Re: [Enigma-devel] Looking for Oxyd info

[Nat Pryce]

Your game looks very like Spindizzy, a classic from the 8-bit era.  It was
published for, among others, the Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore 64
computers.  Spindizzy was itself inspired by the arcade game Marble Madness.

More info here:
http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap14/spindizzy.html
http://www.mjwilson.demon.co.uk/crash/29/spindizzy.htm

You can download the music from here:
http://exotica.fix.no/tunes/unexotica/games/Spindizzy_Worlds.html

Cheers,
        Nat "8-bit trivia buff" Pryce

----- Original Message -----
From: "marciot" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:44 AM
Subject: [Enigma-devel] Looking for Oxyd info


> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm looking for some historical information about Oxyd.
> Many years back (maybe twelve years ago, I think) a friend
> showed me a cool little game. It was a short demo and I don't
> remember much about it, but it had been enough to motivate
> me to write a version of it for the Macintosh, which I had
> called "Stratocubes". Though I had made it playable, I
> pretty much had abandoned the project, because I have this
> horrible habit of not finishing what I start.
>
> This year, I was in need for a project for a college level
> AI course and I resurrected the game and ported it over to
> Linux using SDL. The AI part of the project had involved
> adding a neural network control to the marble, which didn't
> work too well. To make a long story short (too late!), the
> surprizing part is that after my presentation someone asked
> whether my game was inspired by "Oxyd." I didn't know, since
> I had never caught the name of the original game that I had
> seen.
>
> Anyhow, I haven't been able to find much information about
> Oxyd, although I did come across this project. It's pretty
> clear from the description that Enigma is very similar to
> the game that had inspired mine, although there are some
> differences. I've attached a screenshot of my current Linux
> version. Obviously, the major difference is that the playing
> board is in 3D, whereas Enigma uses a 2D playing surface.
> I'm pretty sure that the game which I had seen before had
> the 3D playing surface and this wasn't something I invented.
>
> Can anyone on the list offer some insight as to what this
> game was? Also, I would love to know what the original
> objective of this game was. As it stands, my version is
> sort of pointless and all you do is move around bumping
> into walls and falling into the water (mostly falling into
> the the water :). It's not very interesting right now, and
> although I think it has a potential to be a cool game, I
> really don't know where to go with it from here.
>
> Any pointers and/or information about the original game
> would be appreciated (I would love to see screenshots
> if anyone had it).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcio Luis Teixeira
>
>


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