Project S.T.O.R.M. Evaluation Release 0.9B1, August 2, 1991
The files that you have just unpacked are part of an evaluation release of Project STORM. What this means is that the product itself is not ready and should not be viewed as a fully debugged and working program. The game is also limited, but only because there hasn't been enough time to complete all the work.
Why are we releasing this package?
We have shown similar versions to this one to several game publishers, but for various reasons, the publishers have not been interested in Project STORM. Since going commercial appears to be more trouble than it's worth, STORM is going to be released as a free program, the way that it was originally intended.
The game itself is only a small part of STORM. More importantly, an animation toolkit and a sampled sound kit have been developed and can be used for other games. Think C source code for these kits will be made available later, as shareware.
Right now, none of the STORM programming team members have a lot of time available, so if you want to see this game completed, let us hear about you.
What's missing?
The game editor is not included in this release, so you'll have to do with only eight distinct game levels. This stinks, but it's the way that it is. The author of the editor is Sampo Kellomäki and he can be contacted as sampo@niksula.hut.fi.
The titles and high score routines have bugs, probably lots of them. If you want something done about the titles, contact the author, Janne Frösen, jaf@niksula.hut.fi.
I wrote the game play itself and the animation and sound routines, so if you have problems with those, feel free to send hate mail to: Juri Munkki, jmunkki@hut.fi.
If you want to address the whole team (please don't do it, unless absolutely necessary), send mail to storm@niksula.hut.fi.
We need encouragement (bribes are also ok...), so tell us, if you like what you see.
