Category:Angelo Felix

Sunflowers in Shanna

Angelo B. Felix. It's unclear if he created more than the one game, which could be downloaded from the Frontline BBS. Felix himself seems to have run a BBS in Puerto Rico.

Oh darn! I forgot about that game. Yes I did, it was a lot of fun making, I named it after my daughter Shanna.

I need to try and find those games, I'm sure I have them stored somewhere.

— Angelo Felix, conversation, Facebook, October 2010

I should have kept the Game Maker box - still possible it may be laying around in storage somewhere. I think the Game Maker kit came with a set of default sprites and graphics; the idea to Game-Maker was to get the end user quickly up and running with your own games. Later, if you decided, you could take more time and make your own graphics.

Probably, a lot of the graphics and sprites you see in Shanna were taken from the kit that Game Maker came in. I also might have altered them (which was allowed), I think the most original was the character sprite, I remember spending a lot of time on that one (I think the graphics were original too).

I actually played Shanna for a while today and as remembering some of what I did to make it (after over 10 years!). Some of the routines you see were hackish as I was told by the makers of the box, it couldn't be done yet. For example the 'upward floating score on kill' was not conventional, took me a long time to figure out a way to get it to work.

— Angelo Felix, conversation, AXClassic.com, December 2011

Registration information

Angelo B. Felix

P.O. Box 138, Ramey

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico 00604

Sites

• AX Classic
• Nahunta.org

Interviews / Articles

• Easy Lifting (DIYGamer)