Anime

Anime

Release type: Incomplete
Release date: 2001
Levels: 1
Author: Brandon Enterprises
Related games: Zarlor Mercenaries 2

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Instructions

Flaring out in Anime

Arrow keys: Move your ship

Z: Twin lasers

X: Wide beam

C: Turbo booster

Credits

Designed by

John Brandon

Engine and Tools by

Recreational Software Designs

Edited by

EJR Tairne

Background

John Brandon:

Barely developed top down shmup, spinoff from the Zarlor Mercenaries 2 project, not seriously worked on for any length of time.

Since I rediscovered Anime, I've been scratching my head on what Rob and I had in mind with the graphical style of the maps - flat colored blocks in a motif that is somewhat akin to ultra magnification on some low resolution pixel art (although looking at the map zoomed out just shows some abstract "root-like" designs). I think it may have been an experiment to see if we felt that this new minimal art style would be sufficient, to see if the game "worked" and the background felt complete. Rob mentioned a few months ago that he really liked that we tried this style, even if we never developed it further. I think I'll choose to read into it and declare it to be our version of Rez, a minimalistic digital suggestiveness.

Availability

Prior to this archive's online presence, this game is not known to be publicly available.

Archive history

On January 21st 2010, Rob Brandon pseudonymously responded to a Reddit thread with a passing comment about Game-Maker. When pressed about his history with the software, he replied that all of his games were stored on a couple of defunct computers, either inaccessible or destroyed.

Over 31 months later on August 23th 2012, John Brandon commented on a YouTube clip that he had found an archive of his and his brother's old games. The next day he composed a long e-mail describing the contents of a jumbled collection of gameware files, adding up to an ostensible sixteen games. All of the games were in pieces, many of them incomplete.

Over the next five months, through regular consultation, the games were all reassembled as well as the materials would permit. The games were reconstructed or otherwise recovered on the following dates:

• October 28th: Seal Boarders.
• October 31st: Seal Boarders 2.
• November 5th: Zarlor 2.
• November 7th: Skate Board.
• November 10th: Fox World.
• December 9th: Foxy Dimensions.
• December 16th: Fox Party.
• December 17th: Ulysses, Penguin War, and Raven.
• December 19th: Skatenig, Slot Car, and Anime.
• December 21st: Droid, Void Raiders, and Terra.

Links

• Play Anime online

Downloads

• Anime (82.0 kB)