Agony (video game)

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Agony

Developer(s)	Art & Magic
Publisher(s)	Psygnosis
Platform(s)	Amiga
Release date	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.

Featuring three floppies and an end of the world theme, the game ran on all Amiga computers. In the game, the protagonist transforms into an owl and fights his way through a world filled with demons.

The game has gathered a strong cult following. The music and artwork is above average and 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.

Tim Wright's title song, sampled here, was adapted without giving him proper credit by the metal group Dimmu Borgir in the song "Sorgens Kammer" for their Stormblåst album. In a nod to the creator the band did not include the track on a later re-recording of Stormblåst.

The title song is also slightly different from the version that Tim Wright submitted, without his knowledge Franck Sauer changed the piano sounds for better ones. Unfortunately one of them was at the wrong octave this mistake was also covered by Dimmu Borgir.

[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