Happy New Year!!!

January 5,2009 9:16 am 1 comment

We hope everyone has had a great year end to 2008. This new year, a new beginning, opens the door to many new things. One of them being the great game of Archon, which we’re calling “Archon:Classic”…yeah, I know, very original name, but it describes perfectly what we are creating with this license. We thought of all kinds of cool, innovative names to have for this license, but I kept coming back to “Classic” because that is what this game is, and how we’re approaching it. We figure the gameplay was the perfect balance between action and strategy, the pieces matched up perfectly, everything was perfect. So why mess that up?

The only thing we’re doing for this version is redoing the graphics to bring it onto today’s modern consoles. Obviously an 8×8, one color sprite isn’t going to compete with what is out there today, so we’re going to fix that. Here is a screen shot of how the original game looked on the Atari (and yes, the Atari 8-bit computer was what the original was developed for.)

We have BIG plans for this version…even though we’re keeping the gameplay the same, there are other things that are very exciting. As they are developed and come available to talk about, you’ll hear it first right on this site, so keep tuned and register on the forums to become part of our community and help support the game.

Anyway, I hope your New Year is the best one yet. It will be for us…I can’t think of a better way to start a new year than with the opportunity to re-create one of the best games ever made. Archon.