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A
sad tale for this unfinished RPG game.
This
was in development by Waveform in
the 90's, but sadly the game's creator John
Kaiser died in April 23, 1997 due to Hodgekin's Lymphoma.
John left behind this very title which was released into the world
by XmikeX. XmikeX was a friend of Waveform and released the remains
on August 28, 1997, through disC=overy magazine. It was embedded
within the magazine text as a UUEncoded sfx file.
According
to rumours, all of John's source disks and hardware were given
to another C64 scener, which may be Roy Batty.. though there is
news of Ernest Stokes having some disks and hardware. This was
brought up due to the possibility of someone finishing what is
excellent work by John.
It
is sad to put a game into GTW for these reasons, but it would
be wrong not to, and one thing left to do for John's title is
to immortalise it and preserve what it was.
It
is a nice little RPG, and thanks to TRIAD recently cracking the
game, they have put the instructions into a note file at the beginning
of the demo.The basic controls are : ' { and / on the PC keyboard
to move the little man around the world.
It
seems that the game didn't reach a large stage of completion,
as there is not too much on the disks, but it depends on how big
John was planning this game to be. Hopefully friends of John will
be able to shed some more light on his title, and we'll be able
to read the doc file which is with the download.
A
lot more work needed to fully preserve this game in GTW, but for
now this is a masterful piece of work to check out and hopefully
John will be pleased that people can enjoy what he managed to
create.
A
sad tale to a GTW...
Frank
and Andrew.
(Additional
source credits - Loribee)
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