Circuit man, it's really great to know you still remember my game. You must have been the biggest fan that game ever had, I remembered when you IMed for the first time, a young noob to the GameMaker world, raving about my game and asking me to check out one of your first titles, I believe it was called Jeans Snatcher? Alas, the sequel to Brasseye was almost completed when it was lost forever to a hard drive crash.
LOL, Jeans Snatcher. I wish you didn't remember that one! Most of my games can be explained as being a product of violent impulses and intellectual immaturity, very typical for kids that age, and completely harmless. But that game... a child psychologist would probably interpret it as a sign of something worse...! I don't know why or how I ever made such a creepy game. Let's not talk about that ever again.
It's a shame that Brasseye 2 was lost. I remember you talking about it on the forums. I was looking forward to playing it.
My later masterpeice World War X may also be lost forever. It was rejected from the AOL files by an asinine AOL staff member named "AFL Rod," due to its using "copyrighted" sounds from movies and songs (sounds that not only would be considered fine to use under "fair use" in todays internet, but which had been ripped from earlier gamemaker games on aol! the bastard), So I had to upload it to a free user site that has long since disappeared, so it never got archived by Mike. If only I had used angelfire, like this GMer who has preserved a link to my old site and a number of others. I think all those links are long dead except for that of Mobuli, the creater of Space Can Suck. www.angelfire.com/mac/mtrodaba2468/powersoftware/links.html
I remember AFL Rod. He put up my game "Alien Slaughter" but later took it down after he found out that it contained copyrighted sounds. He told me that I should request permission from Bungie to use the sounds (I borrowed 2 effects from Marathon) and that the licensing fees were very reasonable. He didn't understand that I was 12 years old, and that I wasn't hurting anybody. He enjoyed his job way too much.
I remember Power Software and the Journey of Milo demo. That was a cool game too. It's amazing that their site is still up.
Mobuli made a TV movie based on Space Can Suck, and another movie called Hitman's Handbook. He was really talented. I wonder what he's doing these days.
I know its a long shot, but I believe World War X was included on a big GameMaker games CD that a GMer known as "Jazznalien" sold to a bunch of people. I believe these CDs also contained all 7 or so of his "Secret Agent Bob" games many of which also were not on the AOL files. If any true old schoolers somehow still have this CD, or my game on an ancient Mac somewhere, it would be a true miracle. Any other games that are somehow extant but aren't part of Mike's archive should also be uploaded and preserved for posterity.
I'd like to play it. I vaguely remember hearing about that CD, although I never got one. I think I'll e-mail Jason and ask him if he still has a copy. In this age of high-speed internet, I bet he'd be willing to upload the games to rapidshare or someplace.
Is this the archive that you're referring to, or is there another one that I don't know about? This one says "Created by the Game Maker's Garage", which I think means it was made by Ghost, not Mike:
http://www.box.com/shared/ijvs45xf2vI know what you mean about wanting to preserve the games for posterity. For the past couple of years I've been trying to collect as many of the old GM games as I can. I downloaded all of the games from that archive, and a handful of others from Al's site and from the Games section of this site. I'm still looking for 2nd Terror Protocol, Alien in the Land o' Spam, Cola Quest, FAWG, FBI, Joe's Lost, the Luke Nukem series, at least 1 of the Mining Camp games, Skate or Die, and Twister Snowboarding. It seems that most if not all of the JFK Arts games are missing. Some of Patkicks' games may be missing, but it's hard to know, because he began several series and never finished any of them. I think that FSWTaylor's games are gone too.
EDIT: By the way Kurt, most of the SAB games are in that archive. Look for Secret Agent Bob, S.A. Bob, and RPG Bob.
