SKODA305

The year is 1916. High above the emerald Soča, two siege guns wake on opposite ridges — the Austro-Hungarian Škoda 30.5 cm mortar and Italy’s Obice da 305. Between them lie limestone peaks, snow, drifting wind, and mathematics.

SKODA 305 is a love letter to the oldest genre in computer gaming: the artillery duel. From the text-mode Artillery games of 1970s mainframes to the shareware legend Scorched Earth (1991), one idea has survived every generation of hardware: two guns, one angle, one charge of powder, and the wind laughing at your arithmetic. This game carries that torch back to where the big guns really stood — the Isonzo Front, 1915–1917.

Built as if it were the 1994 PC era: true 320×200 VGA, a fixed palette, ordered dithering, a chunky pixel font, 8-bit Sound Blaster crunch — every sprite, sound, and background generated from code, every photograph a real archival plate from the war, rendered in the way of our nostalgic memories.

Features

• Turn-based artillery duels on fully destructible alpine terrain — craters bite, ridges collapse, guns fall

• Wind: it drifts and gusts every shot; read the signal flag, listen to your soldier, or switch on the advanced ballistic calculator and argue with physics directly

• Two historical guns, faithfully unequal: the Škoda 30.5 cm Mörser M.11 against the longer-reaching Obice da 305/17

• 1 player against the prescription software, or 2 players at one keyboard, first to three rounds

• SCHOOL — a field manual with the game’s real equations, the wind-flag lesson, and fact sheets with period photographs and verified specifications

• Four languages: English, slovene, Deutsch, italiano

• An original melancholic march in A minor, and silence where it matters

In memoriam

This game is set on a real front. Between 1915 and 1917, twelve battles of the Isonzo were fought through these mountains, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers of many nations — Slovenes, Italians, Austrians, Hungarians, Czechs, Croats, Bosnians, and more — never came home from the Soča.

This small game is played in their mountains. To all of them, on every side of the wire: respect, and eternal peace - Vsem padlim na soški fronti — večni mir in spomin.

May the only shells that ever again fly over the Soča be made of pixels.

Prescription Games · MIT licensed · photographs public domain · plays in browser, downloads for Linux, Windows and macOS.