This is about as new of a game as would be permitted to be considered an "ancient" DOS game. :P Today on Ancient DOS Games, Gemini's taking a look at Happyland Adventures, a freeware indie platformer made back in 2000 by Johan Peitz under his Free Lunch Design banner, though nowadays he operates a small gamedev studio in Sweden known as Apskeppet. There's not a whole lot to say about this game itself, except it has considerable significance since it was one of the more popular titles developed with the Allegro Game Programming Libraries, thus the latter half of the video dives a little deeper into some of the inner workings of the game or ways in which it inspired Gemini's own game development efforts. ------------------------------------------ Additional Information and Corrections: * If you'd like to grab a copy of the game for yourself, here's a link to it on the DOSGames website: https://www.dosgames.com/game/happyland-adventures * If you'd like to check out what Johan Peitz has been up to, here's a link to his dev studio's website which also has a link at the bottom of the page to his personal website: https://apskeppet.se/ ------------------------------------------ Pixelmusement Website: https://www.pixelships.com ADG on Pixelmusement: https://www.pixelships.com/adg Alphabetical Index of ADG Episodes: https://www.pixelships.com/adg/index2.html Kris' Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/kasick @pixelmusement.com on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/pixelmusement.com ------------------------------------------ Chapters: 00:00 Title and Intro 01:58 Game Stats 03:17 Gameplay 06:49 Allegro Stuff 11:22 Overall 13:00 DOSBox Configuration 14:07 Credits