Xbox Arcade Crystal Quest Maker Interviewed 35
Xbox Live Arcade is, so far, the easiest thing to point to as a complete success for the Xbox 360. The number of excellent games (some of them quite original) released for the service since the system's launch is very impressive. Gamecloud has an interview with Patrick Buckland, founder of Stainless Games. Stainless created Crystal Quest, the most recent addition to the Xbox Live Arcade. From the article: "Gamecloud - How did using the Xbox 360 Live Arcade to distribute the game come about? Patrick Buckland - It's a marriage made in heaven. We are going to do a downloadable PC version as well, but you get into the whole piracy issue again. Xbox 360 Live Arcade is just SO perfect for classic games - and for new games as well, as you'll see in the future from Stainless."
Easy game. (Score:2, Informative)
Going for high scores isn't that much fun either, since you camp again, just on the hardest difficulty.
ObPA (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Crytal Quest has been defiled! (Score:1)
Can't you just accept that MS may actually do something right? I have thoroughly enjoyed my Xbox and still am. I don't own a Xbox 360 yet, but eventually will. It is nice to see something new in the console world, to shake things up. It was getting rather static with just Sorny and Nintendo.
The Xbox platform is a great one. Such that if you are a gamer on a budget or limited time, it is perfectly fine to only own. It more than can hold its ground in that aspe
Re:Crytal Quest has been defiled! (Score:1)
Re:Crytal Quest has been defiled! (Score:1)
Re:Crytal Quest has been defiled! (Score:2)
Re:Crytal Quest has been defiled! (Score:1)
so basically it's yay for microsft because they made a console which was hacked easily and turned to uses it wasnt designed for and that their profits are being sucked away by their attempts to rule the console wars? uh huh?
Re:Crytal Quest has been defiled! (Score:2)
Seriously though, I'm way tired of Macintosh users acting like Apple is the only good in the world and Microsoft is evil. If Apple had come out on top, and Microsoft had been #2, we'd all be locked into super-propri
Re:Mac Users? (Score:2)
I'm not sure if you know this...but the Xbox has just about the best performance/dollar ratio you can find.
The original Xbox was a fantastic value, and so is the 360.
It is actually smart to buy one if you can re-purpose it to something else. That is why people are emphasizing the fact that they do not purchase games- which is where Microsoft makes the money to (theoretically) offset the loss they take on the hardware.
(Using your car/furniture an
Re:Mac Users? (Score:2)
I'm sorry, I just have to point on how wrong this is. I own a modded and non modded xbox. Guess which one I use more? Modded. At least 2-3 times a week I download/rip/etc a new movie and have friends/relatives over watching it. What else, besides Nero, can play a x2
Re:Mac Users? (Score:1)
I was only merely posing a question. You run SuSE Linux, good for you, do you want a cookie or something?
Who are you to tell me how to spend my money? Where are you pulling this stuff that I do not play games? Are we making stuff up now, have you run out of valid things to day, not that you have had any valid things to say yet. You are just angree at the world and also Microsoft it seems. Whatever, no skin off of my teeth.
I do howe
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Re:Same as on Game Boy (Score:2)
Check the tip of your nose... (Score:2, Funny)
What's that smell? (Sniff, sniff.) Um, check the tip of your nose...
A true classic...... (Score:2)
History of Crystal Quest (Score:2)
Read more about the history of Crystal Quest here. [stainlessgames.com] Makes me wonder if we'll ever see a new version of Dark Castle. (The best black & white game ever)
Re:History of Crystal Quest (Score:2)
Maybe [zsculpt.com]...
Re:History of Crystal Quest (Score:1)
http://www.deltatao.com/darkcastle/ [deltatao.com]
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XQuest (Score:2)
It would be nice to just apt-get install xquest one day.
Re:XQuest (Score:2)
Re:XQuest (Score:2, Informative)
It's probably worth mentioning that the original doesn't work under W2K or XP, but wor
Re:XQuest (Score:2)
I can confirm that XQuest runs fine in DOSBox, and with sound! I notice that your web site says that sound doesn't work but it works just fine here.
With the default configuration the sound does lag by about half a second, but changing blocksize from 2048 down to 512 in the [mixer] section of ~/.dosboxrc fixes that. Maybe a note to that effect on your web site?
And thanks for the many hours wasted in this addictive little game when I should have been studying
What about the clones? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:What about the clones? (Score:1)
Geometry Wars (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Geometry Wars (Score:1, Funny)
Buckland threatened to sue me over XQuest (Score:2, Interesting)
Eventually I called his bluff and he gave up, but the whole experience left a bit of a bitter taste. Intere
Re:Buckland threatened to sue me over XQuest (Score:2)
Really? I'm sure I've heard those "doh" and "woohoo" sound effects somewhere before
Re:Buckland threatened to sue me over XQuest (Score:1)