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 boards are included + 20 all new boards

When will it be available?

Full game is online now and for free. You can get it by clicking the download button.

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.