Burntime

Burntime is a strategy/RPG video game for MS-DOS and Amiga produced by Max Design in 1993.

Burntime
Amiga box art
Developer(s)	Max Design
Publisher(s)	Max Design
Programmer(s)	Albert Lasser Wilfried Reiter
Writer(s)	Albert Lasser Wilfried Reiter
Composer(s)	Clemens Helbock Hannes Seifert
Platform(s)	Amiga, MS-DOS
Release	EU: 1993 NA: 1994
Genre(s)	Role-playing, strategy
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Plot

The game is set in a post-apocalyptic future, based on the three stages of every civilized society: ascent, heyday, and downfall. Burntime starts at the end of a flourishing civilization. The main goal of the game is to conquer the remaining habitable areas, as well as to survive.

Gameplay

To progress through this game the player must establish sources of food and water. The player must then clear out hostiles and hire mercenaries to guard the location. Armor can be found in the form of protective suits, and all elements of a suit must be collected for full protection.

There are three classes of mercenaries: doctors, technicians, and fighters. Fighters are good at defending areas and killing monsters. Technicians are needed to combine scrap items to produce working items (for example, wire, plus screws, plus a woodpile will produce a rat trap, a great source of food and income). Finally, doctors will heal the player and his men if he keeps them over a period of time.

External links

• Burntime at Lemon Amiga
• Burntime can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive