Black Crypt

published by Electronic Arts in 1992-03-20, developed by Raven Software, running on Amiga OCS
type: role-play
genre: Fantasy
perspective: 1st person
player options: single player
languages: eng
4.3/5
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Official description

Black Crypt was the first game title produced by Raven Software. Raven founders Brian and Steve Raffel had an idea for a Role Playing Game in the late 80's and set out to make it a reality. By April 1990, the brothers had brought two programmers aboard to assist them in the development of the game. The four produced a demo of Black Crypt and sent it out to several publishing companies. Electronic Arts (EA) saw the demo and agreed to publish the game in 1990. Black Crypt was released on March 20th, 1992.

Black Crypt was originally designed to run on a Commodore Amiga with 1 MB of RAM. The graphic mode used was called Extra Half-Bright, which allowed for a user-defined palette of 32 colors (out of 4096 color choices). The mode then provided an additional 32 colors, which were half the brightness of the chosen colors. 'Copper' effects were used to do special effects, such as the teleport or water ripples. Black Crypt supported 4 channels of sound and was "hard drive installable." It was distributed on three 880k disks.

In 1998, Raven Software programmer Rick Johnson released the first two levels of Black Crypt for the PC as Freeware.

Raven - # 2007-11-11 23:34:26 - official description - source

Technical specs

display: raster

Authors / Staff

design

Brian Raffel (designer)
Steve Raffel (designer)

coding

Ben Gokey (programmer)
Rick Johnson (programmer)

graphics

Brian Raffel (artist)
Steve Raffel (artist)

audio

Kevin Schilder (sound)
Kevin Schilder (music)

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External reviews (15) - average: 85.3% - median: 89%

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Amiga Actionuk301992-0393/10093%
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Amiga Actionuk551994-0380/10080%
Amiga Computinguk501992-0785/10085%
Amiga Forceuk151994-0289/10089%
Amiga Formatuk341992-0578/10078%
Amiga Formatuk561994-0270/10070%
Amiga Poweruk111992-0385/10085%
Amiga Poweruk351994-0377/10077%
C&VG (Computer & Video Games) 085-199uk1501994-0590/10090%
CU Amigauk251992-0390/10090%
Génération 4 (1-82)fr431992-0495/10095%
Joystickfr251992-0391/10091%
The One Amigauk651994-0269/10069%
The One for Amiga Gamesuk421992-0392/10092%
Tilt 39-113fr1001992-0319/2095%

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