screen, and a persistent high score table. The game scored a favorable 88% in december edition of Amiga Addict, where James Walker wrote: "Whether you’re here for the laser-zapping, minigun spinning chaos or just want to experience some nostalgic arcade shooter vibes, Sky Shapers is (literally) a blast from start to finish."
Reviews:
"Sky Shapers delivers an engaging and challenging shooter experience with plenty of charm."
"The satisfying main weapon, smart power-up system and unique setting make it stand out from the crowd."
"Sky Shapers is clearly a true labour of love from its developers."
James Walker (Amiga Addict #34 x-mas issue 2024)
"One thing I particularly like is the neat animations of the sprites." "What`s more, an astonishing number of them fit the screen at the same time." "So, I am happy to give SkyShapers a warm recommendation."
Jan-Ove Lorenzen (Amiga Future #171)
Story
A mission to Mars brought a deadly virus to Earth that infected and killed all insects. Pollination robots code named Sky Shapers were built to avert a global food supply disaster. But the virus rapidly evolved and soon turned the Sky Shapers against the humans. A scientist invented a poison that neutralizes the virus. Eventually, lack of food made him too weak to stop the virus. Before he died he managed to prepare his pet hawk Tycho for an epic battle to save Earth from going extinct like Mars did. Now the only living creature on Earth is this pet hawk. You are this hawk! Your mission is to locate the last remaining seed vault and release the seeds. Can you stop the virus before it is too late?
Game features
- Made on original Amiga hardware. (Blitz Basic 2.1 and Deluxe Paint V)
- 9 waves and 3 massive levels.
- 6 mid level bosses.
- 3 end of level boss fights.
- Full 50 frames per second action.
- 37 unique enemies.
- 8 different Power ups.
- Highscores saved to disk.
- 109 colors on screen.
- Up to 10 sprites on screen (interleaved).
- 45 minutes of play time from start to finish.
Requirements
- AGA only
- Requires kickstart 3.0 or higher
- 2MB Chip RAM + 1MB Fast RAM (minimum 1877 KB of free CHIP memory)
- Hard drive only.
- Min. 020 14 MHz CPU (030 25 Mhz recommended).
Compatibility
A1200, A4000, Win-UAE, FS-UAE, MiSTer and A500 Mini on standard firmware.
Supports two button joysticks, and keyboard controls.
People have reported in that the game works on the following platforms:
- Amiberry: Hdf works great.
- Pistorm32 lite: works fine but has several glitches scattered around the screen
- A500 Mini using custom firmware AGS 2.7
- Retrobat (PUAE core)
- Retroarch (PUAE core)
- Steam Deck running EmuDeck (PUAE core)
Known Issues
If running on 020 hardware, slow downs can occurre.
Installation
Running from hard drive on real hardware
Extract the LHA archive, and run the HDinstall to install the game to hard drive. Run the game by double clicking the Sky Shapers icon.
Emulator
For emulators you have to use the SkyShapers_v1.0.hdf file. The lha file is not a "ROM" file as in a WHDload install in a lha archive.
MiSTer
Select a original 3.1 kickstart (not AROS) CPU: 68020, D-Cache ON, Chipset: AGA, ChipRAM: 2MB, FastRAM: 2MB or higher, SlowRam: None and then under drives select for the Pri.Master SkyShapers_v1.0.hdf file.
A500 Mini on standard firmware
Download the WHDload zip archive for the A500 mini, and extract into your games folder on your usb drive. The archive contains two files, make sure both files resides in the same directory.
WHDload version
There is also a WHDload version in lha format to be used on real hardware, or compatible emulators. To load and run it quickly you need 16MB of Fast RAM
Physical Big Box Edition
Big Box edition of Sky Shapers. Order at Amigashop.org
The Big Box also include a free digital download, CD and sleeve with game, 28 page user manual and an A3 poster.
Credits
Programming: André Bergei (Ninsei)
Graphics: Rune Wolden Skattum (Mr. Possible)
SFX: Ninsei and Mr. Possible.
Music: Ninsei
Big Box: Mr. Possible
We hope you like this game and continue to support our future projects.
YouTube
www.youtube.com/@digiliciousnibbles
Web
www.digiliciousnibbles.net
WHDLoad version
WHDLoad version adapted by Amiga Vault Team
FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/AMIGAVAULT
FB Group: https://facebook.com/groups/amigavaultproject
Pricing:
To clarify, we set the price to minimum $1, with a recommended price of 3.99, but feel free to pay whatever you feel it's worth over the minimum price.
Digilicious Nibbles 2025
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $1 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- WHDload version added15 days ago
Comments
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Thank you so much for this great new shmup <3
Hope you're getting satisfying sales and feedback !
Thank you so much!! :-) So happy you liked our game! <3
Hi all,
With thanks to the Digilicious Nibbles team for accepting our offer of collaboration and giving us credits here on itch.io, here are some pictures of how our WHDload version of Sky Shapers looks like on AmigaOS (HiRes/LoRes):
Only Amiga Vault makes it possible! ^_^
PS: Don't forget to purchase the game, it really deserves!!! ;)
Hi Digilicious Nibbles and Ninsei,
Great game indeed, we will definitely purchase it because it is really worth it: congratulations! :)
Our Amiga Vault team is specialized in creating/converting Amiga games and programs in standard WHDLoad format with specific slave, custom splash screen, hybrid icon (OldIcon+NewIcon+ColorIcon) compatible with all AmigaOS, and also a readme file included.
As we have done with some Amiga games released in recent months (Ami-H.E.R.O, Ami Robbo 2, Frank Brush, Ghosts 'n Goblins AGA, Hop To The Top, International Kopycat Plus, Kondi Krush, Metro Siege, Neon World, Pjusk, Soko-Ban, Spheroid, Trapped In The Tomb and Yoomp!) and as we will do for some games currently in development as soon as they are ready (Hyper Wings 2.21 HD, Soltys and Street Fighter), we'd love to convert your game to WHDLoad format and share it with you so that if you wish, you can include it as an add-on version for the benefit of Amiga users who purchase this amazing game.
The advantages of having WHDLoad version as a download option would be numerous: portability of the game to any AmigaOS with WHDLoad installed without need to install it, compatibility with native firmware on 500 Mini without need to rely on third-party setups such as AGS, Aminimiga and Pandory, full compatibility with Hyperspin, CoinOps, LaunchBox, Batocera and frontends that natively support the WHDLoad format (practically all).
Obviously, this is implied but anyway we would like to clarify it, since it is a commercial game if you accept our offer of collaboration we will provide our WHDload version ONLY and EXCLUSIVELY to you who are the developer, and if someone else wants it they should still purchase your game because the only available download of our WHDLoad would be only on your official page of the game on itch.io: What do you think about our proposal? It would be an honor and a pleasure for us to collaborate with you, if you like our idea you can contact us on facebook (Amiga Vault user) or by email if you prefer (amigavault.contribution@gmail.com) in order to define all the details.
Best regards
Amiga Vault Team
Nice game!
Thank you for nice review:-)
Very nice shooter with cool parallax scrolling. The graphics could perhaps be a bit more modern. Our German-language review can be found in our recorded livestream starting at 01:37:12. English subtitles are also available. Subscription to our YouTube and Twitch channel is welcome. 🙂
Nice! Thank you for doing a review and for nice comment. We really appreciate that! We wanted to make a shooter with classic 90’s vibe and graphical environment.
I can verify compatibility with the A500 Mini using AGS 2.7 as well for all you Mini owners out there! Game is great fun
Thank you for the report, and for supporting Sky Shapers!! Great news that the game runs on A500 mini with custom firmware! I love the setup you got there :)
Also made sure it worked on the MiSTer FPGA. You got yourselves a great SHMUP here and I love it!
Thanks for sharing , bought it now since you confirmed it working on th A500mini. I will revert for advice if I run into problems.
SWEET! Glad I could help!
Hi bought the game since you shared that i works on the A500mini. Can you explain how ?
I couldnt get it working. I have AGS 2.7
Hi.
This is the instruction I got from CoffeeCupArcade.
What you will need - A500 Mini, AGS 2.7 installed onto a USB card, LHA version of game.
Step 1 - Install AGS 2.7
Step 2 - Unzip the .LHA version of the game and take that extracted folder and place it in the AGS 2.7 "Shared" folder.
Step 3 - boot up AGS 2.7 and hit escape on the keyboard to drop into Workbench.
Step 4 - open up the "Shared" folder and launch the game per normal.
Hope this helps!
HI , I understand and will give it a Go Thanks.
Thanks , It works a Good game.
Nice game,
but this questionable practice to get more money will be reported in my review. Kind regards,
Hi. Thank you for posting. We are new to this platform. The intension was a price at 3.99 with the possibility to pay less. Technically itch seems to turn this upside down. Everyone must feel free to pay what they think it is worth:-) We are happy either way:-)
We have added an explanation for our pricing on the shop page to clarify the intention on the pricing.
Nice thing but why no CD32 version? Then you could have included music from CD.
Hi, there is no CD32 version because of the FAST RAM requirements. However, if you have a expansion like the SX series or the TerribleFire 330 the game should in theory work from a hard drive.
I really like the graphics, got that oldschool Amiga feel to it
Thank you for downloading and thanks for nice comment:-)
I could not start this game due to lack of space on my chip ram even if I select "Boot without startup sequence" from early staryup.
Do you have any ideas?
With the accelerator card, it is likely that the chip ram may be just a little bit short.
hi, thanks for downloading. Maybe you have a large number of buffers on the hard drive partitions? what do you get when you boot with no startup-sequence and run "avail chip" and how many partitions do you have? you can try to reduce buffes on you partitions with "addbuffers dh0: -999" and repeat on all partitions, or disable the partitions not in use in the early startup menu. You have to run the addbuffers command for every reboot as it is not persistent.
Thank you for replying.
I see. I will try.