OpenTyrian is a port of the DOS shoot-em-up Tyrian. Jason Emery generously gave the OpenTyrian developers a copy of the Tyrian 2.1 source code, which has since been ported from Turbo Pascal to C. The port uses SDL, making it easily cross-platform.

Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. The story is set in 20,031 where you play as Trent Hawkins, a skilled fighter-pilot employed to fight Microsol and save the galaxy.

Builds

Builds are available for Windows and Mac OS X. Grab a copy of the Tyrian 2.1 data files (mirror), since they usually are not included with the builds.

There are also console builds for the Amiga, Dreamcast, DS, GameCube, Gizmondo, GP2X, Nokia Internet Tablets, PSP, PS3 Linux, Symbian, Wii, and Wiz.

Building

If you'd prefer to build OpenTyrian Classic yourself, clone the repository, acquire the SDL and SDL_net development libraries, and...

• on Linux: run make release
• on Windows: install MinGW, rub your lucky rabbit's foot, and run make release
• on Mac OS X: open the project file, and click the Build button (this is probably broken, somebody on a Mac needs to update the project file for us)

Contacting the development team

• #tyrian on freenode
• the OpenTyrian forum