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Post by ralf on Dec 31, 2017 11:06:29 GMT
Hello everybody. My name is Rafał Miazga, known as Ralf on some Spectrum forums. I'd like to submit my game to this compo. The game is ready, I worked on it in privacy without giving much info to the world I was writing a longer post but I lost it so it will be short, I'll add details later. The game is called Wunderwaffe which is "wonder weapon" in German. You are and Allied undercover agent, disguised as Nazi officer. Your job is to get into Nazi underground base and recover secret documents. Disclaimer for dummies - you are not a Nazi, you are disguised as a Nazi. Nazis are bad guys, you kill them - if your law, religion, morality or stepmother forbids you to play game with Nazi symbols just don't play it and don't moan The game is inspired by Polish game for Atari 8-bit computer called Hans Kloss. I'll write about this inspiration more later: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl8f5oEETzUIt's a very loose inspiration. Think of it as a total remake or reimagining. Admins, if I don't meet some rules of the compo let me know and maybe we can do something about it. The download (game with instruction):www.sendspace.com/file/61lhchHave fun and happy new year everybody!
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Post by Admin on Dec 31, 2017 12:05:15 GMT
Hi Ralf! Welcome here, or should I say Wilkommen? Nice one, I am happy that you decided to participate, and surely the game looks really intriguing, and... already finished!!!!! Wow,I should try it soon! Dont worry about the rules, your game is inspired by that Hans Kloss one, and they certainly look similar, and the compo allows inspirations so it is totally legal I will try it later, thanks!
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Post by ralf on Dec 31, 2017 14:20:08 GMT
More info about the inspiration: So there is Atari 8-bit Polish game called Hans Kloss. Hans Kloss was a hero of Polish TV series from the 60s called "Stawka Większa niż Życie" - something like "More Than Life at Stake" in English www.imdb.com/title/tt0065035/?ref_=nv_sr_1It was very popular in Poland and this popularity survived into 90s when some young guys made a game about it on Atari, totally without any copyrights dealt with;) The Atari game is very loosely tied to the film, it's actually completely new story, connected just by the hero. So my game is loosely inspired by Atari game which is loosely inspired by the film I added shooting soldiers, more detailed backgrounds and lots of other stuff but the main ideas are the same - explore Nazi base, travel by lifts, collect keys, food and documents. I considered calling it Hans Kloss, just like the original but people are today really obsessive about copyrights and I don't want some dummy to start a shitstorm that I don't have rights to use this name. So it's officially Wunderwaffe about some anonymous guy
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Post by michellekg on Jan 3, 2018 2:55:41 GMT
Ralf, thanks for the game! Actually, maybe it deserves the status of a "true conversion" more than any other entries.
Because "Stawka Większa niż Życie" is adaptation of a Soviet movie "Away from the Motherland", which is adaptation of a book "And one in the field is a warrior" ("One man army"?).
So there's 5 (!) elements in this conversion chain: book -> movie -> tv show -> atari 8-bit game -> your game.
Nice!
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