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RavenGames back online

After some dificult times here at RavenGames, we're back online for good. A new team emerged around sneax, EuT and myself to continue the project!
Lets hope we can give it a boost. You can expect the usual daily news flood sometime during this next week.

Happy New Year for all!

Black Crypt OpenGL port public release

Rick Johnson finally released a test version of the OpenGL port of Black Crypt, which is working fine (at least for me). To download it, visit Rick's Black Crypt site. For more info on the game, visit our Black Crypt section.

(Thanks to Estoroth for making me aware of this)

Black Crypt Site Online

Raven Software's Rick Johnson updated his .plan file today to let everyone know that the new official site for the OpenGL remake of Black Crypt is now online. The site offers a detailed progress report on how the updated version of this popular dungeon crawl RPG for the PC is coming along, and shows off a few screenshots.

Take a look at Rickmus site here.

Rick Johnson's .plan updated

"Well, after a few years of a break, I started to re-port Black Crypt (Raven's original game on the Amiga)over to the PC again rendering it with GL. I'm hoping to have it mostly finished by the end of the Holiday Season. I was going to try to convince *someone* to create a little web site for it, so that I can put up progress shots, etc. Here's an initial picture of its current state."
Remember that it is still in a very rough state, which is why there are a lot of mixed up things.

You can check it out here.

Black Crypt petition

As part of our RavenGames Xmas event, we started a petition for Raven Software to release the full PC port of Black Crypt. Help our community by signing the petition before January 12, 2003. More infos here.

No Black Crypt port in the near future

We just got information directly from Raven Software that the PC port of Black Crypt (started in 1998 and mentioned in a PlanetSoldier chat a couple of months ago) is rather unlikely to be released anytime soon.

"[Black Crypt] was a side project one of our programmers worked on during a vacation. Unfortunately, he hasn't had any free time to work on it for almost three years. Given the fact that he's the lead programmer of Quake IV, I doubt he'll have any free time anytime soon, either."

(Source: RavenForums)

Black Crypt OpenGL from Raven?

In last Wednesday's chat published on PlanetSoldier Rick Johnson, programmer at Raven Software, made following statement:

"I would love to do an RTS or an RPG. I've kinda started to think about re-porting black crypt over to a GL environment - who knows, maybe I'll finish this one and build in a level editor as well."

So after all, there might still be a chance that Raven's very first game, Black Crypt, will make it from the Amiga to the PC. Stay tuned... as soon as we've got any more info on this, we'll publish it here.

Black Crypt detailed maps available

Thanks to the hard work of UltimateMind and Estoroth, now you can't loose yourself any more in the dungeons of Black Crypt. While up to this day only low quality, barely readable scans from the original manual have been circulating on the web, now we can present you with a high quality redraw of all maps, including full legend and even a couple of corrections/enhancements vs the originals. Explore these new Black Crypt maps here.

Black Crypt manual

Upon several requests, Raven Software authorized the free distribution of the original Black Crypt manual, which you can download here (32 KB).

Black Crypt music released

Raven Software is releasing the original music of the Amiga classic dungeon RPG Black Crypt. You can download it here. For more information on this music which has significance for later Raven games, see this page.

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