What would be your dream project?
pumpkin patch.
Vanja Utne: Pond is my dream project, really! Oh, games? Something with a Bob Wakelin cover, and lots of room for graphics. Pirates and witches and dragons and goblins and things.
Craig is working on a C64 version of Swing Copters and a few other things.
Are there any future projects you can tell us about? Vanja Utne: Andreas is coding two different shoot'em ups for two fairly obscure 8 bit platforms. We're also working on some more Spaceman Splorf games together, all different genres but featuring the same main character. Ant is ignoring his tea brewing duties and working on Petunia Pickle's Pumkin Peril, where you play a witch who has to defend her
Graham has started working on a Snail's Tale, and there's bound to be a sequel to The Bear Essentials at some point. Roy has a lot of great projects in the works, including Humpy. I'm hoping to do an extended version of or sequel to Goblin, and maybe finish some of my old projects. Check out Pond Software at: pondsoft.uk
The Bear Essentials Bear has been lazy all summer long and winter is approaching fast. He must collect enough fruit to survive the long winter or face the wrath of Mrs. Bear. The game is a platformer where you got to collect 326 apples over six stages. Enemies are other animals and all it takes is one touch and your character loses one of his five lives. While the enemy AI is simple, they just follow a pattern, it is still fun trying to get past them to reach the apples. Some apples are difficult to get due to their location and does involve a bit of thinking. Pond Software released a boxed copy for ÂŁ15 Sterling which includes the game on a 5.25 inch disk, an A5 jewel case, cover inlay and a 12 page colour manual with stickers. See their website for details. A very enjoyable game to play, bundled in cuteness. Well worth checking out.
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