Droid

Droid

Release type: Incomplete
Release date: 1999
Levels: 3
Author: Robert Brandon
Related games: Void Raiders

THIS ARTICLE IS INCOMPLETE
FULL ENTRY COMING SOON!

Story

N/A

Instructions

Shooting the tubes in Droid

Arrow keys:

Roll your orb

T/F/G/H:

Fire directional energy beam Up/Left/Down/Right

Enter:

Release orbital spheres

1/2/3/4 (plus special items):

Secret moves

Credits

Designed by

Robert Brandon

Engine and Tools by

Recreational Software Designs

Edited by

EJR Tairne

Background

John Brandon:

Made by my brother. A decent and challenging top down maze game where you play as a black ball/orb. (Maybe a palette swap from Bounerim?)

I see space ship graphics copied from Orb, but I also see a good amount of self created artwork. Looks like there are several levels and it is actually possible to get through them and "complete" the game, my brother was always more complete with his projects and had more patience to do less enjoyable tedious things like using the integrator.

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 Droid online

Downloads

• Droid (171.3 kB)