Eggit

This is my final Amos game, my best one but unfinished due to lack of plot. Eggit is platform puzzle game in the style of Dizzy, by Codemasters. Its features include a map, save/load game, custom palettes for each screen, demo mode, and loads of hidden stuff.

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Eggit (aka Stephen Edgar) was a friend in school, he pretended to be pissed off with being portrayed as a sarcastic egg at first but he really liked the attention, he helped playtest and came up with ideas for the game. Sadly, Eggit can’t be with us today, but he’ll be remembered forever.

The game does lack an end, its big enough to end it where it is and the toolset is there, I just ran out of ideas. If a single person gets past the fires in the underground caves and past the guard in the castle in the clouds (WITHOUT CHEATING) then I’ll write an ending.

2024 note: This offer has stood unclaimed for 25 years, so I’m retracting it!

I’m well proud of this game because I “invented” loads of stuff, like:

• using the highest plane in the 32 colour screen as solid, 0-15 are background colours while 16-31 are stuff you can walk on.
• putting all the input in to a function, then developing it for keyboard/joystick, custom keys, and eventually for “demo mode” recording and playback.
• that cool map screen that shrinks (and saves to disk) all the rooms where you’ve already been.
• custom palettes for dark rooms, but all of them are compatible with the original one (so you can use your torch to discover stuff). This was inspired by seascape by Electronic Arts.
• completely lazy method of loading/making screens - they’re saved from Deluxe Paint as 32 colour IFFs. Sooo fast! A new screen was pasted together from the last in less than five minutes, seriously, a 600 seconds five minutes. The game is huge because of this. Maybe it’s too big, but I can fill in some of the empty bits later on. (spoiler: I didn’t)

You can download the game here