Go Lucky

Overview for final game features

• board game for ATARI Jaguar
• 1 to 4 human players - if less than 4, CPU players will be there
• new features in the new levels
• maximum dimension of levels is raised
• all new graphics - some of them based on free clip arts from cleanpng.com
• some photos shot by me as level background
• nice music tracks by Buddy
• all 35 A8 levels are included

When will it be available?

A demo is downloadable just now. ROM file for BigPEmu or Jaguar GD is in the zip. You can play first A8 level and first Jaguar level there. But beware - final game might differ a lot - or not :)

Feel free to send any comments or suggestions.

Something about the history of this game

In April 2020 I started to create a game for the annual ABBUC e.V. software contest for the ATARI 8-Bit line of computers. It took me about 4 months to finish a version that was sent to the competition. I had to use a lot of tricks to bring my idea of a board game with up to 4 players to the A8 machines. Finally I earned 7th place in the contest.

Over the years I optimized the game a lot. Graphic engine esp. on NTSC machines was really slow. This was finally fixed. I added another 10 levels during this time, resulting in a total count of 35 different boards to play - every one with different graphics (ok, almost), feel and difficulty to win.

Early in May 2024 I started to push the game to another level. Using the great developement suite JagStudio, I started to create a Jaguar version. Jumping those "few" Bits gave me room to include some other ideas I had in mind for the game.

Instead of 6502 asssembler, this time I use BCX BASIC, that is possible with JagStudio - never had enough time to learn 68k assembler or C. I am sure, I'm not using all of the BASIC features and instead doing something "the harder way", but finally the game runs fine on my Jaguar :)

Why did I choose this genre?

Short and simple answer: Like on A8, there's no other game on the Jaguar like this.

I really like the ideas behind Monopoly and even more Itadaki Street. So it was a must to have this on my beloved ATARIs, too. When you play the game, you will discover some similarities to those two board games, but I think you will discover more differences, too.