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I'm immensely proud of what we achieved.'īASS' re-release on iPhone segues neatly with the general resurgence of the point-and-click adventure. BASS wasn't particularly unique in that regard. But you know, videogames are generally just a bitch to finish. Servicing those changes was hard work at times. You make the best decision you can at the start but as the game progresses you have to be willing to go back and change things. I believe you ideally have one person driving the vision and that, if you make a mistake, you go back and change it. 'I wasn't particularly realistic about the scope of the game,' he admits. The iPhone comes first, but Revolution Pocket's announcement release mentions the possibility of other handheld formats, including Android, DSiWare and PSPgo.

For Cecil, it was reward for what had been a difficult development. Nevertheless, the game sold extremely well at retail, managing between 3-400,000 copies, almost all of which were from Europe. Almost overnight the powerhouse publisher went into administration with most of the staff either transferring to Acclaim or Virgin. However, just as the game was entering its final stages, Mirrorsoft's owner, Robert Maxwell, died in a yachting accident.

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The game cost about £40,000 to make, a huge amount of money for Cecil at the time, whose first games at Arctic Software had cost around £200 a title. Of course, at the time we all loved Blade Runner and Alien and Terminator, the three really big science-fiction films of the era, and they were a big influence.' Our concept was that, in a dystopian society were pollution rises, you'd have the richest people living in the lowest areas as, the higher you rise, the more scummy the environment became. But the scenario was born from a simple twist on convention: 'We liked the idea of reversing the natural order of cities, whereby the higher you are the more status you have. Set in an Australia, BASS' story and setting is one of the key reasons for the game's loyal and vociferous fanbase. That was always our vision, to find the middle ground between Sierra's ridiculously earnest stories and the slapstick comedy of the LucasArts titles but I think our personalities and approaches emphasized the tension.' He wanted to be more flippant with dialogue, while I wanted to be more serious.

'The tone of our early games was born from a tension between Dave and I.

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Available for download from the Downloads page.Dave Cummins, who, alongside Cecil, worked on Lure of the Temptress and Revolution's later hit, Broken Sword, wrote the dialogue for the game.

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BASS Windows installer (installs ScummVM + BASS data files).For more information, see the user documentation Hotkey To change these controls and more, use the Keymaps tab in the global or game-specific settings. For more information, see the user documentation The following language choices are available when using command-line arguments or the 'Language' option in the game-specific settings. However, if you are missing this file, download it here. In most cases, no further action is required. The sky.cpt file is also required, but it comes bundled with most ScummVM distributions. It is available for download from our Downloads page.įor more information on how ScummVM uses game data files, see the user documentation. In August 2003, the creators and copyright holders of Beneath a Steel Sky, Revolution Software, released the game as freeware for use with ScummVM.