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Dungeon Master (video Game)
''Dungeon Master'' is a role-playing video game featuring a 2.5D, pseudo-3D First-person (video games), first-person perspective. It was developed and published by FTL Games for the Atari ST in 1987, almost identical Amiga and MS-DOS, PC (DOS) ports following in 1988 and 1992. ''Dungeon Master'' sold 40,000 copies in its year of release alone, and went on to become the ST's best-selling game of all time. The game became the prototype for the genre of the 3D dungeon crawlers with notable Video game clone, clones like ''Eye of the Beholder (video game), Eye of the Beholder''. Gameplay In contrast to the traditional turn-based game, turn-based approach that was, in 1987, most common, ''Dungeon Master'' added real-time combat elements (akin to Active Time Battle). Other factors in immersion were the use of sound effects to indicate when a creature was nearby, and (primitive) dynamic lighting. Abstract ''Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons'' style experience points and levels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FTL Games
FTL Games (Faster Than Light) was the video game developer, video game development division of Software Heaven Inc. FTL created several popular video games in the 1980s. Despite the company's small size, FTL products were consistently number-one sellers and received the highest critical acclaim and industry awards. FTL was founded by Wayne Holder in 1982. Holder started Software Heaven and FTL as its game division after founding Oasis Systems, which specialized in Spell checker, spell checking software. He hired Bruce Webster, with whom he graduated from high school, to head FTL. After Webster left FTL in 1984, Doug Bell (game designer), Doug Bell joined FTL and served as the Technical Director until FTL ceased operations in 1996. The games FTL released several games throughout its relatively short history. Most went on to become best sellers and some even set new standards for games of their genres. ''SunDog'' Holder and Webster co-designed FTL's first game, ''SunDog: Frozen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |