Where are the Etherlords?
(C) 1999, Jam / XPJ
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From the Editor:
We continue to sign-
mit our readers
by Spectrum
"Backstage", with interest
GOVERNMENTAL people, which
ryh can be found
on our platform
and today we offer
your attention Institute
interviews with Alex
Shirokov, more of the
under the known pseudo
nimom Demiurge Ash.
On his account - was carrying
How many successful game projects, a
prize in the nomination "Graphics" at the festival Funtop ...
so that nothing to say! read the interview.
*
ZXP: Just a question on filling "- tell
about the origin of your nickname ...
As I guess, Ash - a reduction
deviation from the Alexei Shirokov, but with
here the demiurge?
ASH: Very true noticed by, once it
there was a reduction, but now I sus
neem these three letters as my second
Name, without translation and dvusmys
population difference. Later, however, it turned out
that this name is already used by Kaki
Mi-a left-wing dudes, and it was
or renamed, or ...
... "What, in principle, I have been on
computer, as not creating proper
governmental worlds "- I thought, and added
to the old nicknam'u their "profession"
:) - Demiurge (Rus Demiurge - the creation
Tel worlds, creator). As I later knots
signal from a book Strugatskikh Gnostics
Demiurge gave a somewhat different
value: "Creativity, an
superconducting matter, burdened by evil. "
But to me, with my gloomy outlook
it, it was just at hand. > :-)
Take, for example, my DeMouy "Black Fu
ry "- just under the label it the Demiurge
emerge from the darkness;).
ZXP: Well, at the same time so the readers narrate their
a brief autobiography.
ASH: I do not think this is an interesting topic.
But, nevertheless: he was born in Zaba
Calle 24 years ago. All my life vibration
forces in the country (my Dad military, well
and, consequently, frequent travel).
Eight years he lived in Germany, where
turned on their computers. There, in the
'91 Year, nearly bought Amiga,
but he chose a cheap Atari. After
Germany is firmly settled in the city rulnom
Kovrov. (It is produces Moto
cycles of "Sunrise" and "Owl"!) ill
Spectrum: driven by frenzied grandmother
his left Atari and bought the 48th Le
ningrad where oposlya year Nep
reryvnoy rubilovki different games for
nyalsya coding and graphics (48 + tape
it is not rulez;). Built a couple of games and
bought Pentagon128 + Tr-Dos, which
shortly successfully burned. In
Currently on my desk is
Pentagon3 +, but close - Pentium233. Here
Such are the dumplings.
ZXP: What keeps you on the Spectrum? AND
what are your predictions about the GUT
his further stay on it?
ASH: First, of course scene, that is
people. It's like a world apart: there is
the usual boring world of work, obyazannos
Tay, and Spectrum is a world - a world in
where you play a role in
who appreciate what you're doing.
How many Speccy I'm still awake, the exact
but I do not know, but maybe a couple of years
'll be something to do, it all depends,
Of course, on whether to require my
work to someone else. For example, while people
respond to the heresy - I'll be her vypus
Cach.
ZXP: Do you think what now
day is not hvatet Spectrum?
ASH: The people he needs. Series spectrum
mysts thinning. Here we must especially PSP
Thanks to the creators of emulators Sha
laeva and Yudin. It is through their
programs, people who once left the
Speccy for PC, return again.
The truth, of course, they do not give all
time Spectrum, but still ka
Kaya-no activity on their part
observed. And it may very well be that
a few years the scene will Speccy
children exist only in the form of emula
tor + net.
ZXP: Tell me what role you're currently behind, at
this platform? You are here, for example,
doing gfx-maker'stvom, but apart
order and the newspaper to release, and for soft
Mayking "hereunto set my hand." And what you
most like to do?
ASH: The Role? Yes, in principle, not as a matter
I just do what I like.
I like to draw, and even the way
surface there are no - that's ri
shove. So it is with Codina
with one another, and heresy. When you're doing, do not
it is important that specific, you get
it is a pleasure from the process of creative
honors: create anything out of something.
ZXP: Why are you still left out of EI? And for
one tell me about his attitude to
collective creativity.
ASH: That's what I've written in the first Heresy:
differences have arisen, no longer a pony
mother of one another, the reasons were many.
