Review PC Gamer Retrospective Review - Fountain of Dreams

[Deuce Traveler]

What a coincidence... this game was the one CRPG Addict just reviewed upon his return: http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/search/label/Fountain of Dreams

 

[Gragt]

Fargo just told me that both Fountain of Dreams and Escape from Hell (both 1990) built their own engine and didn't use Wasteland's, since "the Wasteland engine could barely be called an engine with all the hand coding you had to do."

So EFH and FOD look and feel similar to WL but they do not use the same code? That’s interesting….

 

[Crooked Bee]

Fargo just told me that both Fountain of Dreams and Escape from Hell (both 1990) built their own engine and didn't use Wasteland's, since "the Wasteland engine could barely be called an engine with all the hand coding you had to do."

So EFH and FOD look and feel similar to WL but they do not use the same code? That’s interesting….

Yeah, but note that Fargo does not 100% exclude the possibility of some of the source code having been used. Assuming one of our upcoming retrospective interviews doesn't fall through, we might get to know more about that.

 

[tuluse]

Yeah, but note that Fargo does not 100% exclude the possibility of some of the source code having been used. Assuming one of our upcoming retrospective interviews doesn't fall through, we might get to know more about that.

Imagine if you uncover the truth and Herve sues EA over the source

What a coincidence... this game was the one CRPG Addict just reviewed upon his return: http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/search/label/Fountain of Dreams

I must concur with Scorpia's comment in her January 1991 review: "It is the perfect example of grasping the form, but not the substance, of a superior product, and coming up a loser."

Roguey were you Scorpia in another life?

 

[Sceptic]

Roguey were you Scorpia in another life?

wat

 

[FeelTheRads]

Roguey has some dedicated admirers.

 

[Infinitron]

Roguey were you Scorpia in another life?

wat

Psst, it's Roguey's whole "cargo cult" thing. It's very similar to what Scorpia is saying there. Form, but not substance. Cargo cult.

Imagine if you uncover the truth and Herve sues EA over the source

Well EA published Wasteland so they may have been allowed to do that anyway?

 

[Crooked Bee]

Well EA published Wasteland so they may have been allowed to do that anyway?

I think tuluse was referring to the Fargo quote I posted earlier ITT:

I think that we would have had to have been paid royalties if they did use our code and they are likely to a wanted to avoid that.

 

[Roguey]

Roguey were you Scorpia in another life?

Scorpia trolling Jon Van Caneghem so hard over M&MII that he included her as a fat, ugly monster in III was a thing of beauty.