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From: daniel@hexagon.pkmab.se (Daniel Deimert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Union Demo
Keywords: demo, graphics, german
Message-ID: <187@hexagon.pkmab.se>
Date: 27 Jun 90 15:04:41 GMT
References: <1644@mwca.UUCP> <1990Jun26.133606.4586@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: daniel@hexagon.pkmab.se (Daniel Deimert)
Organization: Hexagon Computer Club, Tech College of OErebro, Sweden
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In article <1990Jun26.133606.4586@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
] ... ]
>spectacular.  Those guys should program professionally.  The demo is
>better than many commercial products I have seen.

Actually, they DO.  I think most of them now work for Thalion GmbH, a
German software company that mostly employs former hackers.

But I can tell you -- it's a long way between writing a good "demo" and
writing a good game.  You have probably never heard of their games,
though they are technically spoken excellent.  It's more to a good game
than that.  (Don't you like NetHack? I do, though it has quite poor
graphics...  ;-)

  [ two titles I know of are "The seven gates of Jambala" and "Chambers
of Shaolin" - check them out! ]

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