Miscellany of Anthony Burns

 

Born 1979. I am a Welsh model (alterative / goth), antiques dealer, writer, and occasional game designer. Everything on this site is free for your perusal and use, with the exception of the lovely title photograph (copyright of Avatar Photography).

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CONTENTS

Sideways SEUCK Games (Require C64 Emulator)

Visual Basic Games

Novel "Gloriana's Mask" (Fantasy / SF)

Links

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C64 SIDEWAYS SEUCK GAMES

These side-scolling shoot-em-up games were made on Jon Wells updated version of the C64 "Shoot Em Up Construction Kit" by Sensible Software, and have been debugged and enhanced by C64 programmers Richard Bayliss and Martin Piper. The enhanced versions can be downloaded at Richard Bayliss' C64 freeware site The New Dimension, and the original versions of the games can be found at The Seuck Vault (Andrew Fisher's tribute site, and an excellent place to download original C64 and Amiga SEUCK games, and Sideways SEUCK games for free). A C64 emulator such as CCS64 or VICE is necessary to play these games.

The games are as follows (from top left to bottom right) ...

"Legion of the Damned" - A fantasy hack and slash-em-up, based heavily on a certain famous Sega arcade game that I wasn't happy with the C64 version of ...

"Legion of the Damned 2" - A sequel to the above, set in a modern urban slum, with armies of vampire thugs and leotard-clad, whip-wielding dominatrices to slaughter. Heavily based on "Double Dragon", and the less said about the C64 conversion of that, the better ...

"The Push" - A First World War variant on classic arcade run-and-gun games such as "Front Line", "Commando", and "MERCS".

"Baphomet" - Loosely inspired by "Altered Beast" and heavily inspired by the paintings of H R Giger. Traverse a nightmarish biomechanical landscape, increase your powers, and beard the evil demon Baphomet in its lair, if you can survive encounters with its many twisted minions.




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VISUAL BASIC GAMES

Set in the same world as Imperial Zeppelin (below), this game arose partly from my desire to create a game with two-way parallax scrolling as in Flimbo's Quest - one of my first C64 games, with amazing graphics for the system, on par with many mid 1980s arcade games (which is talso he look I was aiming for). The gameplay is similar to retro puzzle games such as Fantastic Dizzy, albeit with a tad more carnage and the ability to fly. Kill robots for essential items and mutants for helpful power-ups, and avoid deadly terrain while striving to avert a nuclear meltdown.

 

 

Not to beat around the bush, Space Invaders with bells and whistles ... though it also includes elements from some of my other all-time arcade favourites such as R-Type (the charge-up plasma beam), Ghouls 'n' Ghosts (the armour system), and just about any shoot-em-up featuring a duel with a dirty great mothership.

This game is set in a world that was once sophisticated and high-tech, but a centuries-old war of attrition has reduced it to a wasteland populated by mutated lifeforms resembling mythical creatures (none of whom intend to make friends with you). Even your "ship" resembles a Victorian-style fairy, but don't let that fool you into thinking she doesn't know how to fling a plasma bolt. The title of this game, incidentally, was pinched from an old Peter Hammill song. Since I'm not anticipating any profits, I'm fairly confident he won't mind...
 

A private eye adventure set in Aztec-era Mexico. I've taken a few historical liberties, which is nothing compared with the liberties I've taken scientifically, as the Dizzy-style cloud-walking sections will bear witness to ... However, the authentic historical detail is lurking in there somewhere, and if you enjoy old-style object-oriented platform adventure games, this might be a welcome dose of nostalgic escapism.

Speaking of which ...

 



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For all those who remember the golden age of computer gaming and especially the adventuring exploits of Dizzy the egg, here are my tiny homages:

"Dizzy in the Pits"
My first Visual Basic game, loosely based on "Quatermass and the Pit". Help Dizzy the egg to exorcise an ancient curse.

"Dizzy and the God's Vengeance"
This game introduces an overland map: a concept I borrowed from classic RPGs such as "Phantasy Star", but also with a hint of Dizzy arcade games such as "Kwik Snax" and "Fast Food", hence the music. Set in Dizzy's homeland, this private-eye style game sees the return of the Yellow God statue from the first Dizzy game, not to mention the return of some really quite dreadful poetry ...

"Dizzy and the Curse of Spirit Island"
This is set between Dizzy II and III in the official series, and is (very loosely) inspired by the  first season of the ABC series "Lost". Introduces new controls, cut-scenes, and alcohol, not that Dizzy hasn't fallen off the wagon before. Anyone remember that bottle of whisky?
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FICTION

The following novel is complete and free for your reading pleasure. Feedback is welcome. (Guestbook below)

Gloriana's Mask

The brilliant and almost benevolent dictator Gloriana, self-appointed ruler of the daemons, has devised a plan that will restore the world to a golden age of peace and joy. This will at first require the total destruction of society, but as luck would have it, she has a plan for that too. ...

Lord-Delator Calderon, sent to investigate her highness's sudden and mysterious ascent to power, might put a stop to her deranged machinations, if he can possibly fit it in before his next committee meeting. In the very likely event of his failure, Gloriana's own reluctant allies - the pathologically xenophobic Albinor - might call a halt to her delusions of god-hood, if they can stop trying to assassinate each other for more than a minute at a time ... Failing that, the future of civilisation might rest in the hands of Xitlan - a wealthy craftswoman of the New World - and her close friend the priest Itzco, who are not above a spot of cold-blooded murder when social stability is at stake.

I wrote this to exorcise my obsessions with Lord of the Rings, Phantom of the Opera, and Aztec history (among others). It also got me through a very dull few months in a flat that had been exorcised of all furniture by a disgruntled landlady ...

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LINKS

Wicked Talent Modelling


My Model Mayhem profile

My Ebay store

My customised clothing, skins, and houses on The Sims Resource

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ajdburns@yahoo.co.uk

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22/11/09