![]() ![]() Now, as you can notice, he looks like a big bowling eye, with many pipes that ends also with an eye (that gives him eye title). The final big boss, Xanathar is actually The Beholder, as he (is it he? or was it she? :-) says to you (when you get to the endgame for final confrontation) that all those traps you encountered, and minions you fought was just a play to watch, and that he was watching you all the way (that only gets him beholder title). The PC version of Eye of the Beholder appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott. ![]() ![]() Games with manual lookup copy protection.Gameplay feature: Character development - Automatic leveling.Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms.Dungeons & Dragons (D&D / AD&D) licensees.The game features a point-and-click interface for fighting, spellcasting and handling objects. There is a variety of monsters to fight and spells to cast. Combat and magic happen in real time, similarly to Dungeon Master. The starting party consists of four characters and up to two NPCs can join later. The only way out is the way down, into a dungeon filled with monsters, traps and puzzles.Įye of the Beholder is a dungeon crawler RPG with a first-person perspective based on the 2nd Edition AD&D rules. After the heroes enter the sewers, the ceiling collapses behind them. The Lords of Waterdeep summon a group of heroes to investigate, but someone or something has been watching the proceedings. I do get a little further into the level each attempt, but not quite made it further.Something evil is lurking below the city of Waterdeep. After hacking my way through some webs, my party is confronted by giant spiders, and after killing a few of them, some of my party usually end up poisoned with no way to recover - All hints welcome! I’ve reloaded my save at the start of the level numerous times. The game’s iconic red walls are replaced by darker, danker blue coloured walls, and spiders’ webs. It’s the 4th level of the game, and the first major palette change. I was able to reach the point where I usually get stuck. I’ve never beaten Eye of the Beholder, so I knew my review of the game would only include maybe a fraction of the whole game. ![]() Accessible via the “M” key, you’ll see your current location denoted by an arrow, together with all previously visited locations, and even markers indicating interactive wall and floor switches. I was given a fully playable Beta version more than 2 years ago to play on my Twitch stream, as well as coding and pixelling streams from Andreas, and regular press releases to Indie Retro News.Ī new feature which wasn’t in the original PC or Amiga versions of the game, is an extremely useful automap. Updates from Andreas and the team have been regular, so most people will know the game’s been in development. Then in 2018, a chance encounter with TwoFlower reminded Andreas that he needed to finish C64 Eye of the Beholder, and suggested he target the EasyFlash cartridge format… The C64 now had the hardware required to overcome the C64s lack of memory! So work started from scratch, and this time there would be no stopping them. Whilst the rights holders were unlikely to allow a solo dev to publish the game on a commercial basis, the process of completely reverse engineering the game would prove invaluable later on. After reverse engineering the entire game in less than a year he had a pixel precise replica of Eye of the Beholder, including automap. In 2010 Andreas got a Macintosh PC, and decided to learn Objective C and attempt an iOS port. In 2009 despite having all the levels, wall rendering, and items, the memory ran out, and Andreas had to call it a day on another valiant porting effort. Focus switched to a dedicated C128 version and work continued until 2009 with Two Flower and Mirage contributing some icon graphics. The memory limitations of the C64 forced Andreas to quickly abandon the C64 version - releasing a preview of a single level on CSDB. Work started around 2006 targeting C64/128. Whilst this was abandoned fairly quickly, it did allow Andreas to learn the file compression, maze format and parts of the game’s scripts. Even creating a fully fledged save game editor using AMOS which featured a very nice UI.įast-forward to 2005 and Andreas had dug more into the inner workings of the game and created an open source dungeon crawler engine called JAD (Just Another Dungeon crawler). Andreas began hex editing game saves as a way to gain bonuses in the game. The story of C64 Eye of the Beholder really begins with the Amiga release in 1992. ![]()
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