[projectaon] Re: Spectrum Games
- From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:14:25 +0100
David Davis wrote:
By the way, the "Ice Halls of Terror" was advertised in the back of the
books,
excuse my cluelessness, but did that game never actually get made?
Does our page mention this tale?
No, it was never written. A PA member (I forget who--apologies!) contacted Jon
Hare (who "drew" the title screen for the game), and he told us:
“Lone Wolf and the Ice Halls of Terror was the second game that I ever did any
work on and my first commission as a graphics artist. From what I recall I
started working on it around June 1985 and all I was asked to do for it was a
title screen on the Spectrum (which I completed and was the first title screen I
ever designed). I seem to remember the title screen was of a large green
dragony wormy kind of thing with a number of bulgy eyes and its head poking out
of an icy cave.
“The game was commissioned for development by LT software (based in Basildon,
Essex) who also handled the development of Skyfox, Flyer Fox, Twister, Sodov the
Sorcerer, and an early (unfinished and unpublished) version of International Karate.
“This was done literally in the first month of my game development career when I
was 19, I did not know how things worked back then and did not pay attention to
stuff like who the programmers were, in fact I don't think I ever saw the game
running at all.
“As far as I am aware the development of this game was abandoned prior to its
completion.
“I also have no idea where my work on this game is now… but as the first piece
of game development I ever got paid for it will always have a special place in
my heart.”
So it wouldn't even have been related to the first two, which were written by
Five Ways Software.
(The above information can be found in the LW_Software.pdf file, toward the
back.)
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Simon Osborne
Project Aon
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