Timmy Time Adventure

A retro platformer for MS-DOS, with the gameplay of 8-bit console games and the graphics of 16-bit ones.

Timmy is a little inventor, and his latest project is a time machine. When he switches it on, it blows up, and Timmy and its pieces are scattered across history. Get him through four eras (the Jurassic, ancient Egypt, the Middle Ages and the Wild West), past enemies and traps, to recover the four missing pieces and get back home.

Playing

Key	Action
Arrows	Move, climb, crouch
Z	Jump (hold for a higher jump)
X	Pick up and throw objects, punch while jumping
Down + X	Short throw
Enter	Confirm
Esc	Menu
Space	Pause

Keys can be remapped from the options menu. The game is available in English, Spanish, Valencian, Galician, Basque, Catalan and Portuguese.

Requirements

• MS-DOS or compatible (or DOSBox-X)
• A DPMI host such as CWSDPMI (included)
• 486DX2 66MHz or better, VGA
• 8MB of RAM
• Sound Blaster (optional)

Building

You'll need:

• GNU Make
• DJGPP cross-compiler
• Allegro 4.2.3.1 (the last version with DOS support)
• Python 3.10.11 or newer, to convert the Tiled maps to binary files
• DOSBox-X, to run it

Set OS_INC_DIR, OS_GCC, OS_LIB_DIR and OS_DOSBOX in the Makefile to your own paths, then:

make release

and run TIMMY.EXE in DOSBox-X. If you use the VS Code C/C++ extension, point .vscode/c_cpp_properties.json at your compiler and libraries too.

Resource .dat files are built with Jordi's Allegro dat replacement. Art was made with Aseprite, maps with Tiled, and music with Reaper.

Adding a language

1. Copy res/game/eng.txt to a new file in res/game/ and translate it line by line (keep the order, and | for line breaks).
2. Add the language to E_TEXT_LANGUAGES and its name to LANG_TXT_OPTIONS in src/game.h.
3. Load it in game_init() in src/game.c.
4. Rebuild; src/data/gdata.h is regenerated with the new text's index.

Credits

Made by Warrior (Warcom Soft.). Licensed under the GPLv3.