Hello folks. Mr. Newton says he isn't able add this project as a download , but he's willing to let me post the announcemet here because its definitely klik-related. Here's my download description (including a link to my site, where you can download the preview). Maybe someday it'll hit the news.
I consider it an atrocity against the legally blind community that you require screenshots! . . . Er, maybe that's getting off on the wrong foot, just hear me out, because I believe this is completely unprecedented in klik history.
This is the first project I've ever posted, although I've enjoyed klik games for many years, ever since I found Choppy the Pork Chop on a shovelware CD in 1997. Lots of games have come and gone since then--surely all of you longtime members have a few old favorites that have faded or been lost. The Pea-Guy series by Astral Entertainment has held a special place on my hard drive for a long time now. You don't know Pea-Guy? When the first game was released (in 1996), it was called "Pac-Guy" and became a popular and prolific KnP series. The first ten games were combined as "The Pac Pack" and met with a BIG success in the retail market--over a quarter of a million were sold. Unfortunately, the publisher dropped the Pac Pack when Hasbro Interactive went on a foxing rampage against Webfoot over the Pac-Man trademark (not very nice). Since then, the series has only limped along with several more commercial games; Pac-Guy became Pea-Guy in hopes that Astral wouldn't get foxed as well.
"What's this?" say you, "Why does this filthy nEWb talk our ears off so? Does he really think we care about the obscure history behind his dumb demo?" "Ah," says I, "but now that other classic games have been made into movies, isn't it about time a klik game got the works?"
I may exaggerate a bit, since this isn't exactly a movie. It's a feature-length radiodrama ("audiomovies," they're sometimes called) adapted from the game "Pac-Guy: Resurrection." My hope is that it will be funny and exciting, enjoyable for the whole family. I've been working on this a long time, but this past year it was finally produced at the College of William and Mary. Here's the demo/trailer; the finished product should be done by the end of the summer. I know it's not what you'd expect to see on TDC, but it IS an offshoot of a klik game franchise. So please, listen to it and comment, try not to be put off by the whole "aural drama" thing, and enjoy!
If you go to the website at www.pea-guyradioplay.com you can download both trailer and the game it's based on in the Downloads section, and read about the project.
In the country of the blind, a good wumpus-hunt will beat the better graphics every time . . .
Sorry about not putting breaks in. I must get used to hitting enter TWICE, not once. I attribute it to too much time in Word and not enough time in forums.
The Pac-Guy/Pea-Guy games can be downloaded at www.astralent.com, the website of Astral Entertainment Five are freeware, and several others are shareware, although only one or two shareware games used MMF before they moved on to DarkBASIC. I'm glad some people have responded here; there seems to be a general lack of interest in the project on the net. In addition to your views on the trailer, any ideas how I could spread the word and get more people interested?
In the country of the blind, a good wumpus-hunt will beat the better graphics every time . . .
Listen, fellows, I really don't like to be a nag, but has anybody even listened to the trailer or looked at my website? Why is it that so few people respond?--this is kind of an unusual event in klik history. I can't figure out why there is such a complete lack of interest, both here and on other sites. Why do you suppose that is? Please, let's hear your views, folks. I'm going to talk with the potential publisher again in a couple of weeks, and it won't be in my favor if almost nobody is interested in aural drama.
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Any other blind klikers out there?!?
In the country of the blind, a good wumpus-hunt will beat the better graphics every time . . .