mackie
Local Moderator 
Hang out by the bank if you have good aim!
Posts: 42 
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Post by mackie on Aug 9, 2015 18:54:02 GMT
I see we have been adding members over the last while. Great to see the interest in this forum. I would link to this forum on Facebook except most of my friends certainly don't have a clue what a classic this game was. Also they will think I am an old nerd! Welcome to our new members!
Mackie
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Jake
Administrator 
Playtesting the latest build of the game
Posts: 385
Home Planet: Jondd
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: Atari ST
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1988
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Post by Jake on Aug 19, 2015 17:13:06 GMT
Thank you! We love that people are finding the forums and getting involved! And yes, many people don't share the same memories of how revolutionary the original game was "back in the day," but we hope that this new incarnation of the game will appeal to new folks as well.
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Kailef
BETA MANAGER 
Vanguard of the leading edge
Posts: 427
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: Apple
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1985 (I think)
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Post by Kailef on Sept 5, 2015 16:35:34 GMT
Thank you! We love that people are finding the forums and getting involved! And yes, many people don't share the same memories of how revolutionary the original game was "back in the day," but we hope that this new incarnation of the game will appeal to new folks as well. I'm sure it will. From what I've seen, you are clearly not trying to go crazy with adding things that change the way the game works. You mentioned a few little surprises like abandoned colonies and so forth, but for the most part you're leaving everything that made the first game so much fun in place. As such, I'm sure it will be embraced by the current generation. There are plenty of fun indie games that are released on GoG and Steam that get lots of exposure, and Sundog Resurrection can at least find a strong niche in the indie market. |
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mackie
Local Moderator
Hang out by the bank if you have good aim!
Posts: 42
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Post by mackie on Sept 13, 2015 19:55:27 GMT
Whoo Hoo! Today the 50th member joined our merry little band of Sundog fans! I want to send out a warm welcome to Jens the 50th pilot recruit. Your prize is in the mail.....just kidding..  |
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Brew
Beta Tester 
Posts: 14
Home Planet: W'orrad
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: AtariST
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1989
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Post by Brew on Sept 18, 2015 23:03:41 GMT
Thank you all for the work on this project. I have been following the web page for over two years. I have been searching the net for 16 years, waiting for this to take place. Love it. My 4 brothers and I play this game more then any other since its original release. Thanks again.
Brew (from Wormed)
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Brian Hanifin
Beta Tester
Posts: 7
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: Atari ST TOS
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1986
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Post by Brian Hanifin on Feb 15, 2016 22:42:12 GMT
The count is up to 81 now.
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Kailef
BETA MANAGER
Vanguard of the leading edge
Posts: 427
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: Apple
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1985 (I think)
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Post by Kailef on Feb 16, 2016 21:59:55 GMT
I'm confident that there are tens of thousands of fans out there that just haven't made their way to our little corner of the Internet and heard about this game just yet.
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mackie
Local Moderator
Hang out by the bank if you have good aim!
Posts: 42
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Post by mackie on Feb 21, 2016 4:59:20 GMT
Won't be long before we break 100. Welcome to all our new members. Once the game is out, we will leave 100 in the dust!
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SteveS
Beta Tester
Growing older by the minute...
Posts: 23
Home Planet: Snowball
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: Atari and Apple
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1985 or 1986. First PC game I ever finished.
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Post by SteveS on Feb 22, 2016 0:38:25 GMT
I've been lurking for 15 years already waiting for this game!!! I'm not getting any younger and can't afford to cryogen myself yet. Let's step it up!
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Kailef
BETA MANAGER
Vanguard of the leading edge
Posts: 427
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: Apple
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1985 (I think)
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Post by Kailef on Feb 22, 2016 1:22:03 GMT
Yeah, and even if you cryogenically preserve yourself, you never know if some stupid space jock might just leave you in storage and fly around randomly for his whole life, and never thaw you out. |
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2shay
Beta Tester
Posts: 1
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: Apple ][e
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1984
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Post by 2shay on Feb 26, 2016 7:42:42 GMT
Sundog was my favorite game way back in the day when I had an Apple ][e. I kept the computer long after I got my DOS - Windows - OS/2 - machines, just for the sole purpose of playing Sundog. The computer eventually was taken up to the family cabin so more people could experience the awesomeness of this game. I got all my nephews hooked on it and there were lines that formed at the machine at night. Apparently my mother didn't realize the importance of the old Apple ][e computer and donated it to the annual labor day fundraiser at the local camp. Needless to say I was horrified the next time I went up there and couldn't find it! Many years back I was thinking back on the game and did a Google search. To my surprise, there was still quite a following, and some movement on re-creating the game for modern day. I followed the progress, or lack of, for several years and finally resigned myself that it would never come back. Just a few days ago, I was talking with some guys at work about favorite early computer games and brought it up on my laptop to show them about it. To my surprise, the website says the game will soon be in Beta! I can hardly wait to see the old game which will be reborn! Thank you for all of your hard work in making this a reality! Looking forward to it's release!
Thank you,
Ken
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Kailef
BETA MANAGER
Vanguard of the leading edge
Posts: 427
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: Apple
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1985 (I think)
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Post by Kailef on Feb 26, 2016 19:33:21 GMT
Ken, I'm glad you found our little corner of the Internet. It's true, they're soon going to be releasing a beta, and I'm truly excited about it. One thing that makes me happy is that this isn't an attempt to take a great older game and change how it works - The Fallout series for example - This is using the same top down perspective for moving around, and the same cockpit view for flying the Sundog, it's just higher resolution, with more colors. There's other nice additions such as a lot more potential lines of conversation/etc, but Jake and the team aren't reinventing the wheel, they're just making an already great thing better.
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Post by paradachs on Mar 5, 2016 0:58:32 GMT
New member here and glad to be aboard! Like most of you I played this game in the 80's and am happy to see that it will be back soon.
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TecknoSarah
Beta Tester
Simply charmed to see my name in the Former Project Members and Contributers section of the credits
Posts: 27
Home Planet: Shoot
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: Atari 1040 ST and later on emulator.
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1986
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Post by TecknoSarah on Mar 5, 2016 4:54:36 GMT
A friend recently asked me what my favorite game was and I replied that it was Sundog, Frozen Legacy. Of course he wanted to know what the game was about, so after a few moments of racking my brain, I replied:
"Sundog is a space exploration game where you inherited a ship from your uncle, with instructions to found a colony. You fight pirates, buy and sell stock goods and gradually upgrade your colony.
It has hours and hours of unique dialogue for things as simple as haggling over prices in a bar to buy and sell unique items. You can warp your space ship between systems, fly sub-light inside systems and visit each planet. Each planet has multiple cities, each of which sells different goods, which you need in order to level the colony up.
All in all it's an incredibly in-depth game which was so far ahead of it's time that I've still not seen many games like it in the 30 years since it was release."
I left so much out of the description and even then felt I had gone on for too long. I am curious how, in a paragraph or 2, you would describe the game to someone who has never heard of it?
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Jake
Administrator
Playtesting the latest build of the game
Posts: 385
Home Planet: Jondd
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: Atari ST
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1988
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Post by Jake on Mar 6, 2016 22:50:15 GMT
lol Sundog is a tough one to describe in a nutshell because there are so many layers to it. And the fact it was so multi-faceted on an Apple II or Atari ST is really impressive. It's been a mountain of work just replicating what those guys did WAYYYyyyy back in the day.
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