| Unfortunately, Six Beasties is once more in indefinite limbo as we are working on other projects. One day we hope to come back to it. | ||
| Beholder work-in-progress: Six Beasties project overview | ||
| updated: March 2003 |
By the side of the road to a well-known fiery place: six beasties and fifty-two cards |
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Beholder presents Six Beasties, a unique combination of writing, computer generated imagery, sound and programming. the strangest game of cards... ever |
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The Beasties are no ordinary players -- and the cards are no ordinary cards: ever seen the Ace of Seeing or the Emperor of Hearts? You're welcome just to visit... but sooner or later you'll be tempted to pick up the cards and play against the Beasties. There's an implicit weekly challenge to work your way through the strange building and play all Six Beasties at their own, strange game. |
changing week by week, month by month | 
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Each week, the cards are reshuffled and re-dealt, and the challenge is repeated. But, of course, it's not quite that simple... the cards change with time, over the months, and which cards win depends on the cumulative preferences of readers from previous weeks. quality writing, graphics and audio combined |
Six Beasties has been in a state of limbo for over a year while the
creative team has been fighting beasties of a more worldly nature.
Unfortunately we couldn't meet our planned release date of 2002 and
for now the project is back in the cupboard. But one day in the future,
perhaps...
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thousands of lines of code (Perl, Java, POV-Ray)
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Project Status |
We're retaining the Java interface which was developed for the initial version of Six Beasties, as well as most of the computer-generated images we've already produced. We've learnt some things from the success of Planetarium, but we're keen to make this different in both format and experience. Six Beasties is more of an ongoing concept than the once-only experience of our previous work. One web... fifty-two cards... |
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No adverts to dodge, no registration -- just Beholder on the web. |
Six Beasties: Not like anything you've seen before. Not quite a story. Not quite a game of cards. Not quite yet. Watch for updates: www.beholder.co.uk  ...and Six Beasties | |
