Tyrian community and resources

Where Tyrian players meet, where to get the original game, and the reference sites worth reading next to this wiki. Every link below leads to an outside site.

Community

Gamera's Tyrian Fan Forums (ProBoards): boards for Tyrian discussion, help getting the game to run, multiplayer, modding, and an OpenTyrian section; it is also the forum the OpenTyrian project points to.

Play the original

Tyrian 2000 on GOG.com: the original game, free, packaged with DOSBox for Windows and macOS.
Camanis.net: hosts the freeware DOS releases (Tyrian 1.1, Tyrian 2.1 and Tyrian 2000) and is the freeware Tyrian page Wikipedia links to.

References

Tyrian (video game) on English Wikipedia: development, releases, reception and the open-source history of the game.
Tyrian on PCGamingWiki: where each release is sold, configuration files and fixes for running Tyrian and Tyrian 2000 on a modern PC.
Tyrian on the shmups wiki: an overview of the releases, from the shareware first episode to Tyrian 2000 and the Game Boy versions.
Tyrian Wiki on Fandom: the community wiki of the original game, with pages on its characters, planets, ships, weapons and levels.
Vannevar's Tyrian page (archived): a fan site from the 2000s, kept by the Internet Archive, with trivia on Tyrian's early days, its Zanac connection and the Game Boy ports.

The original authors

Tyrian was programmed by Jason Emery, drawn by Daniel Cook and scored by Alexander Brandon and Andreas Molnar, at Eclipse Software.

Lost Garden: Daniel Cook's long-running blog on game design, where he also released his Tyrian graphics.
Alexander Brandon on English Wikipedia: the composer of Tyrian, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Unreal, Unreal Tournament and Deus Ex.
Alexander Brandon on Bandcamp: his own page, with the Tyrian soundtrack next to his other game scores and remix albums.

Graphics and art sources

Free game graphics: Tyrian ships and tiles (Lost Garden, April 2007): Daniel Cook's remastered Tyrian ship and tile sheets, offered as a free PNG download for games and prototypes.
Remastered Tyrian Graphics on OpenGameArt: a copy of that set, credited to Daniel Cook and listed under CC-BY 3.0.

OpenTyrian2000 Enhanced does not ship Daniel Cook's remastered set: its sprites come from the Tyrian 2000 data, and its HD (AI) mode is an upscale of those same sprites. Details are on Sources and credits.

Music and remixes

Tyrian: Original Soundtrack on Bandcamp: the composer Alexander Brandon's release of the game's music, 40 tracks, name your price.
Tyrian (Original Game Soundtrack) at Materia Collective: the label's page for the 2010 album by Alexander Brandon and Andreas Molnar.
Tyrian on OverClocked ReMix: the game's page on the fan arrangement site, with three ReMixes (A Rare Find, Data Flux and The Beautiful Spaceships).

Speedrunning, articles and podcasts

Tyrian 2000 on speedrun.com: leaderboards for full-game, Arcade and Super Tyrian runs, with a small forum.
DOS Game Club, episode 19: Tyrian (August 2018): a podcast discussion of the game with a guest from its speedrunning scene.
Tyrian on Hardcore Gaming 101 (2011): a long review that covers the releases, the secrets, Destruct and the unreleased Game Boy versions.

OpenTyrian on GitHub: the open-source port of Tyrian, under the GNU GPL, that OpenTyrian2000 Enhanced Edition builds on.

Where the facts on this wiki come from is listed on Sources and credits.