Unveiled at the recent London Show, the latest title from AMCOG Games – their 25th – is Ghost Hunter, and it is now available to purchase from !Store – and the version found there is 1.03, so anyone who purchased at the show is encouraged to upgrade, which they can do for free using the code they will have received at time of purchase.
In the game, you control a fire spirit, summoned by the wizard Orzabal to clear his castle of the ghosts and ghouls that have manifested there while he was away travelling distant lands. The fire spirit requires gold in order to carry out this task, so Orzabal has agreed that it can collect any it finds in the castle – the wizard knows the secret of alchemy, so can always make more!
As you move the fire spirit around, you will find keys that can be used to unlock the doors that block your way, and candles that will replenish your energy – which is lost if you come into contact with the ghouls and other nasties. There are also cages that can be used to trap the nasties – albeit briefly.
Elmination of all the ghosts and ghouls is simple: the light needs to be brought back to the castle – as you guide the fire spirit around, you’ll see the walls around him change from a gloomy shade as their light is restored. Do this to all the walls to complete a section of the castle and move on to the next.
Priced at £14.99, the game includes high quality animation cycles and four directional scrolling, all in a 16 million colour SVGA graphics mode, sound effects courtesy of AMCOG’s RDSP and three original music tracks which feature 1980s analogue synthesizers. The keys are user definable and there is joystick support on RISC OS 5, and the game comes with the full source code – and any updates will be free.
Ghost Hunter is compatible with most modern RISC OS systems – although for Raspberry Pi users a Pi 2 is a recommended minimum.
