OpenTyrian
Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. The story is set in 20,031 where you play as Trent Hawkins, a skilled fighter-pilot employed to fight Microsol and save the galaxy. OpenTyrian is a port of…
OpenTyrian is an arcade, released 31 December 2007 on Xbox One, Android and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What OpenTyrian is
OpenTyrian was released in 2007. It was published by Contoso Games. It is available on Xbox One, Android and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. The story is set in 20,031 where you play as Trent Hawkins, a skilled fighter-pilot employed to fight Microsol and save the galaxy. OpenTyrian is a port of the DOS shoot-em-up Tyrian. Jason Emery generously gave the OpenTyrian developers a copy of the Tyrian 2.1 source code, which has since been ported from Turbo Pascal to C. The port uses SDL, making it easily cross-platform.
What it launched against
OpenTyrian launched on 31 December 2007, within three weeks of Unreal Tournament 3 Black, Patapon, Final Fantasy IV and Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. It was a Xbox One launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Unreal Tournament 3 Black, Patapon, Final Fantasy IV, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin.
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