|  It's Now Time For "Pets Rescue"! | | Posted by Luca on 2018-02-24 |
 Nine months passed since Mad/BKN started a thread in the forum about the chance to begin converting some famous games to run on Commodore Plus/4. The so called conversion did early become a game from scratch with some recognisable style, precisely: a platform in Giana's style. After these nine months of painful but passionate work, Pets Rescue has finally seen the light!
She's Dr. Andrea Brown, but all the people name her "Afro Dree", as she uses to entertain their puppies by singing and dancing. Her bigger mistake? To choose her co-workers very badly! And now, the whole county has been invaded by ex-pets under evil mutation; so: it's time to set'em all free, Dr. Dree! The Plus/4 All Stars crew invite all of you to enter this big quest lying in one single disk side, along 20 levels splitted in 5 worlds full of mean creatures, brave jumps, moving platforms, coins to collect, secrets to reveal and much much more! You get one password per world once you solved it, so don't loose your hopes even against the higher difficulties, where you must express your best platformer's performances.
Technically speaking, Mad has allowed the Plus/4 to show exactly the stuff that would have proverbially been deny to it due to the well known specifics of the machine, and the solutions he did find for his code mark another quantum leap in the TED history. Give an experienced graphician and game map's builder to a skilled coder, and the game simply takes off: KiCHY/ASN has designed some very enjoyable game levels with graphic blocks in fancy colours and shapes. It's 5tarbuck at the tracker, composing most of the ingame tunes, together with Luca/FIRE and Degauss/TEK; and the latter two also have also been in charge for all the sprites (Luca) and the music driver (Degauss). Seen that stunning intro picture in overscan MFLI 248 pixels high, and the relative titlescreen's logo? Exactly, it's Carrion! And Nero added his art too. Have you just tried to load the game? Lightspeed, isn't it? Do you still have some technical questions for bubis and BSZ/NST, now that the game loads from both 1541 and 1551 drives?
Pets Rescue has been presented at BCC #12 party held in Berlin, challenging in the Mixed compo. Though the whole game almost fills an entire disk side, and the main part occupies all the memory but 14 (!) bytes left, there will be a commercial release in some months, predictably distributed by Psytronik Software. Rumors say that the commercial release could show some little bonuses here and there, and Carrion himself will draw the box cover...rumors say! ;)
Enough said, we think it's now time to connect your most friendly joystick and stop appreciating the efforts in coding graphics or whatever else; give the real best prize wanted for a game like this, give it your greatest scores. Play Pets Rescue! |
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