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Only a few C64 sceners who stayed around until the end with Commodore Format magazine will remember this game probably.
10th
Dan was to be a ground breaking martial arts beat-em-up game by
Jon Wells, featuring two massive
sprites and gameplay and graphics to beat IK+ to a pulp.
Originally
promised to feature a whole array of tunes, high quality samples,
excellent graphics and variety of maps (Which were to scroll aswell)
and some awesome moves to create a very playable game. But the
big thing was that Jon aimed to squeeze this entire game into
a single load!
Well,
its safe to say that after time during its development, Jon realised
that this dream would not be possible, and so a Multiload was
staring the game in the face.
During
the dying days of the C64, the game had its own diary installment
in Commodore Format magazine, detailing Jon's progress for the
game and taking the reader through all the problems that were
occuring. It was a very interesting read, and with all the progress
screenshots, it looked very promising indeed.
At
the time, Jon had a lot of projects on the go for the C64, and
sadly the support was not that great for them. People were just
not buying games, and eventually Jon decided to slow down his
productions and even cancel some too. After a trial on Supportware,
which Jon created, it was found that trying to sell games on the
C64 was going to be hard. So hard infact that Jon decided to call
it a day. Not that he has stopped all production completely, but
we may not see as many bits of code for our c64's like we used
to.
Since
GTW came about, we asked Jon about his titles, and mostly they
have all been put on hold. 10th Dan came up in conversation, and
Jon pretty much confirms that 10th Dan will never be completed.
But we cannot bring you any preview just yet, because Jon wishes
to use the code for something else, maybe C64 or even another
machine. The thing is, it MAY be finished in the future in some
form or another.
For
now, we bring an entry on the game with an insight into the game's
graphics, including a rare colour screenshot. In the near future,
Jon will hopefully give us some emulation screenshots to have
a look at.
The
one part of the game that has been released is the actual game
music which Jon did some years back. We therefore bring you the
sid tunes as a download for the time being.
The
Art Ravers originally saw the previews according to rumour, and
they felt it was a fantastic game that was coming along. What
with the quality of Jon's previous work, it is not hard to imagine
that the game would have been great
Jon has kindly passed on an emulation grabbed image of 10th Dan in action, so you can finally see in full glory what the game was looking like. Makes a change from scans! ;-)
We are hoping to provide a video clip of the game in motion in the future with Jon's permission..
Soon
we will attempt to archive the 10th Dan diaries and bring these
in HTML format for you.
Knocked
out sadly....
Frank.
(Additional
source credits - Andrew Fisher, Jon Wells)
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