Seal Boarders
Release type: Freeware
Release date: 1998
Levels: 33
Author: Brandon Enterprises
Related games: Seal Boarders 2, Penguin War, Penguin Pete, Peach the Lobster
Instructions
On numerical keypad:
- 2: Slide forward
- 1, 3: Slide left, right
- 4, 6: Slide hard left, right
- 8: Shimmy up
[SPACE]: Do a trick
Other keys may trigger bonus moves, depending on the selected character.
Credits
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Background
John Brandon:
- One of my favorite games as a kid was the original Cool Boarders game for PSX. I was also an avid snowboarder, so of course I had to make a snowboarding game.
- I used some old stuffed animals I had as inspiration for the characters. The game is simultaneously basic, but possibly represents one of the best GM games my brother and I collaborated on. I was pretty proud of the way I created levels, by literally carving them out of a background of one block tall trees, and how this was semi-realistic to how a real ski mountain would create trails through a wooded mountain. Captain Mel the Pelican (advertised on the title screen) was never created. This game was worked on by both me and my brother.
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
Downloads
- Seal Boarders (176.7 kB)
