for August By: Andy Maddock
BPM Promotions is a new games company that has penned in some future releases which are all looking quite exciting. The basis of the developments is a program called Reality which is a software construction kit written by BPM. It will be used on the new titles which include The Daring Adventures Of Robin Hood, Spacefighter, and Reality will also be released.
Robin Hood will be a point and click adventure game and is scheduled for release around September. BPM is currently concentrating on the game design and graphics, making sure they are almost perfect before advancing.
Obviously, the game will feature Robin Hood himself alongside Friar Tuck, Maid Marion, Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. It's basically a Monkey Island-type adventure but with Robin Hood as the star of the show.
The second project is called Spacefighter. You may think it looks familiar, a bit like Body Blows by Team 17, but BPM claims that Spacefighter boasts more characters, artificial intelligence, detailed backdrops, digitised speech and special moves. At the moment it sounds like a beat-'em-up to rival the brand new Capital Punishment, but we'll have to wait and see.
The final product for the moment is the actual software construction kit, entitled Reality. Four yearsŐ work has gone into making this program, helping people produce commercial quality software products over a short period. We'll have a preview next month.
| Robin Hood is going to be the first adventure game. Let's hope it's going to be good |
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As you can see, Spacefighter looks amazingly like Body Blows, so if the gameplay can match it could be a winner |
Game EngineA new software company called Aspire 2 has decided to release a brand new software construction program. It uses some easy menus so you can fiddle around designing sprites and backgrounds within minutes. There's also an impressive example game featuring a chicken or a duck (I can't tell)!! We'll give you more information next month when we'll give it the full going over. |
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This is the menu screen where everything can be accessed |
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