Acorn Arcade forums: News and features: Repton 3 lives on!
Posted by Richard Goodwin on 13:42, 29/5/2002
| Games, RISC OS
We just received an email from old Acorn enthusiast Tom Godber about a new product from Masabi, a company founded by him and another Acorn enthusiast, which has signed a deal with Superior Software to convert Repton 3 to next generation mobile phones and connected PDAs. He says: " Our aim is to give the core game away for free, making it as easy as possible to pass between friends, and charge a micropayment (less than the cost of a ringtone for current phones) per level and/or sprite set ('skin' seems to be the current trendy layman-friendly name), releasing all 144 levels from Repton 3, Around the World in 40 Screens, Life of Repton and Repton Thru Time with the original Archimedes graphics (to make use of the increased colour depth on these new phones).
"On top of this we'll be providing web-based level and sprite editors so anyone can create them for their friends or publish them to the whole community, and other things that can only be achieved in an online environment like leaderboards based round speed records for levels, single session high scores etc."Other titles such as Thrust, Pipeline and Ravenskull are also being looked into for a one-off price. Link: http://www.masabi.com/
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(14:08 29/5/2002) Jason Tribbeck (14:44 29/5/2002) Guest (14:45 29/5/2002) Rich Goodwin (09:28 30/5/2002) Guest (11:41 30/5/2002) Guest (23:43 30/5/2002) Guest (16:28 31/5/2002) Guest (22:41 31/5/2002) Guest (10:49 5/6/2002) Guest (10:18 19/6/2002) Nathan Walker (09:39 20/6/2002) Andrew Weston (14:14 20/6/2002) Andrew Weston (15:20 20/6/2002) Anonymous (13:54 21/6/2002) Charles Taylor (09:10 17/10/2002)
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Message #87436, posted at 14:08, 29/5/2002 |
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Exile - somebody mention this to Peter Irvin! |
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Jason Tribbeck |
Message #87437, posted at 14:44, 29/5/2002, in reply to message #87436 |
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And Starship Command... |
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Message #87438, posted at 14:45, 29/5/2002, in reply to message #87437 |
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Interesting yes! |
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Rich Goodwin |
Message #87439, posted at 09:28, 30/5/2002, in reply to message #87438 |
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If you can think of any other Superior Software titles that might go well on a smartphone, Masabi are interested in hearing your thoughts... |
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Message #87440, posted at 11:41, 30/5/2002, in reply to message #87439 |
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how do they hear 'em Rich? |
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Message #87441, posted at 23:43, 30/5/2002, in reply to message #87440 |
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This really does sound amazing. Let's hope it works out! |
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Message #87442, posted at 16:28, 31/5/2002, in reply to message #87441 |
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Strykers Run !?! |
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Message #87443, posted at 22:41, 31/5/2002, in reply to message #87442 |
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I'm just waiting on Mr.Jeffries for that one. :) Andrew |
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Message #87444, posted at 10:49, 5/6/2002, in reply to message #87443 |
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Hi There, Masabi can be contacted tom@masabi.com or ed@masabi.com |
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Message #87445, posted at 10:18, 19/6/2002, in reply to message #87444 |
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I reckon that boxing wallaby game, can't remember it's exact title though. I used to waste entire days playing it on my BBC master before I sold it. Another one that would go REALLY well is AirLift. that wee game where you bomb the tanks and rescue the hostages, can't remember if Superior published it or not. Catcha, Ben B. |
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Nathan Walker |
Message #87446, posted at 09:39, 20/6/2002, in reply to message #87445 |
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Funnily enough, GEK started writing a new version of AirLift called Chop-X. There are three levels and it is really good. Unfortunately it was a tad difficult to create levels so it's sat on a shelf with our Scotland colleague. |
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Andrew Weston |
Message #87447, posted at 14:14, 20/6/2002, in reply to message #87446 |
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Hmmm.....
I only ever sit on the fence ;) |
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Andrew Weston |
Message #87448, posted at 15:20, 20/6/2002, in reply to message #87447 |
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Bloody hell, you didn't mean me.
<retreats dragging size 12s with him> |
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Anonymous |
Message #87449, posted at 13:54, 21/6/2002, in reply to message #87448 |
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Godber, Fletcher back to your cell at the double!!!!! |
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Charles Taylor |
Message #87450, posted at 09:10, 17/10/2002, in reply to message #87449 |
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I'ts even made it into the news:
See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2207229.stm
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