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.
Requirenments
- 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 and MiSTer.
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)
Known Issues
If running on 020 hardware, slow downs can occure.
Don`t work on Amiga 500 mini on standard firmware.
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.
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
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:
Comments
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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!
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.