The Faery Tale Adventure: A personal history of making a video game

[mouser]

Nice 3 part article about the early days of personal computer game making..

The Faery Tale Adventure was a computer game that I created for the Amiga in 1987. It was moderately popular for it’s day, and was ported to a number of platforms, including MS-DOS and the Sega Genesis.  I decided to write this account because, much to my surprise, there is still interest in the game — I occasionally get fan email or inquiries as to whether there will ever be a sequel. And so I thought it might be interesting to tell the story of how the game came to be, and what happened afterwards.

https://medium.com/@dreamertalin/the-faery-tale-adventure-a-personal-history-4fae0617a18d

from http://www.osnews.com/story/30184/The_Faery_Tale_Adventure_a_personal_history

[IainB]

Thanks. That was interesting - and quite enlightening, actually.

[skwire]

I actually own the Sega Genesis version of this game. 

[mouser]

ha!

[Deozaan]

Interesting story. I've never heard of him, or his game, or any of the other people or games he mentioned.

But I may have heard of some of the tools he made (Musica, Tiled, Anima). Either that, or other people made similar tools with the same or similar names.

[Shades]

A friend of mine was totally into that game at the time it came out for his Amiga. He even spent weeks making a huge hand drawn map (to scale) from the terrain/island the game played on.