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Yet
another title from Starbyte and Bonespark...
and yet another GTW entry.
This
time we are greeted with a promising looking arcade adventure
game, which sadly doesn't seem to have got very far before it
was cancelled.
Originally,
the game was known as "Dragon Slayer",
which was being developed by a team at Linel
Software. This was shaping up to be a sideway scrolling
arcade adventure in the style of Rastan.
However,
the project got switched to Starbyte, with a new team of developers,
and the title started to become (As Oliver describes) "more
like Psygnosis' Barbarian".
Bonespark
was asked to do the C64 conversion, and so Oliver and Markus were
assigned to the game. Oliver created two screens for the game
(which can both be found here), and Markus composed one tune (again
found here).
Starbyte
soon cancelled the game, as they did not agree to the conditions
set by Bonespark. So the game never progressed really beyond what
is here now.
There
is no coder mentioned, though it is assumed that Markus was infact
going to be doing the coding. I assume also that Oliver never
mentioned a coder, because there was no code ever started. Unless
Linel had some C64 code done for their version.
At
the moment, it seems this entry is complete... Maybe some additional
words from Markus and other information will close the doors on
this game's case.
Looking
at the remains, it looks and sounds good.. but sadly we may never
know how good this really would have been...
Another
potential stunner lost...
Frank
(Additional
source credits - Oliver Lindau)
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