Nice to hear from someone who worked on the game. But I would love to know what the artists do nowadays. A beautiful game for the time, but I must say the map picture was easily my favorite. Followed by the issue cover – the skeleton with the dice.

richard

I guess the game was a fairly colossal undertaking, especially given the kinds of tools available to developers and artists back then. I wonder if anyone has the original source code and art or if there are any playable prototypes floating around?

I worked at Systems Architects at the time and I was the programmer who made the sprites do all the fancy walking around. I remember that to get all the realistic movement we had a huge book where some guy had taken thousands and thousands of sequences of still frames of people of all varieties walking, jumping, crouching, etc. We’d use these pictures to make the walking in all directions and all situations as realistic as possible.

The owner of the company was my classmate at Kingston University, Jason Turner. We never did finish the game and his company went under not long afterwards. I got out of gaming immediately after that and am only in the last few years returning to my Ancient love 😉

Developer said to of been working on another ST game besides this, ‘Dimension 45′, though i never saw any screenshots, so assume it never got very far along.