Agony (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Art & Magic |
| Publisher(s) | Psygnosis |
| Platform(s) | Amiga |
| Release date(s) | 1992 |
| Genre(s) | Shoot 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | Not rated |
Agony is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up game, released by Psygnosis in 1992 for the Amiga platform.
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[edit] Plot
Featuring an end of the world theme, the protagonist transforms into an owl and fights his way through a world filled with demons.
[edit] Technology
The game makes great use of many Amiga features such as scales of colors done with raster lines, HalfBright graphics mode, three level scrolling, in-game palette swapping and continuous flashing of the background colorscale. Featuring three floppies, the game ran on all Amiga computers.
[edit] Music
Tim Wright's title song was adapted without giving him proper credit by the black metal group Dimmu Borgir in the song "Sorgens Kammer" for their Stormblåst album.[1] In a nod to the creator the band did not include the track on a later re-recording of Stormblåst.[2]
The title song is also slightly different from the version that Tim Wright submitted, without his knowledge Franck Sauer changed the piano sounds. Unfortunately one of them was at the wrong octave; this mistake was also covered by Dimmu Borgir.[3]
[edit] Development Team
- Artwork: Frank Sauer, Marc Albinet
- Programming: Yves Grolet
- In-game Music: Jeroen Tel
- Producer: Steven Riding
- Intro Music: Tim Wright, Martin Wall
- Intro Coding: Thomas Landspurg
- Ending Music: Robert Ling, Martin Wall
- Loadingscreen Music: Robert Ling, Martin Wall, Matthew Simons, Martin Iveson, Allister Brimble
- Flashback Compressor: Laurent Larminier
- Disk Loader: Mickael Janssens
- QA: Greg Duddle, Chris Stanley, Nick Burcombe
- Cover Art & Logo Design: Tony Roberts, Roger Dean
[edit] External links
- Hall Of Light entry on Agony
- Agony - soundtrack and information @ UnExoticA
- Game Information, Files and Music at Psygnosis.org
