My baby
Good afternoon folks, My name is Jake Thomas and I am a programmer by trade, I work at a university so all of my programs are VERY boring. I am not a game developer in the slightest, nor artist. I have never made a game before and all of my experience is in very boring apps made with typescript and php. I have started this project may times over the years, but they always fell short. Like a lot of you, I was an obsessed 13 year old computer nerd in 1995. To say the series had an everlasting impression was an understatement. I always wanted more...fast forward to last week, as I was counting pixels in the text of a font I was trying to replicate I saw Rick Sada as the programmer. Never had it occured to me that he was even still alive, so I looked him up and was shocked to not only see he was alive but was ACTIVELY working on a port via Reddit! I will admit I have never used reddit before and was overjoyed to find an entire community!
All that long winded introduction to say here is a game that I had no intention of anyone else playing. I wrote it in typescript and a demo is almost ready. It is fully playable now in the browser, but there are a few bugs and some unfinished content. The engine itself is complete though, I actually ended up making a typescript sprite mapper, a town editor/creator and a cutscene maker. I know those tools probably exist....but it was an adventure! I added some screenshots if anyone is interested. I tried to make a 1:1 copy of the originals in every way, my process was basically working with the limitations of the mid 90's in mind. All of the original systems are there and I may have snuck in some new ones....
EDITED to add this is a sequel not a remake.
