MSXdev08: Deep Dungeon announced

We're facing an exciting last three weeks: will they make it or not? Will we end with a handful o' games, or will there be a gameflood in the last week? One team to enter the arena is formed out of well known persons: Arturo Ragozini (ARTRAG), John Hassink (DemonSeed) and Richard Cornelisse (huey). The entry they'll be competing with is named Deep Dungeon! This promising surprise project is almost finished and is currently in the polishing phase. The game is announced to be a dungeon crawler, with modest system specifications: 16 KB RAM. The game itself is expected to become 32KB in size. These are exciting last weeks!

Relevant link: MSXdev website

Comments (24)

By dvik

Prophet (2173)

11-01-2009, 01:22

Looks interesting ! Is it based on the MOAM engine? Btw, do you guys have name for your group?

By Google

By ARTRAG

Prophet (3874)

11-01-2009, 01:36

No, it comes from a 1K game for vic 20 that has won a minigame competition in 2003,
but our version has some added value, do not worry!

Apropos ! Thanks to Aleksi Eeben (http://www.cncd.fi/aeeben) for his 1K WHACK.

By Huey

Prophet (2132)

11-01-2009, 15:25

Btw, do you guys have name for your group?
No not yet. We still haven't found a good name.

Any sugestions?

By wolf_

Ambassador (9124)

11-01-2009, 16:02

huarde

HAD

Chr (your last names (3x))

By wolf_

Ambassador (9124)

11-01-2009, 16:03

Char (the 'a' being a bonus to pronounce it)

and it covers the load, since you do MSX1 stuff, which works with characters

Which means 'Character' itself would also be suitable..

or:
Character Games
Character Group
Character Team

By hap

Paragon (1714)

11-01-2009, 16:09

ADHD group: ARTRAG DemonSeed Huey Development group
Rag Has Corn
team MOAM
MSX drei
Kees Vis

By wolf_

Ambassador (9124)

11-01-2009, 16:44

Character Entertainment

By LeandroCorreia

Paladin (803)

12-01-2009, 14:51

Dungeon Crawler
Dangerous Dungeon
Dungeon of <Insert a fantasy name in here>

By JohnHassink

wayward son (3181)

15-01-2009, 15:29

Ladies and gentlemen, we got a name!

Say hello to software team:

T R I L O B Y T E

By LeandroCorreia

Paladin (803)

15-01-2009, 20:18

There was a company with this name (creator of The 7th Guest). BTW, there´s also a game with the name of "Deep Dungeon" for MSX.

By Huey

Prophet (2132)

15-01-2009, 22:51

Hehehe. You're right.

Its a bit far fetched but the true story is that the name is derived from the 1 million dollar marketing stunt (a gaint brontosaurus) from Nishi. That story transformed after some minutes into TRILOBYTE.....

By ARTRAG

Prophet (3874)

16-01-2009, 12:56

[Offtopic]
Promotional space :-)

This competition:
http://minigamecomp.org.uk/
allows users to vote for the games presented
Voting is opened (for the 4K category)
Now all login problems are fixed.

There is a 4K MSX game that deserves your votes ;-)

By JohnHassink

wayward son (3181)

16-01-2009, 13:24

It deserves to be played too!

By dvik

Prophet (2173)

16-01-2009, 17:12

I still get the password wrong when I try to log in.

By dvik

Prophet (2173)

16-01-2009, 17:32

Clearing the cache helped. Now I can vote

By ARTRAG

Prophet (3874)

17-01-2009, 23:51

we should post some in game screens, or people will continue to expect an rpg...

By wolf_

Ambassador (9124)

17-01-2009, 23:58

oh, I was expecting a Tetris clone where you first have to find all the tetris bricks in dungeons..

ohwell...

By Huey

Prophet (2132)

18-01-2009, 00:24

Damn Wolf. How do you keep getting this information? Is there anything I can do without you knowing it?

img155.imageshack.us/img155/5131/deepdung41og5.png

By MäSäXi

Paragon (1616)

23-01-2009, 10:15

Very NICE looking Hack game!!! But where´s that VIC-20 screen resolution?

By the way, you guys are pretty old farts, as your company already died in Permian period, 250 million years ago....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LeggedTrilobite2.jpg

By MäSäXi

Paragon (1616)

23-01-2009, 10:21

By the way, your Deep Dungeon looks better and clearer than Hack which I played on my Amiga 500 almost twenty years ago....! I mean you can tell what´s what on this screenshot, it was harder on Amiga hack as Amiga´s characters are much more smaller than MSX 8x8 characters....

By JohnHassink

wayward son (3181)

23-01-2009, 12:02

Thanks!

And... our version has SOUND!

(and 3 difficulty levels)

By ARTRAG

Prophet (3874)

23-01-2009, 13:58

hemmm
better not rise expectation too much
our game core is 1K (990bytes actually)
hack has a "bit" more options/spells/objects/monsters and cannot be developed in 20 days...

By JohnHassink

wayward son (3181)

23-01-2009, 16:59

Yeah. Just a little more wait until the contest deadline.
Download it and play it; hopefully you'll enjoy.

By ARTRAG

Prophet (3874)

23-01-2009, 21:07

tomorrow d&d will be in Nijmegen