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Synfig studio door open free#

I drew Repton, a couple of doors and a transporter and then sent it to Dave and Paras. Just outlines and solid, non-gradient fills. The subtitle was in the font Eras, just as it was in the original releases.Īs this was my first major project in Inkscape I started simple. The REPTON logo was traced in Inkscape from a scan of the advert for the original REPTON release to get it as accurate as possible. They gave Repton a very strong brand image so all I had to do was follow their lead and not mess it up. The original Repton artwork was done by Ellis Ives Sprowell Partnership in Wakefield.

Synfig studio door open free#

I chose Inkscape as I'd heard it's the best vector artwork package available, it runs perfectly on Ubuntu Linux and because it saves artwork as, svg, a completely free format. This meant I had to export 600dpi bitmap images from my work, so vector artwork seemed the best way to go. This was because as we planned to print everything from small tape inlays to A2 promotional posters from the artwork. I chose to produce the artwork in vector format. Doors are also a feature of the game itself, so it seemed the obvious thing to do. My idea was a bit like 'The Secret Garden', with Repton opening a door and finding fantastic 'lost realms' inside. The Repton in the sketch owes more to Edvard Munch than Tim Tyler, but it showed roughly what I wanted to do. The first thing I did was to doodle on the back on an envelope whilst I was on the phone: The game itself looks like Boulderdash superficially but is a very different creature to play - it's more of a logic puzzle and attracts large numbers of chess players. I spent hour upon hour playing, designing screens and designing graphics. Repton was a bit of an obsession to me when I was growing up, and no Christmas was complete without me receiving the latest Repton release.

Synfig studio door open software#

The project was retitled 'Repton: The Lost Realms' in order to avoid confusion with the Repton 4 game in Repton Infinity and Superior's Repton 4:EGO game for the Archimedes.ĭave Moore of Retro Software approached me and asked how I would feel about trying to come up with some cover art for the game.

Development on the game resumed, and Retro Software got permission from Superior Interactive to release the game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Paras's Repton 4 game was thought lost until a year ago when it was recovered from an old 5.25' disc. When Repton Infinity came along the game was reworked as a new game, Cyroid:X, before being dropped completely. Some time after the release of Repton 3, Paras Sidapara started work on 'Repton 4' for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, a new Repton game with several novel features.