Flood II animations from 1992 (not Spectrum!).

Mark R. Jones

Here's a video of some animations & graphics I did for a game called 'Flood 2' in 1992 which I was making for a company called 'Bullfrog'. It was never finished but the graphics, which I hadn't seen for nearly 20 years have all been salvaged from the discs. The video shows various nasties, objects, a look through the l...evel map and various speech bubbles that were to be used in the game. At the end is my animation of 'Kuato' from the game of 'Total Recall'. All these graphics were made on an Atari St and were filmed on my phone camera from a PC running an ST emulator.

Thanks to Jim Bagley for salvaging the files for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85lLgIY8h0Q

BiNMaN

what art package is that running on?

would fraps have worked instead of using your phone? It records whatever image is on the pc screen.

kgmcneil

..I don't believe it!!.. I was looking at information on this very topic just last night?!!!... I was wondering what the Flood sprites might look like if ported to the ZX, when I came across a thread on Flood 2 (below):

http://gtwportal.retro-net.de/2009/05/03/the-story-of-flood-2/

...I can't believe my good luck in timing!...

I can't wait to see the sprite sheets... And I for one will certainly "Watch this space"...

Thanks Mark, for sharing a facinating glimpse of gaming history with us!

Mark R. Jones

BiNMaN wrote: »

what art package is that running on?

would fraps have worked instead of using your phone? It records whatever image is on the pc screen.

It's running on Oceans in-house Sprite and Map Editor "Fud-Ed" written by John Brandwood. Not sure if that's ever been salvaged from an old Ocean disc before. I shall have to ask!

Does Fraps record moving images? I don 't really use a PC anymore and had to borrow one to get the ST emulator running.

BiNMaN

Mark R Jones wrote: »

It's running on Oceans in-house Sprite and Map Editor "Fud-Ed" written by John Brandwood. Not sure if that's ever been salvaged from an old Ocean disc before. I shall have to ask!

Does Fraps record moving images? I don 't really use a PC anymore and had to borrow one to get the ST emulator running.

yeh it does on pc, dunno if they do it for the mac it basically will record whatever is on the screen I think it's used to record demo's of games

Mark R. Jones

Ugh, well I tried it and the 'HOTKEY' doesnt seem to be doing anything. Won't even save a screen!

fog

thats pretty good.. looks / reminds me a bit like a cross between zool and silly putty.. or even mayhem in monsterland on c64.

you could use snagit.. to do capture in future.. there prolly is a mac package, a friend would know what it's called ..

http://www.techsmith.com/snagitmac/

snagit's on a mac now.. well beta anyway

kgmcneil

Thanks so much Mark for dumping the files on

http://gtwportal.retro-net.de/2009/05/03/the-story-of-flood-2/

(Direct Download: http://gtwportal.retro-net.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/flood2-bits.zip )

...Anyone interested in viewing these files might want to use something like STeem, from http://steem.atari.st/steem_v3_2.zip

I configured it to read a PC folder as an ST drive and simply dumped the files there...

Using the editors themselves, there is some scope for then dumping the sprites and maps to screen as .NEO images, which can then be converted to .BMP using something like the following viewer:

http://dahstra.rksmithfamily.net/spectrum/zip/stviewer_v0.27_06062001.zip

..Unfortunately, the editor tends to cut off anything that extends beyond the screens boundaries, so another option for grabbing the graphics might be to use STeem's own screen grabbing function, and then restitching the grabbed images back together again...

..something Ill be tempted to do myself when I have some time...

omega

Should not be hard to convert those files to zx friendly format.
It has 4 independent bitplanes. This is how it looks in hexpad.

mile

flood was a great little game.

was the main character called 'spliffy' or something.

BiNMaN

mile wrote: »

was the main character called 'spliffy' or something.

tsk,tsk trust you!!

Mark R. Jones

Quiffy!

merman

Fascinating to watch... love those 90s style cartoon eyes with big white pupils

mile

merman wrote: »

Fascinating to watch... love those 90s style cartoon eyes with big white pupils

prolly why he was called spliffy

Mark R. Jones

Here's some other stuff. 'Caspar The Ironlord' started out on the Spectrum. Then I copied the graphics over to the ST (by drawing them onto graph paper) then coloured them in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTTEZpbxJcg

And here's my FLOOD 2 album on FB. There's some more salvaged stuff at the end:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=34712&id=720372523&l=c0f632e9bc