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just a week before, so they rejected the game. The game was finished and tested by January 1992, a month before its release. The developers received little to no compensation for their work on the game, they were even banned from the game's Hungarian launch event.
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level of difficulty, but criticises its "poor" graphics, calling its animations "lackluster" and almost '8-bit' looking in combat, expressing that "when so much effort has been put into every other aspect of something as huge as
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leverage over other similar RPGs is that it has extensive above-ground locations in addition to its subterranean dungeons, furthermore, stating that "what you do above ground is every bit as important as your endeavours below."
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The narrative sees a band of four heroes from the land of Kalynthia, to save their homeland from the clutches of the evil arch mage Bronagh.
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Beregi, Tamás (November 2010). "A számítógépes játékok aranykora" [The Golden Age of Computer Games]. In Judit Borus (ed.).
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tabletop role-playing games. Starting in spring 1990 the company pitched the game to several publishers, including
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an overall score of 80%, praising the size of the game world, and expressed that
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developed by ArtGame and published by International Computer Entertainment for
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was developed by the founders of Hungarian video game development company
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Pixel Heroes: The First Fifty Years of Computer Games
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First-person party-based dungeon crawler video games
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Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
Platform(s)
Amiga
MS-DOS
EU
Genre(s)
Role-playing
dungeon crawl
Single-player
dungeon crawler
role-playing video game
Amiga
DOS

dungeon crawls
3D view
Dungeon Master
ArtGame
György Dragon
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeon Master
Electronic Arts
Raven Software
Black Crypt
Amiga Action

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