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A
new addition to GTW by Gremlin Graphics, which was never heard
about until now.
Pete
Dabbs has brought to our attention a game called Flonk, where
you control a green mutant frog like creature, similiar to that
of Gribbly.
The game was
set in a 64x64x64 cube and consisted of "Lilly" type pads spread in front of the players. The players would hop around on a pseudo-3D rotatable world made up of these lily
pads and you would have to bounce around on these pads while
avoiding traps and nasties, and creating bridges to get around.
To kill enemies, you had some kind of limited weapon (Not clear
what it was).
The game was split vertically into two screens for a two player mode, where you could chase each other to frag each other whilst avoiding the puzzle elements in the game.
This
is currently all we know about the game itself, though Pete, Paul and Richie all give excellent details about the game which you can read in Creators Speak. Pete informs GTW
that the game would have been really good had it been finished.
It was being developed by none other than Esprit Software, and was designed by one of the Sharla developers Paul Crawley.
The
game was being developed for Gremlin, and when Paul and Ritchie
went to work at Gremlin, supposidly to finish off Flonk, they
were then moved onto other projects, and Flonk never got finished
as a result.
The
possiblity of finding the game is there, with chance that Richie might be able to find some disks - but the PC based ones had deterioated when checked. Pete himself has offered the chance that he
might have something of the game too. Paul moved to the US in 1996 and feels he very likely has nothing of the game any longer.
Finger
crossed, we might actually see something of this title one day!
An
exciting 3D Gribbly kind of game...
Frank.
(Additional
source credits - Pete Dabbs, Paul Crawley, Ritchie Brannan)
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