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Warrior
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written Monday, November 24 2003 03:08
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I'm not sure what the protocol for talking about other games on this forum is, but since it's pretty slow around here... Check out the Devil Whiskey WWW page which is a remake of the classic Bard's Tale with OpenGL. I think that people who enjoy the SpiderWeb games or any Rouge-like games would enjoy this. IT runs on Windows and Linux (not sure about Mac). You can get a demo now, and the full version will be released at the end of the month. I've been tracking this project for several years and I thought it worth mentioning because it is so close (finally!) to release. The original Bard's Tale series, for those who are too young to remember, came out in the early 80's. It was a first-person perspective, tile-based, party-based CRPG. Let's just say that you needed a paper and pencil and reams of graph paper to even think about playing the game. Although the "plot" was simply Kill Foozle, the puzzles were fairly intricate and the dungeons were, to put it nicely, devious. You had 6 characters in your party, which could be chosen from different races and classes in a D&D-like system. The special character was a Bard who could play songs which had spell-like properties. My kind of game. I'm hoping that the new one might also require a scientific calculator.  -------------------- This space intentionally left blank. Posts: 70 | Registered: Monday, September 1 2003 07:00 |
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Master Jeweller
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written Monday, November 24 2003 04:32
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Also worth mentioning are the dozens of detailed animated monsters with EGA graphics, which was very state-of-the-art for the time. I also believe this is one of the first games that were mouse controlled. However my characters had so large a tendency of dying that I never got far in the game. -------------------- Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heilighthum! Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng getheilt, Alle Menschen werden Brüder, wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. Pieter Simoons aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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Babelicious
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written Monday, November 24 2003 13:22
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It's apparently not a remake of Bard's Tale, since they're charging for it. $25. Do they think I'm made of money? Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Monday, November 24 2003 15:04
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Apparently, they do. I'm not. And I know you aren't... Anyway... Um... Sidenote: There's no point to this post, it's just being made to get my mind off the fact that I suck at creating sprites. Dammit I made a reference to it. NO!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Monday, November 24 2003 16:26
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Well, now that we've established in a prior post that sagging is not necessarily sagacious: To clarify about DW, it is not a true remake of the BT games since they couldn't get the license. Rather it is a new game in the spirit of the old series. Actually a true remake of BT is also coming out but it will be completely redone in a 3-D engine and be more "action" oriented to appeal to a mass market. Thank you, X-box. *sigh* -------------------- This space intentionally left blank. Posts: 70 | Registered: Monday, September 1 2003 07:00 |
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Master Jeweller
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written Tuesday, November 25 2003 04:29
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I would say $25 is a bit excessive for a shareware game. Then again Spiderweb is charging the same  -------------------- Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heilighthum! Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng getheilt, Alle Menschen werden Brüder, wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. Pieter Simoons aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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Babelicious
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written Friday, November 28 2003 09:22
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Radiant is my favorite shareware developer ever. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Monday, December 1 2003 13:56
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the original Bard's tale wasn't shareware, tho. It did have a somewhat limited number of distinct items. )this post brought to you by the silver key. -------------------- Tip of the Day: #13 Stand clear the closing door. That's treason. (THNIK)(Peculiar James, FP productions co, inc) Posts: 816 | Registered: Friday, October 5 2001 07:00 |
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Master Jeweller
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written Thursday, December 4 2003 03:23
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Saggery -> Well thank you. And I was only just getting started Dxzhjk43fhsjdk or whatever -> true. (c) electronic arts iirc. And I do remember the Might n Magic series having a random item generator which created all sorts of meaningful permutations such as the Scorching Leather Sword of Ice Storms. No really. -------------------- Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heilighthum! Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng getheilt, Alle Menschen werden Brüder, wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. Pieter Simoons aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |