Unfinished, buggy, missing features... and yet... Today on Ancient DOS Games, Gemini's taking a look at Shadow Knight, a very basic RPG battle engine simulator developed and published by the two-man team of Moretech Software in 1994. By all measures of game development, this is a shovelware title and virtually no one's gonna know much about it anymore, but buried within its broken code and numerous spelling mistakes is a feature which got my imagination churning as a kid and is the entire reason why I wanted to talk about this thing! ------------------------------------------ Additional Information and Corrections: * If you want to try this game for yourself, follow this link over to the DOS Games website: https://www.dosgames.com/game/shadow-knight * One thing I neglected to mention is that this game is clearly written in QuickBASIC. The whole 80x25 vs. 80x30 text mode thing is one such indication, as is the way the save data is written. * If you ABSOLUTELY MUST try my old RPG Fighter for yourself, use the following link. Just remember that this is a 16-bit Windows app and thus will not run on modern Windows and heck, virus scanners may have a field-day with it, not to mention it's GOING to crash on you sooner or later, so I highly recommend running it emulated: http://www.pixelships.com/files/rpgfight.zip * You may have noticed that RPG Fighter has a copyright identifier of "Cyanide and Gemini Productions". Much like how Moretech Software was essentially just a couple guys, this was what a friend and I called ourselves when we were making low-quality games as teens, bumbling our way towards figuring out how to do any of this given the lack of easily accessible game-making resources back then. :P ------------------------------------------ Pixelmusement Website: http://www.pixelships.com ADG on Pixelmusement: http://www.pixelships.com/adg Alphabetical Index of ADG Episodes: http://www.pixelships.com/adg/index2.html Kris' Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/kasick @Pixelmusement on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pixelmusement