Poet's Classic Games and Mods Forum

A Doll's House v2.00. DosBox NOT necessary.

Admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:49:13 GMT

http://home.online.no/~p-olstad/wolfenstein/dollshouse.html

UhD

Admin — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:34:16 GMT

Uhyrenes Dal (UhD).

Find info about this project, screenshots and the single player level ready for download here:

http://home.online.no/~p-olstad/uhd/index.html

Be sure to read the txt file included in the download for additional info.

Bouncing Projectile

zdude — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:15:33 GMT

What's the piece of code you used to create the bouncing plasma ball? That projectile intrigued me.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and how did you do the non-linear floors codewise?

Wolf-Extra screenshots

Admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:22:40 GMT

Here are screenshots from Wolf-Extra, Enemy Around the Corner and Wolf-Extra II:

http://www.geocities.com/p_olstad/wolfxtra/wolfxtra_images.html

Enjoy

Do you use ambush tiles very much when designing levels?

Agent87 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:17:05 GMT

I was wondering how often you use ambush (deaf guard) tiles. When I design levels, I put them only on the Death Incarnate difficulty level unless I feel like being particularly nasty to the player in that level.

When do you use them? I just thought I'd generate some discussion here...

New project. Needs music.

Admin — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:32:20 GMT

Hello.

I need new music for my upcoming game "Ghosts". Not being a composer I need someone to supply me with it. :-)

"Ghosts" will be based on the "Doll's House" engine and graphics. But unlike "A Doll's House" which has 5 non-linear floors, "Ghosts" will have 13 levels.

Poet.

A Doll's House screenshots

Admin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:05:24 GMT

Find screenshots form A Doll's House here:

http://www.geocities.com/p_olstad/dollshouse/dollshouse_images.html

Please note: There are NO spoilers in the screenshots!

Wolf Hour screenshots

Admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:45:56 GMT

http://www.geocities.com/p_olstad/wolfhour/wolfhour_images.html

The Tower screenshots

Admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:34:54 GMT

Find screenshots from The Tower here:

http://www.geocities.com/p_olstad/tower/tower_images.html

Alone in the Dark screenshots

Admin — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:48:36 GMT

I have taken many nice screenshots from Alone in the Dark (1).

Find them here:

http://www.geocities.com/p_olstad/alone/alone_images.html

Enjoy. :-)

Veil of Darkness

Admin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:39:42 GMT

Veil of Darkness (1993) is one of my all time favourite games. Even back in the good old early '90s a game as good as this was rare! It combines adventure, action and great puzzles.

The game feels very much like a classic mystery/horror film with emphasis on atmosphere and suggestiveness with lots of interesting characters, suspense, action, humour, mystery and romance.

It uses an isometric engine giving it a semi 3D feel with great graphics and music.

If I were to add a few words ...

Ghosts: A Doll's House add-on. Level designers wanted.

Admin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:17:33 GMT

The main idea behind this project is to have people contributing levels to A Dolls' House add-on. "Ghosts" includes all features from A Doll's House but it has 13 seamless levels (though this number may change) unlike A Doll's House which has 5 non-linear floors. The idea is that each contributor makes one level, but if anyone wants to make more levels then that is very fine too of course. I myself plan to make at least one level, the boss level. In Ghosts the player will start every ...

A Doll's House add-ons

Admin — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:24:11 GMT

If anybody wants to make add-ons to A Doll's House, and personally I would like to see that , then I can supply the Mapedit 84 definition files in addition to some necessary info.

The idea would be to have add-ons made that uses the same engine and graphics as A Doll's House.

I will post any add-ons made at my site, and needless to say I would look forward to playing them myself.

My Descent II missions

Admin — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:47:52 GMT

Find my add-on missions to Descent II here:

http://home.online.no/~p-olstad/descent/d2addons.html

Alone in the Dark

Admin — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:29:44 GMT

The original Alone in the Dark (1992) is one of the most memorable games ever made. It is a perfect blend of action, adventure and puzzle solving with very atmospheric graphics, sound effects and music.

The game uses a 3rd person 3D engine with fixed camera angles. Some people used to complain that the camera angles sometimes were rather "awkward" during battle. Personally I only found this to add to the claustrophobic feeling and challenge of the game.

The game was based ...

NewCosmo3

Admin — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:38:50 GMT

NewCosmo3 is my add-on episode to Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure.

NewCosmo3 uses themes and features from all three original episodes but will only run with cosmo3.exe.

For more info and the download go here:

http://home.online.no/~p-olstad/apogee/cosmo.html

This is the only additional episode in existence!

Welcome to the forum

Admin — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:47:06 GMT

Hello. And welcome to this forum.

At this forum I have, as you can see, listed several classic games that, in addition to being among my all time favourites, also can be said to loosely fit into what we might call an arcade/action/adventure category. I have also added a couple of games that I have not played myself but which I know are among many people's favourites. If you want more games added let me know.

What do I mean by a classic? Roughly speaking I have so far been thinking ...

Using DOSBox

Schabbs — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:30:35 GMT

I was playing 'A Doll's House' with VDMSound but kept getting the game freezing when a big guy fired green blobs.

However, since I read your note regarding the game working with DosBox, I tried it with that instead and it worked perfectly. I'm now looking forward to playing the rest of the game. It's very good so far with graphics and code changes not seen elsewhere and it's well put together.

Violence in games

Admin — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:41:21 GMT

Many computer games are criticised for the amount of violence they include. I shall very briefly state my point of view.

All through the ages, and in different cultures, fighting evil for the sake of what is good, and to protect the innocent, has been considered a virtue. And the very nature of evil has made it necessary to use harsh means. In legends and folk tales from all over the world we find heroes who do this. They are regarded as heroes first of all because they protect all that ...

Action Adventure Games

Admin — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:49:20 GMT

Games of this genre may be based on a lot of different software engines, they can therefore be very different in many respects. What they have in common though is that they require both puzzle solving abilities and manual dexterity of the player. In addition they have a strong emphasis on adventure and story telling.

To me these are what I will call complete games. That is when we talk about games of an adventurous nature (not card games, board games or pure puzzle games). Games of this ...