retroillucid Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 After 40 years of wait, we've decided to tackle this project! With Dracula, we're going with something different We're building the game in a 3D environment To my knowledge, it's the first time this technique is ever used for a ColecoVision game. Dracula is probably be going to be part of our Experience Club in the near future In the meantime, here's a few works in progress screens ''Your vision is our vision'' 25 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youki Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Again very impressive. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dutch Colecovision Fan Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 This looks awesome (for some reason I have just bitten in my tongue ?). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted February 14, 2022 Author Share Posted February 14, 2022 Here's how we're building each room in the game 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 I used to be impressed by the screenshots of this game in the magazines back in the day. I've only learned recently that it never got released! It would be great to finally see it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Are you sure you're not doing Dragon's Lair here? That's the first words that came to my mind when I saw the "crypt" screenshot, if that's indeed a room inside a crypt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted February 14, 2022 Author Share Posted February 14, 2022 35 minutes ago, Pixelboy said: Are you sure you're not doing Dragon's Lair here? That's the first words that came to my mind when I saw the "crypt" screenshot, if that's indeed a room inside a crypt. Hahaha, there's certainly a bit of inspiration taken from Dragon's Lair on the ADAM That's the kind of graphics we would have seen if Coleco didn't abandoned the video game business More storage mean more detailed graphics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Bill Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Omg! That’s outstanding! Ive wanted this title ever since first seeing it on the box. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyzzle Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 (edited) Astounding! About how many "rooms" will the full game have? You'll have to use some impressive graphics-compression technology to fit a lot in, especially if all the rooms are hand-drawn. No doubt it will be a 512 kb game. (I don't think a 1 MB game is possible with SGM on Colecovision?). I hope wish you the best of success in completing the game. Edited February 16, 2022 by zyzzle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoGamer Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 It looks fantastIc! I’m just curious how good the Coleco controllers would be in an isometric game environment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 8 hours ago, ColecoGamer said: It looks fantastIc! I’m just curious how good the Coleco controllers would be in an isometric game environment. They would perform no worse than in Congo Bongo, I would guess. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginalJohn Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Is this inspired by Scott Adams 'The Count'? I remember sitting there with my friend on a vic 20 increasingly getting nervous and frantic discussing the next command. We never knew if the next time we pressed 'enter' would end with 'the count' getting us and GAME OVER. Fun times. GET SHEETS, GET UP, N, W, GO DUMB-WAITER, RAISE DUMB-WAITER (heh) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted February 16, 2022 Author Share Posted February 16, 2022 17 hours ago, zyzzle said: Astounding! About how many "rooms" will the full game have? You'll have to use some impressive graphics-compression technology to fit a lot in, especially if all the rooms are hand-drawn. No doubt it will be a 512 kb game. (I don't think a 1 MB game is possible with SGM on Colecovision?). I hope wish you the best of success in completing the game. The game should have 30 to 40 rooms It will run on a plain vanilla Colecovision, without the use of the SuperGame Module 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted February 16, 2022 Author Share Posted February 16, 2022 4 hours ago, OriginalJohn said: Is this inspired by Scott Adams 'The Count'? I remember sitting there with my friend on a vic 20 increasingly getting nervous and frantic discussing the next command. We never knew if the next time we pressed 'enter' would end with 'the count' getting us and GAME OVER. Fun times. GET SHEETS, GET UP, N, W, GO DUMB-WAITER, RAISE DUMB-WAITER (heh) I was not aware of that game, looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+moycon Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Very cool looking game! I've always been impressed with the Colecovision graphics. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serguei2 Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 On 2/14/2022 at 2:51 PM, retroillucid said: After 40 years of wait, we've decided to tackle this project! With Dracula, we're going with something different We're building the game in a 3D environment To my knowledge, it's the first time this technique is ever used for a ColecoVision game. Dracula is probably be going to be part of our Experience Club in the near future In the meantime, here's a few works in progress screens ''Your vision is our vision'' Was Dracula released on other systems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted March 16, 2022 Author Share Posted March 16, 2022 4 hours ago, Serguei2 said: Was Dracula released on other systems? No, Dracula has never been developed by Coleco It has been confirmed by a former Coleco employee The only thing that was made is the mockup/flyer (done with Pantone paper) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serguei2 Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 1 hour ago, retroillucid said: No, Dracula has never been developed by Coleco It has been confirmed by a former Coleco employee The only thing that was made is the mockup/flyer (done with Pantone paper) Interesting. I just played the prototype. Is there other screens besides the bedroom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, Serguei2 said: Interesting. I just played the prototype. Is there other screens besides the bedroom? Do you mean the 2010 mock-up by CollectorVision? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serguei2 Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Just now, Ikrananka said: Do you mean the 2010 mock-up by CollectorVision? Dracula the prototype. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 1 minute ago, Serguei2 said: Dracula the prototype. Wasn't aware there was a prototype? Where is this available (please don't say FB)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ikrananka Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Yes, that's the 2010 still screen mock-up that J-F showcased in that thread. As far as I'm aware that's all there is to it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serguei2 Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 9 minutes ago, Ikrananka said: Yes, that's the 2010 still screen mock-up that J-F showcased in that thread. As far as I'm aware that's all there is to it. Is the flyer a mock-up too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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