Do not want to wash dirty linen in public.
I am not against the collective creativity,
For example, right now, together with Sergius
Puzzler and Erena Kline make logical
kuyu game Kluxer, the beta version of which
was presented at the Di: Halt: 99 par
ty. But still, for the most part I
I love to do alone, following
principle: "if you want to be good -
do it yourself. "
ZXP: How do you generally regarded situtsiyu
on the ZX-stage (ie, status
software, with the activity of the authors ...)?
ASH: useful and powerful software is very small.
Mostly written in small programs
but it is quite understandable when one considers
that everything is done on enthusiasm.
Even if the author hopes that he
luchit certain sum of money for its program -
more often he receives nothing.
Examples of this mass. And I think that the system
fluctuations are no longer correct. : (
A powerful burst of activity was in '98
year, thanks FunTop'u. But, unfortu
Unfortunately, in '99, he poured out on the bore
How many small ones, the largest of which
ryh was CC'999, but even that did not reach
half the level of FT. And now, been
people in all these left-wing parties and
more he would not go there already ... Corresponding
respectively, do nothing to them
be. Thus the stage and dies.
Easier nakodit anything on the PC and
participate in the foreign party: there
cool scenery, almost no competitors
left, and a money good wages
bot can be. And now passed
rumor that persuaded Random Bulchukeya,
that CC was steeper in the next FT
year to do just CC. Large
part of the people who would gladly
went to work for svom FT'2000
(1. Closer than Peter, 2. Left
recollections of FT'98, 3. de
sweet prizes were, 4. Organizers do not
built from a Powerpuff sceners, 5. and
so much more ...), not trample on the SS
Xia.
ZXP: What games do you prefer, adventyury,
perhaps? :) What are some of your favorite
toys.
ASH: Adventyury rulez! But, unfortunately, they
require a lot of time - which at present
moment I have just not. Therefore,
play the game easier.
My favorite games on the Spectrum
Samurai Warrior
Target Renegade
Rodland
Lotus Turbo Esprit
But this is a classic, no new games
about which I could say: "this
my favorite game. "They go on
short period of time after
which one does not want them smot
Ret. Nevertheless, it should be noted
"Black Crow" by Mednonogov -
very professionally made prog
Ramm - I would not do it. I also
Like "Klondike Solitaire" by Fly
ing. Cool made Last Hero of
the Light Force by Excess.
ZXP: Let's talk about your own
games. Bring us here a full call list
check your game-softografii with commentary
tariyami.
ASH: My first toy was adventyura
Examiners investigation
written on the engine, ABS, promotes
ICDO the people Inforkomom. I had
it significantly alter and, in the chain
scrap, for the first time turned out
very well. Next was the NADI
san erotic pyatnashki
LEGotron
with hand-drawn girl. After the success of "ER"
I sat down to write a new adventyuru on the motion
Re a'la Scott Adams
The Knight and the Sorcerer Svyatogor Karachun
As planned it to be a cross
Rial adventyur, but as it turned out, hell
ventyury no longer used for such
pulyarnostyu as before.
The three above-mentioned bend were ETS
lans 48 + tape. Now I would at this
did not dare. ;) Shortly after "The Knight"
I started 12TK. Separate program
released a demo mission
12 Mystery Books Demo Version 0.5
As entertainment, I rewrote
Wild Cat toy and released it under a
name
Wild 2
This creation was simply not
Kim fuck'om game-specific human
century. (With which we, incidentally, is now in
good relationship) And finally vysh
la still full version
12 secret book.
In addition to games, I still did:
Delirium MegaDemo
my first demo;)
Dark Boot
"Shoes" with replaceable sprite
Demiurge Ash: First Slide Show
13't screenshots + realtime drawn Mari
lyn Monroe
Black Fury
bloody animation-jokemo (my second
demo;)
ModernWorD 1.0 - 2.1
cool txt's editor.
Heresy # 01 - # 03
I turned the e-Pape. This is my main
nye bend on the Spectrum.
ZXP: Which of your game do you think is the most
successful?
