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Venus Patrol
A downloadable game for Windows
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A NEW WORLD ENTERS THE JET AGE
Fly Meteors and Vampires above the sulphur clouds of Venus.
MARVELS OF BRITISH ENGINEERING
Control fully physically modelled aircraft using only the mouse.
RED TERROR IN THE SKIES
Develop your dogfighting skills to hold back the communists.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun says:
"... a remarkable hybrid of simplicity and complexity, a challenging and technical plane game hidden behind accessible controls and dreamy visuals."
First released in 2011. Contains two tutorial and three combat scenarios. Designed for low resolution. Requires a mouse.
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Rating | |
| Author | Neil Thapen |
| Genre | Simulation |
| Tags | Alternate History, Atmospheric, colonial, flat-shading, Flight, Lo-fi, Low-poly, Physics |
| Average session | About a half-hour |
| Languages | English |
| Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
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VenusPatrol.zip 9.4 MB
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Hello! I know it's been a while.
I was browsing your games website and there I found listed a prototype for Venus Patrol. It looked very interesting so i went to download it, by clicking on the link provided but upon extracting the files i discovered that i had actually downloaded Clatter of Keys. Presumably the link was mistakenly copied from that earlier paragraph. Anyhow i was wondering if you still had a working download link for that prototype, I'd love to try it!
Thanks in advance!
That's a deep cut. I can't find it on my computer, but here is a link to a download, in fact of all the games from the Tigsource Cockpit Competition, 2009 (play Enviro-Bear 2000!): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wxdm2y1yylt
I remember the interesting thing about this version was there was a cloud of triangular flying aliens you could interact with, using some kind of flocking algorithm. Unfortunately, trying it now it's uncontrollable, as if something is weirdly wrong with the mouse. I am not 100% sure if this is a technical problem or some choice I made about control schemes at the time.
Oh wow! I bet it's a goldmine! I'm going to check all of them out and let you know, i'm exited to see what those nausicaa looking aliens are about, many thanks for the download.
i've tried a few (along with Euro-Bear 2000, great fun that was! Loved the music.) and they worked fine, but most games i just can't seem to get working, including venus patrol. it opens the console, does something (haven't found a log.txt file or similar so i can't tell what exactly) and then immediately closes itself. i've tried copiying "avbin.dll" as indicated in the readme file but it doesen't seem to make any difference.
Fells like i'm missing something pretty straightfoward and obvious, so i'll keep trying a bit longer.
In the meantime, i can reccommend C'est La Vie (https://cameronmeyer.itch.io/cest-la-vie), it popped back into my mind while playing Euro-Bear 2000, it's quite fun to mess round in and has a nice tranquil(?) atmosphere.
is there any plan for new games?
Hi Neil, I remember playing this game in 2013. It keeps being as amazing as it was then!
I would like to try and make a spiritual clone with https://bevyengine.org/ and https://github.com/Jondolf/avian for learning purposes. I've read the other comments here, and I would be glad to have the source.
Would you be up for sharing the source with me and with a possible clone in Bevy?
If so you can find my contact info here.
Many thanks in advance!
Did you get my email about this?
All well. Many thanks again!
do u plan in remaking this game anytime soon? or making a sequel idk
Thanks for asking, but no plans.
dang it
I really like the mouse control, it feels comfortable and allows for easy landing. If one day you make another flight simulator, keep that mechanic.
It becomes very difficult when the enemy doesn't let themselves be killed, those Sukhois manage to get behind me but I will keep trying.
I wish there was a map so I wouldn't get lost so often.
Still as beautiful as it was on first release.
Do you think you'll ever expand the game or do you feel completely done with it?
I seem to remember some talk about a remake or something when the Venus Patrol blog launched.
Thank! No, I think it's done.
hey Neil have you played Tiny combat arena? kinda reminds me of Venus patrol, u should try it out!
Yes, I've been following it. It's looking good.
true that
game not working anymore...
- What exactly is happening?
- Have you played it successfully before, and do you know what has changed since then?
- Are you playing it through the itch app?
Thanks.
first time and game not appearing on screen im playing through tapp
Do you mean through the itch app?
- Does it work if you download the zip file, unpack it and run it from the exe file? If it doesn't work, what is in the log.txt file?
- What OS are you running it on, and what sort of hardware?
Thanks.
log:
Desktop width and height: 1366 768
OpenGL extension ARB_Point_Sprite is not available.
WARNING: ARB_vertex_program is not available.
WARNING: OpenGL shading language extensions are not all available.
Aliased point size range: nan - nan
Smooth point size range: 0.5 - 10
Aliased line width range: 0.5 - 10
Smooth line width range: 0.5 - 10
Available OpenAL sound devices: DirectSound Software,
Using sound device: DirectSound Software
Messengers reset
running on windows 10
This is running from it's own directory, right, not from the unzip program?
I'm sorry, I don't know what to suggest. It looks like it's some problem with OpenGL, but it may not be -- it's a long time since I followed how things like that work. Conceivably updating graphics drivers might help, but really I don't know.
I would be interested to know what graphics card and what driver for it you have.
Hey Neil, loving your game and my only complaint is that its a bit small so I was wondering if you could send me the code so i can turn it into a bit of a coding project over the summer? I have absolutely zero idea how to code so this is probably going to be quite difficult but also probably quite fun!
P.S. my email is mpaterson2006@gmail.com
P.P.S. Also the post processing is completely broke for my device and I was wondering if you had a fix.
What are you running it on, and what exactly is the problem? And what happens when you toggle the post-processing off and then on? e.g. v to turn off, v to turn on again?
The problem is that the frames will freeze on screen and copy over each other, creating a wiping effect. It stops if I look straight down towards the clouds however.
I sent you an email. I think getting the actual game code to compile is going to by a struggle, as it's old code in D and I expect the D ecosystem has changed since then.
But the missions, and I think the aircraft, are set up in plain text files (plus some 3d files for the aircraft models) and should be fairly self-explanatory. You can test scripting commands by opening the console and just typing them. There's some discussion of it further down this comments page, from six months ago.
Thanks! I've made a bunch of custom levels and I'm starting to get a hang on the scripts and such, the main thing I want to do now is get some of the unused models (mostly the lander and carrier) into the game.
Hi Neil, I thought you might be interested in some art I made on Venus Patrol, I hope you like it! https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zDnqam
Thanks, that's neat!
this looks amazing whatahell
does anyone have a good mod for this?