Whoa! I feel like an astronaut just jumped into an alien world, but with my massive mother-ship hovering in orbit. I am known as Dr. Dungeon. I want to apologize ahead of time if I'm at all off-topic. I'm a long-term Spiderweb fan and supporter. This seems the best place in the world to announce this:
ULTIZURK IV: Lord of the Cyclops is done!! What is it?? You can see the whole thing here: (Are links ok here?)
http://web.me.com/drdungeon/Site/MAIN.html
If not, feel free to email me at my mac address:
drdungeon@mac.com
ULTIZURK IV is a large and incredibly detailed new computer role-playing game, similar to great games like Avernum and Geneforge, different in others. Its nothing at all like my old DOS stuff. (Search Ultizurk 3 on the net)
Right now, it is on just the Mac - maybe a port in store to Windows if it goes half-well. The big thing about UZ4 is that while it has all the role-playing fixings, etc., its biggest brag is a very interactive world - stylistically similar to something like Ultima 7. Yes, you can bake bread and much more. Pick fruit for food, herbs for potions, make swords, trim sheep, use a weaving loom, chop ore from dungeons. Pop popcorn, etc.
Right now, as I write, an Indy film-maker is working on a complete music score. I already have over 100 sound effects in a game filled with over 3,000 tile graphics. It was an insanely complicated process that I have been working on in one form or another for over ten years. Project of my life - hardest thing I ever did.
There are wilderness areas to explore! Villas and cottages dot the land, volcanic regions bubbling in lava, desolate icy northlands. Farmlands and creepy dungeons abound. Day and night cycle, calendar - the works!
There are Amazons, willing to fight or teach. Castles with tall spires and waving flags, hundreds of NPC's. A party of 4 you create to explore Dr. Dungeon's bizarre new world!
And Ol' Killer-Jack Bill, the nutty but helpful fellow - hiding out in his sewers, dancing with the Amazons, or running a lemonaid stand in the fire-laden Blasted Lands. The lovely Water Witch, and her sister, the Fire Witch. A complete shipyard to sail to faraway places. Monsters weird and wonderful, like the WereShades that roam the Grizbon Plateau, ghosts, fire elementals, even snakemen.
And behind it all a strange invasion about to take place: The cyclops are coming, and no one knows who or what they are.
My goal is pretty bold: I'm hoping that maybe, just maybe, if its good enough, maybe I can convince the great Spiderweb Software to carry this.
I need play-testers, hopefully those who have beta tested Spider Web's excellent games. Only you guys and gals can truly judge if this game is worthy, in that "there's another one-man basement programmer out there" sort of a way.
If you're interested, please write me! We got to keep the classic gender alive, and Spiderweb is the only ones making really good classic stuff!
I hope Jeff doesn't read this. My big goal is to SURPRISE him!!!
I need your help guys! Check the site, let me know what you think!
Until then, bold adventurers, I remain yours,
-Dr. Dungeon
-In The Castle of
-The Mach Gryphon
Note: Right now its set as a Mac Intel-native program. It needs a res of 1680x1050 or higher - more about this later. Cheerio!