ASH: Naturally, 12TK. In it I put
so much effort and time that it requested
then and simply become part of me). Ho
heavy, to be honest, I see her I can not
before she had me tired. But in Leh
gotron still be happy to re
zhus.
ZXP: Tell me, were there any couriers
unions, associated with your toys?
ASH: E. .. As such did not seem to be. Inte
esting case was when Deja Vu
I attributed the creation of a pair of toys,
and immediately went to the letter: required
further, offering some of the
changes, and the like. Funny that
in these games was given a real AB
torus programs, and even his address, but
nobody paid any attention to it. Ca
Apparently the same author (Paradox'u of the Great
Onions) no feedback on the program so
and not sent.
ZXP: A trivial question - will continue
mapping the "12 secret book?
ASH: No, no! If the first part I
started writing for fun and to
be written only because the people of the village
toyanno asked about it, the latter
Part I began to do just for the sake of
money. But since profit
"12TK: mission" was minimal, at
ivno would assume that for the second
Part 12TK: People & Snakes "I bummer
Hsia more.
ZXP: Somewhere slipped phrase that you
did "12TK" for three years. Is this true?
ASH: Absolutely! If someone is completely read
scrolling in Legotrone then Naver
nyaka seen coming soon to 12TK, and the
Legotron was written in 1995. Already in
that time I had a scenario in
processing in 12TK. However, in the beginning it
conceived as adventyura, but then
it was decided to remake it in RPG.
ZXP: What was the hardest to create
game?
ASH: Bring the whole matter to the finals, so
I awfully tired of it ;-). Therefore,
in the final version remained something ka
Kie errors that simply did not
have the strength to remove.
ZXP: Were there any problems with "piracy" when
distributing the game? If yes, then no
Would you like to take this opportunity to Zach
leymit scam? ;))
ASH: Certain issues were. Present
shaft, the goodness of his heart, a copy of the game
one Kovrov dunce. He is her
sly twisted and started all svappit
who are not lazy. But did not know small that
He sucked in a large way to the end
his version can not come through. ;) Then
was a case where a hacker sent me
broken with his version 12TK autogen
Raph and the signature of the game is broken
for fun and to spread
will not. To his credit -
demolition carried out professionally and on
spaces swap until caught.
ZXP: Is there a game of any hidden
part, cheats, etc.?
ASH: Duc, Elah, burns, of course ;-). The game
There are two hidden side of the digital
sound and a few cheat'ov. About
hidden parts of Esme already wrote: Fune
ral, Kr.News and BornDead, if not oshi
bayus. Some comrades have found one
Hence, regarding it as true, extra
opportunity program, but it is nowhere
not yet described. I think it is not necessary until
disclose all the features of the program
12TK: mission. But it is high time distribution
say about the Cheetah in the demo: if
during the game type on the keyboard
word MELAH, then recover the energy
energy; GISELA, then raised all
"Monsters".
ZXP: Tell us about your future plans.
ASH: If possible, periodically you'll
let e-Pape heresy. Sometimes it will be
out fresh versions of Modern Word'a.
In addition to these two projects, something
seriously, I do not plan to. BYE
do not plan ... Can vzbredet ka
Kaya something nasty in the head and svarga
nude something in the style of Black Fury.
ZXP: A, but computers do you have ka
Kya a hobby? (Books, music, collection
scrap ... :)))
ASH: I like fantasy / science fiction and hard
music: I have blocked all den
books mixed up with the tapes;).
I once had chickenpox vittafili
her ... (No, it's not contagious, it's like
philately, collecting only not nearly
curves mark, and the paper ring cigar
;) ... But then, gaining over 300 species
gave up - I myself do not smoke, but people
interest only: "A pop kurnut
robovat is that? ";-).
ZXP: Well, for the first time is enough
Hex. Maybe you want to
Therefore, anything to say hello to? ;)
ASH: Hello! ZH8-)
ZXP: Finally - your wishes "people."
ASH: Bratushki, support domestic
manufacturers of software - if not
financially, at least morally. May
it is your letter of praise for the
the author liked the programs you
give him the strength just as well stay on the Spectrum and
write a lot of good. Pi
shite is not only known lichnos
tyam and groups, write for beginners - they
Your support is much more important.
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