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[[File:sherwood.gif|thumb|320px|Sherwood Forest]]The Pennsylvanian pairing of Rob Sherwood and Dan Whalen pumped out game after game under the '''Sherwood Forest''' label. Their concern lay more in high concept scenarios than in exploring [[Game-Maker]]’s abilities. The result is that each game stays well within the limits of Game-Maker’s back-of-the-box feature set, and so comes off like a cross between ''[[Pipemare]]'' and ''[[Sample]]'', except without the polish. To the last, the games are top-down action adventures, controlled with the arrow keys and the space bar. They even use most of the same filenames.
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[[File:sherwood.gif|thumb|320px|Sherwood Forest]]The Pennsylvanian pairing of Rob Sherwood and Dan Whalen latched onto Game-Maker early, pumped out game after game without ever really learning the tools or apparently play testing the results of their efforts, and then quickly vanished. Their concern lay more in high concept scenarios than in exploring [[Game-Maker]]’s abilities. The result is that each game stays well within the limits of Game-Maker’s back-of-the-box feature set.  
  
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Although the individual games may be unremarkable, when you scrape up a big enough pile of them you begin to take each new concept strictly within the limits of the Sherwood Forest template. ''[[Shootout at Dodge]]'' has a wild west setting, and a kind of neat side-scrolling overworld or map screen. ''[[Big Bob’s Drive-In]]'' has a 1950s diner setting, which rationalizes attacks as food orders and monsters as customers. ''[[Robo Wars]]'' wraps its generic top-down action in a sci-fi techno setting. ''[[Rocket Fighter]]'' tries to sell itself as a space shooter, though you and I know better.
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What is curious about Sherwood’s games is that often the concepts are, if not brilliant, unusual and full of potential. As they went on, some of their sprite and background design was even rather charismatic. Yet the actual game design is bewilderingly slapdash, to the point where there’s a certain fascination, perhaps even an education, to poring over their catalog.
  
 
Perhaps Sherwood Forest’s best-known game is an adult title called ''The Adventures of Melvin Freebush'', that may or may not have been created with Game-Maker. On reflection, Sherwood could easily have included porn in any of its genres. Had they that foresight, one wonders where they would be today.
 
Perhaps Sherwood Forest’s best-known game is an adult title called ''The Adventures of Melvin Freebush'', that may or may not have been created with Game-Maker. On reflection, Sherwood could easily have included porn in any of its genres. Had they that foresight, one wonders where they would be today.

Revision as of 10:22, 23 September 2010

Sherwood Forest

The Pennsylvanian pairing of Rob Sherwood and Dan Whalen latched onto Game-Maker early, pumped out game after game without ever really learning the tools or apparently play testing the results of their efforts, and then quickly vanished. Their concern lay more in high concept scenarios than in exploring Game-Maker’s abilities. The result is that each game stays well within the limits of Game-Maker’s back-of-the-box feature set.

What is curious about Sherwood’s games is that often the concepts are, if not brilliant, unusual and full of potential. As they went on, some of their sprite and background design was even rather charismatic. Yet the actual game design is bewilderingly slapdash, to the point where there’s a certain fascination, perhaps even an education, to poring over their catalog.

Perhaps Sherwood Forest’s best-known game is an adult title called The Adventures of Melvin Freebush, that may or may not have been created with Game-Maker. On reflection, Sherwood could easily have included porn in any of its genres. Had they that foresight, one wonders where they would be today.

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Sherwood Forest Software
371 Ohio Street
Sharon PA 16146

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