Comments on: Creepy ecological parable Archipelagos remade for mobiles

By: Touch Sensitive

Touch Sensitive — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:14:00 +0000

Ouch, I thought of Sentinel the second I saw the article.

One of the strangest games I purchased for the Playstation (PSX).

Not the game itself, but the idea of buying such a ‘basic’ game for a console like the Playstation (PSX).

It seemed so at odds with the other mainstream titles on the shelf.

Looking forward to trying this particular title out on Android.

By: bloodybl

bloodybl — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:37:00 +0000

I played this game on the Amiga, I really loved it’s eerie music and gameplay. I don’t know where you got the idea that the trees only moved when you weren’t looking at them though. I distinctly remember watching one move closer to me every time it sank into the ground.

By: Jonathan Dowland

Jonathan Dowland — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:44:00 +0000

I’d love a Babel remake for *any* platform!

By: Frédéric Donckels

Frédéric Donckels — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 07:49:00 +0000

I would love a remake of Tower of Babel for Android

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:41:00 +0000

Totally!

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:33:00 +0000

Just what I was thinking – I’ve never played Archipelago but it sounds like spiritual kin to Sentinel. I spent many tense hours playing that one on the C64.

There was a PC remake many years ago. I remember that (like Archipelago) they went for the more polished graphical style possible on modern computers, and lost a bit of atmosphere because of that.

I guess I just like very stripped down diagramatic looking games. I should probably time travel back to the Amiga era…

By: Jorpho

Jorpho — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:05:00 +0000

Loses something without that flat-shaded polygons, doesn’t it?

By: Talia

Talia — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Amiga was my first computer. I had, and enjoyed, this game. I vaguely seem to recall it had pretty cool music or sound effects, too. Glad to see it getting a second life. :)

By: Dave Lloyd

Dave Lloyd — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:56:00 +0000

ITYM Zarch which was written by Dave Braben (of Elite) as the release game for the Acorn Archimedes (the first computer to use the ARM) which was then ported by Jez San (of Argonaut) to the Amiga…

By: Chris Drouin

Chris Drouin — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:09:00 +0000

Well, I worked on something like this in my college days:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/petrified
(There’s still a server out there for it, if there’s any interest I can post a link)

By: Dr_Wadd

Dr_Wadd — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:44:00 +0000

Does the remake have the periodic deliberate maps as opposed to the majority procedurally generated ones? I seem to recall the original had a level where the map was the British Isles, and another based on the credits to Eastenders.