Re: New Horizons, space combat and trading game
@firefly, some sort of dungeon keeper type game is definitely still rattling around in my head. Hearing that New Horizons made a positive impact makes me want to develop other ideas and I've learnt a lot.
Believe it or not but Horizons was originally only going to have 4 channels of even simpler sound, because that was a limit to the sound channels in BBC Basic. Firelight Technologies created FMOD, which allows numerous sound files to be pre-loaded and played quickly, while controlling aspects of how each sound is played. Treasure Islands made use of Windows sound commands which were a little on the slow side, and not so good for real time action. Now that I know all this, there are a number of things that I want to try.
The general idea is to work on a handful of simpler games of different types. Perhaps putting the best ideas into something bigger later on.
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