Gridrunner

Cloud saves

Game state is automatically saved to the cloud when you are playing. The last 5 saves are stored in the “Latest” group, if you want to find older saves you can open the “Daily saves” for snapshots from each day.

Not signed in

To use cloud saves you need to sign up.Signing up is free and will take just a few minutes to complete. With a GX.games account you can enjoy several additional features, so don’t wait and sign up already today!Sign up

Challenges

No challenges exist for this game.

Share game

Share the game with your friends or on your social networks to have more fun together!

or share with

Controls

Controller

GX Menu

Gridrunner

Hybrid remake of Jeff Minters classic games, Gridrunner & Matrix. V1.02 - Fix 2 potential crash bugs for compatibility with GX.Games build.

Description

Gridrunner is a modern hybrid of Jeff Minters two classic Vic 20 games, Gridrunner and Matrix. I've attempted to keep a similar kind of compact play area that the Vic 20 forced you to have, and thus keep the same playability of both games. The crazy Vic 20 sound effects have been used where possible here as well, which, while not to everyones tastes, suit the frantic gameplay brilliantly. If you played these games as a kid then I hope you'll appreciate me doing them justice here. You can also switch them out for something more subtle on the title screen, if you prefer. This game is a tribute to both the classics that Yak wrote, but I've incorporated some surprises to give the game a bit more life, as the memory available for the originals meant that what you saw when you first started playing was, pretty much, all you got. This game was written for the Syntax Bomb game coding competition 16. The theme was "Back to the 80's" and you could basically do your own game in tribute to anything you played back then, with very loose rules. I will point out that 'm not using any of Jeff's original graphics, apart from a likeness of some of his 8*8 pixel character graphics, and he's already on record as stating that he is happy for people to use anything he did from the 8 bit years however we want anyway. The sound effects are ripped from an audio output via Vice so I could use them directly, instead of trying to replicate something similar. I'm confident he would have no issue with this usage. Controls: F1 - toggle between windows/full screen F10 - toggle colour strobing on/off R - reset high score table M - toggle music on/off S - toggle sounds on/off V - toggle Vic 20 sounds on/off On the title screen you can use cursor keys up and down to select a level. Note that you will not be able to choose a level you haven't already reached playing previously, so you can't just jump to level 20 on your first go. Also, on the title screen, you can use the cursor keys left and right to flick between the displayed high scores, credits and other information. In game you can use the shift keys to fire, and either WASD, or cursor keys for movement. If you prefer to use a gamepad then that's also possible. You can use either X or the right trigger for firing.