Mystery of the Dark Manor, a 1992 Amstrad text adventure, released to Android
-
Hi all
I just wanted to let people know that I have ported another one of my father's games, Mystery of the Dark Manor, to Android devices. This uses the same engine that was programmed for Moonbase 3 so should provide a consistent user experience.
Mystery of the Dark Manor was originally released in the UK in 1992.
Its features include:
* Different font sizes
* Text to speech
* Speech input
* Android gestures to swipe the screen when moving in the different compass directions
Based on feedback from people I have made some updates to Moonbase 3.
As such both games now include:
* more helpful information when starting
* training video (more for those not overly familiar with text adventure games)
* autosave
* save/load game lists are timestamped and sorted by most recent saved first
* bug fixes
The demo for both games link here:
https://market.android.com/details?id=Mystery.demo
https://market.android.com/details?id=Moonbase3.demo
The full versions link here:
https://market.android.com/details?id=Mystery.Complete
https://market.android.com/details?id=Moonbase3.Complete
I appreciate the feedback people give to me on these games, it has helped make them better.
Kind regards
Mark Eaton -
Sorry Jacobself, never heard of that one :-)
Generally to port a game we would need the source code. I still have the source code for the games my dad created so that's why I'm able to port them to Android.
I've still got a few of his games left to port over so I'll be busy for a while (plus I do this part time outside of my fulltime job).
Hopefully another programmer can do it for you :-)
Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
