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Apart from the odd clip in a few of the Commodore magazines, nothing was much seen or heard about this little game. It wasn't until Commodore Format ran a feature, Where are they now, when they mentioned Ubik (David Korn) and a few of his games.
All
Terrain Gardener
was one of these, and again thoughts were about the existance
of the game. The game involves is to save a garden of flowers
from a flood of water which gradually increases, by digging up
the flowers and putting them to safety. Featuring cool overlaid
sprites and graphics by Paul Docherty (Dokk),
and a good rendition of "Flight Of
The Bumblebee" by Tonal Teapot, the game had the makings
of a winner.
ATG was the last game that Ubik wrote. The game was fully completed,
but unfortunatly at the time of completion, British Telecom who
owned Firebird, decided that Firebird was not making enough money
and closed it down. Therefore ATG remained unpublished.
Ubik
told C-Zone in an interview that Gary Liddon
badgered him to dust the game down and tidy it up, which they
did. Removing bugs, glitches and tweaking the game, Ubik offered
it to Codemasters, whom never replied. And so ATG gathered dust
once more.
There
was talk of the game being converted to the Colour Gameboy, from
Gary Liddon, but this never happened.
In
recent years, Commodore Zone magazine got in contact with Ubik
for an interview, where Ubik then gave a full copy of ATG for
their covermount, along with permission to use his other programs.
A
neat little game *finally* released.
Frank.
(Additional
source credits - Ubik, Dokk and Commodore Zone)
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