![]() ![]() By the end of the fifteenth century, those late-medieval troop. ![]() The infantry formations of the period were a mix of pikemen and shot (arquebusiers or musketeers). ![]() What I have for download so far is a prototype of the desired eventual renaissance battle experience that I hope you will enjoy. Pike and shot is a historical method of infantry combat, and also refers to an era of European warfare generally considered to cover the period from the Italian Wars to the evolution of the bayonet in the late seventeenth century. Pike 'n Shot is still in very early alpha status. Then I actually did and unfortunately they proved to be a combination of awkward and unsatisfying.īut my idea of what they might have been like still excited me and so I set about making Pike 'n Shot: my attempt to make a good game out of that inspiration. The result is a fast paced, real-time renaissance battle that is a lot more streamlined and plays sort of like a shoot'em up. Screen shots of these games I saw in magazines really grabbed my imagination as a kid and I was dying to play them. Pike 'n Shot is heavy inspired by both the Gameboy game Mercenary Force as well as the battlefield part of the NES/Amiga game North & South. I thought it would be cool if sometime in the 80s there had been a (Pike and)shooter arcade game where you controlled a formation of 16th century, early gunpowder era mercenaries. ![]()
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