Nectarine

https://www.studio-quena.be/cyborgjeff/site/2000/07/08/krystal-avalanche/

For our second participation to a Demoparty, the ambitions of our P.P.P. Team were upwards. While the brother Pype was busy debugging the Assembler code of his Shoot’m up project, it was agreed that his colleague from the University, Christian Lemasson, would join us during the Inscene 2K!

On my side, I had proposed the idea which seemed to me on paper very simple to create a « clone » of the game Puzzle Bobble in the universe of Bilou & Bouli, our mascots!

Did the idea simply reach Kriss? I actually have no idea, but that didn’t stop me, less than a week before the deadline, from creating a little introductory and an ingame music for the Krystal Avalanche project which would be developed in less than 100kb and under Linux, that’s it!

Finally, at this time, we had only had a few opportunities to play this Puzzle Bobble! Discovered two years ago on an arcade near the bowling alley of Sparrenduin at the Belgian coast.

The two heroes of Bubble Bobble had to throw colored bubbles in the top of the screen to make explode sets of the same colors. Simple, efficient, colorful, fun… that would fit perfectly with my « copy/bilou-aste » approach.

The most attentive will have understood that the Krystal is obviously a wink to Christian’s first name… but what about the Avalanche… would I have had the opportunity to play a Puzzle Bobble clone at the time?

Anyway, I’ll bring back a Neo-Geo emulator from this Inscene 2K, to make up for this ghost project, since Christian and Raffaele won’t be with us that year!

Thanks to : Christian ‘Kriss’ LEMASSON, Sylvain ‘Pype’ MARTIN, Raffaele BRANCALEONI