Hi Dark, Yeah, that sounds like it. Basically, the game was suppose to look like you were in a cockpit of an x-wing with tie fighters attacking from the left, right, and straight ahead. You lined them up in your crosshairs and blew them away. On the final level the Death Star would appear and you had to line up the Death Star, fly inside it, and take out the main reactor core.
While I take your point of a simple game concept morfing into something much more complex as happened with MOTA I know I could create a Star Wars game faithful to the original if I wanted to. It is really a case of coming up with a simple design and sticking to it which is something I didn't do with MOTA. Let's not forget with MOTA there were certain pressures that wouldn't be the case here. For example, from the moment I took over Montezuma's Revenge I was under extreme pressure to produce a game as people had paid for it and wanted their money's worth. A few began demanding this or that feature even though it wasn't a part of the design and wanting to make a better product I bent over backwards to attempt to meet those demands. Before I knew it the situation had snowballed into something else completely different. The problem was I didn't stand up to the people and say this is how it is going to be and that's it. If I write a game similar to Death Star Mission it would of course be a free game. I'm under no obligations to listen to end user feedback and I don't owe anyone a darned thing. If they don't like it they can go jump in a lake. So if I wanted to write a simple arcade shoot-m-up like the original that's how it would be. I merely pointed out the realistic physics etc just to point out how the original idea might be expanded upon were I interested in going the extra mile. Cheers! On 11/19/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > > Was that the arcade game which fucntioned a little like a shooter with you > having a cross hair to move around the screen and aim your lasers as lots of > > stuff came at you? we used to have that game on the amstrad computer and it > > was indeed cool. > > Much as I'd love a realistic starwars game, the one problem with a starwars > > arcade game is that I could see it too easily turning into another mota, > that is a simple game concept which gets expanded way behond it's > simplicity. > > For instance, you mention realistic x wing physics. Well knowing that you > have the tech manuals, just as with final conflict you would probably want > the actual x wing stats in the game, which would mean also including the > actual tie fighter stats and size and shape of the deathstar trench as well > > as weaponry and action from the films themselves. > > So already we have more complex physics than just an arcade game would seem > > to need. > > then either yourself or the public might want to include more stuff in the > game, like the other rebellian pilots fighting on your side, darth vader in > > his tie fighter, the death stars attack towers, a time limit before the > deathstar got to the moon of yavin etc. > > so, while I love the idea of a starwars game, I think there is too much to > include to make it affectively a simple arcade game like berzerk or > millipeed would be, which is what we were discussing. > > I'd suggest personally if you were! going to make a starwars game go the > hole hog and do a full flight combat sim with realistic physics, missionsk, > > weaponry etc. > > As to montizuma's revenge, there were two versions of the game I tried from > > retroremakes. one was a rather enhanced one with 3D graphics and great > music, but it had a very bad contrast and isommorphic perspective that made > > it a little hard for me to play. > > the other was much more faithfull to the original I think, though possibly > with more colours, and that is the version I meant, still, it'd be worth a > try though i'll not be able to play it until next weekend when I'm back at > my flat. > > I'll have to check retroremakes and see what I can find out about the > different versions. > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
