Bloodmasters Released!

[LOC Veteran]

Arcade, oldschool multiplayer and bloodshed.That's what the game Bloodmasters is about. Play with friends on your LAN or online and experience this oldschool top-down shooter. The game supports Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture The Flag and Scavenger game modes. The game is completely freeware and without ads, spyware or other unwanted garbage.

Saw this linked on Gamershell yesterday, figured for a 45 meg download I'd give it a shot. Man, what an impressive game. There's about 8 or 9 maps included, none are humongous by any stretch, but they are all "fun" and graphically it's pretty nice as well. All sorts of neat lighting, shadowing effects, etc. I think this game uses an enhanced Darkspaces engine, though I could be wrong. Either way, it looks damn nice and should run on fairly old hardware pretty well I think. There's DM/TDM/CTF and Scavenger game modes as it says ^^ there. Not bad for free eh?

There's a good 10 or more servers up for the game, and eh, maybe 15 people playing it. So I'm posting it here, to get more people to play it. I always like to support freeware gaming devs, and especially when the game isn't "crippled" or garbageware. Give it a shot folks, you can't lose with a free game!

*Update* I just spoke to the game's developer in IRC, the game does not use the Darkspaces engine, it's using a custom built engine he developed.

Bloodmasters Homepage

Edited November 4, 2006 by LOC

[Dotdot]

Man Im so there thanks LOC

[LOC Veteran]

Hope you like it :) Get more people playing it! :D

[fluffy-go-go]

I downloaded this game the day it was released. It's great fun, I definately recommend it.

[Dotdot]

Yeh am bloody loving this. Hopefully with new updates it,ll become bigger and better.

The BIG problem I have is that the movement keys stay the same as your player model moves. I.e if im facing right the W key moves me up (not forward) and if Im facing left the W key moves me up (again not forward).

So thats gonna take some getting used to.

We should try and find or host a wee server for Neowin and play on it :)

[benac]

Looks like fun. Reminds me of the old PS1 game "Project Overkill".

[Gavin001]

:o this could be a great game for me and my mates to play at lectures!

Thanks :D

[Andre]

Does the game support gamepads? I don't see playing this on a keyboard being very fun.

Edited November 5, 2006 by Andre

[Viper_Maniac]

Looks like a fun game. I think I'll download it and try it out.

[Dotdot]

Should be an update this friday that address the movement issues etc. Shame my gfz card has blown tho :(

[CodeImp Public Relations]

Today we released an update to version 1.1 of our new, freeware game Bloodmasters. This update fixes the problems we found in the first version and adds some new features that the community deemed necessary. Now that the game has the support needed for tournaments, we are proud to announce the first tournament has opened for subscriptions! More information is available at the official website, www.bloodmasters.com.

[neoadorable]

hey thanks for the find, this is promising.

[Dotdot]

Cheers code Imp and thanks for implementing the new movement :)

Now if only i could get it to run on a gf4 :s me wonders if this game uses shader models?

[xxdesmus]

Looks fun, I'll give it a try, thanks ;)

[Veedems Veteran]

Does the game support gamepads? I don't see playing this on a keyboard being very fun.

That's what I would like to know.

[sin-ergy]

Downloading :)

[Veedems Veteran]

for those wondering, I tried it and it doesn't support a joystick/gamepad.

[PrimoTurbo]

Never heard of it I'll give it a try thanks :)

[neoadorable]

too bad there's no single player mode. with no one online it's hard enjoying it.

[Dotdot]

Just a quick tip

IF you go to

:/program files/bloodmasters/music

then copy in an mp3 of your choice and re-name it to one of the existing file names you can have custom music play :)

[N-Chip]

This game is ace! It doesn't even get boring! Just Old-School battles against online players, it's a shame there isn't many lyaers online but it's good that the devs implemented the new movement system

[Jase]

wow, this game looks so fun :D

[Mutal1sk]

hey umm im runnig a pos with a geforce 4 mx 440 or whatever.

any chance it will run :s i read the system requirements and i optimize the system fairly well...