Re: ActiveGS: Defender of the World

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"Polymorph" <polymorph@a2central.com.remove-kbw-this> wrote:

>Well, I copied DOTW across to my real IIgs, and wow! Very neat to see
>such a game on the IIgs. You are right too, it plays very fast on my
>accelerated IIgs - I had to slow the acceleration down because I kept
>getting my ass kicked! 

    It does make you wonder what kind of games we COULD seen for 
had the IIGS not fallen out of the commerical gaming market in 1991.
It was impressive, especially the volcanic cave level with the parallex
scrolling, reminded me of the effects in the Sword of Sodan demo.

>All the while playing music and displaying a scrolling background.

    Are you talking about the opening credits? I don't remember any
in-game music, unless this is a newer release I haven't seen.

>David has done an excellent job, its just a shame he never got the
>chance to finish it.  :-(
>
>Are you by any chance still in contact with David? Would he release the
>source or continue the game? It would be great to see it finished.

    There were two version released incidentally. The newer one 
has three levels (you can instantly skip to them by pressing "q") 
and has a 1996 copyright date. There was some thought on 
David finishing it if I remember right, I even offered to re-do all 
the graphics and sprites at the time.

    I actually wrote up a review of DOTW for the final issue of
II-Alive magazine (Winter 1996). Hard to believe that was 12
years ago! I still have it here, I should go see what I wrote... :)

Mitchell Spector