Crystal Caves Clone

Frenkel · 12-28-2015, 11:32 AM

Here's a game called Little Willy from 1993 or 1994.

How many similarities to Crystal Caves can we find?

Lunick Fiore · 12-29-2015, 12:20 AM

It plays awfully :|

Joe Siegler · 12-31-2015, 11:59 PM

Oh dear.

X-Vector · 01-01-2016, 06:50 AM

Little Willy style.

Frenkel · 01-01-2016, 10:46 AM

Some similarities:
- Little Willy himself looks like the hero of Crystal Caves with his gray skin and yellow hair.
- The gameplay is similar in that you have to grab all items before you can exit the level.
- You shoot rockets.
- The title screen moves the same.
- You choose which level you want to play in the same way.

Flaose · 01-11-2016, 08:05 PM

Was the engine perhaps licensed to the developer to create the game? Was it reverse engineered? It seems way too close to be anything less.

Lunick Fiore · 01-11-2016, 08:09 PM

The file formats are different I believe.

Frenkel · 01-12-2016, 03:49 PM

The creator of Secret Agent, Peder Jungck, did license his graphics routines as the ProGraphx Toolbox to other developers. The toolbox is used in the Apogee games Crystal Caves, Dark Ages and Duke Nukem 1. It's also used in FBI Fred.

I was looking for other games that might use the ProGraphx Toolbox by searching for games that have data files with a size of 8064 bytes, when I found Little Willy. But alas, the file formats are different.

12-31-2015, 11:59 PM	#3
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Crystal Caves Clone Oh dear. __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

12-28-2015, 11:32 AM	#1
Frenkel	Crystal Caves Clone Here's a game called Little Willy from 1993 or 1994. How many similarities to Crystal Caves can we find? __________________ Groeten van Frenkel Visit us at the Official S&F Prod. Homepage

12-29-2015, 12:20 AM	#2
Lunick Fiore	Re: Crystal Caves Clone It plays awfully :\|

01-01-2016, 06:50 AM	#4
X-Vector	Re: Crystal Caves Clone Little Willy style. __________________ We're on an express elevator to hell... going clown. HELLO, MY FRIEND - freindship make a happiness double times and divide sadness half and make us remove our unhappiness. Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb

01-01-2016, 10:46 AM	#5
Frenkel	Re: Crystal Caves Clone Some similarities: - Little Willy himself looks like the hero of Crystal Caves with his gray skin and yellow hair. - The gameplay is similar in that you have to grab all items before you can exit the level. - You shoot rockets. - The title screen moves the same. - You choose which level you want to play in the same way. __________________ Groeten van Frenkel Visit us at the Official S&F Prod. Homepage

01-11-2016, 08:05 PM	#6
Flaose	Re: Crystal Caves Clone Was the engine perhaps licensed to the developer to create the game? Was it reverse engineered? It seems way too close to be anything less.

01-11-2016, 08:09 PM	#7
Lunick Fiore	Re: Crystal Caves Clone The file formats are different I believe.

01-12-2016, 03:49 PM	#8
Frenkel	Re: Crystal Caves Clone The creator of Secret Agent, Peder Jungck, did license his graphics routines as the ProGraphx Toolbox to other developers. The toolbox is used in the Apogee games Crystal Caves, Dark Ages and Duke Nukem 1. It's also used in FBI Fred. I was looking for other games that might use the ProGraphx Toolbox by searching for games that have data files with a size of 8064 bytes, when I found Little Willy. But alas, the file formats are different. __________________ Groeten van Frenkel Visit us at the Official S&F Prod. Homepage