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Hi Everybody

Just a little post to inform you that a new game will come out very soon on Oric.
Athanor
It's an Adventure Game, Hobbit Style.
It will be available in physical version, 3.5" or 3" disk in a cardboard jacket cover (see : Infiltrator on Apple //)

This game will be delivered with several material clues (like CobraSoft games in the 80s)
Here is the illustration of the cover and a couple of screenshots







NB : The game will also be fully translated in english. (sorry these screenshots belong to the French version, I will post some with English text soon)

Happy New Year to Everyone
Stay tuned

Whoa! It seems that 2014 will be an incredible year for the Oric. Looks wonderful!

Congratulations!

Looks great !
Bravo

Thanks to both of you !!

Looking forward to seeing it. Hoping to get a real oric drive in 2014...

Now that I see the screenshots, I wonder if your game would not benefit from having a custom character font instead of the system one

One possibility, the font used in the game Montségur:

Great news !

Will it be a commercial product for sell or can it also be available to download freely?

@barnsey123 : Thanks to you

@Dbug : I agree. Do you know if it's possible to find a .bin file for the custom character font ?

@peacer : Only in a commercial version. (cardboard packaging + Disks + material clues)

Hi Atlantis , continue the great job

Atlantis wrote:@Dbug : I agree. Do you know if it's possible to find a .bin file for the custom character font ?

The game is not on Oric.org, if somebody has it I could probably extract the font.

perhaps you can find that in our test:

http://www.oricgames.com/edito,fr,112,64.html

the complete code exploration (ceomag) was made by Dominique Pessan

There you go: Load it in $B400 if you are in TEXT mode, or $9800 if you are already in HIRES (add +1024 if you want to use ALT mode instead of STD)

And what the font looks like: Thanks to Maximus for the wav files.

Nice!

One thing is that, though I like the capitals, I find this font quite difficult to read. Dunno if this could be an issue for a text adventure game. Or maybe it is just me.

Chema wrote:Nice!
One thing is that, though I like the capitals, I find this font quite difficult to read. Dunno if this could be an issue for a text adventure game. Or maybe it is just me.

It's definitely the easiest font to read, but my point was mostly on the visual impact of having a custom font vs using the System charset.

In an adventure game you spend your time reading text, and it should not look like a second class citizen in relation to the pictures

That's one of the thing I nagged Dom about when he wrote Murder on the Atlantic, so I spent a bit of time and made him the 'Art Deco' font used in the game

Thanks Mike & Maximus !
On the one hand, I agree that the font is fine but on the other hand I also considered that it's a little difficult to read.
I'll try it out ingame to see the result.