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This unnamed shoot em up was being designed by Shaun Pearson, with Jason Kelk to do the coding for the game. Shaun tells more about his collection of mockups produced, and which you can download from the site:
"Forgotten and Found 4
Aka: Shoot’em Up Mock-up Screens x4
Created 2008
Photoshop/Adobe [1989-2001]
Char Pad 1.0 /Stewart Wilson/Subchrist Software [2003]
Released 2011
T.M.R./Cosine requested some graphics for a horizontal colour scroll Shoot’em up. I can’t quite recall the details, although I do recall there being limitations. The game was to be single load. The Level was to be constructed using 4x4 Blocks using a maximum of 128 characters. The scroll area 12 screens wide. The remaining 128 characters were to be used to create another level (to be created by someone else).
During the creation of Level, Brain-storm thoughts emerged as Red planet, Mars, abandoned building, some forms of life - possibly cyborg. The yellow circular structure shows obvious signs of R-Type/Irem creeping into my thoughts.
Some sprites were created, although never animated, with the exception of an explosion, which used a total of 4 frames of animation. I was really happy how that turned out :)"
Unfortunately the graphics were never used - as the ideas look very promising. As Shaun mentioned, there is a hint of R-Type about the graphic mock ups.
This was all there ever was of the game, just some concept mockups - but worth seeing - like static screenshots in old computer magazines promising a cool game!
Case closed!
Frank
(Additional source credits - Shaun Pearson) |
