Topic: What the heck happened to that Simon's Quest hack?

[Dremn]

Awhile ago there was a promising Simon's Quest hack with improved sprites and new music that looked amazing, but I haven't heard anything about it in awhile. I couldn't find any footage of it left but I found the youtube channel of the guy doing the music for it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Optomon/videos

I guess it was canned? It looked fantastic, shame if it was.

As far as I know it didn't have a special title or anything, it was just referred to as another hack.

[Abnormal Freak]

This was the one with the lush new graphics and terrain designs? I was wondering about it a few weeks ago.

[Dremn]

This was the one with the lush new graphics and terrain designs? I was wondering about it a few weeks ago.

Yep, that's the one. Had new towns too.

[crisis]

as is the fate with most fan made projects, it most likely got "indefinitely put on hold" for a variety of reasons (other priorities, job, personal/technical issues, etc.)

most common answer given when the creator(s) is asked when itll be released?

"itll be released when its done"
 

[Foffy]

Yeah, it got cancelled. I forget the reasons why.

[Dremn]

Yeah, it got cancelled. I forget the reasons why.

That's a massive shame.

[X]

Yeah, it got cancelled. I forget the reasons why.

Da f**k??! I was really looking forward to playing it too! Damn... That's a real shame. To me this hack was more then just a hack. It looks like it was built from the ground, up. Virtually everything about it save for the mechanics is near-original. This is really disappointing to hear. Why doesn't the author hand the project over to someone else to finish it up for them?

[Inccubus]

Optomon was doing the new music and he did actually release what he had been working on.
IIRC he took what was done and used it as a base for his current project, Pyron, which you can see on his YouTube page which was linked to in the first post.

[X]

I downloaded that soundtrack and listen to it on occasion. Some really good original tunes in that album too!

[Inccubus]

Indeed. I created a custom soundtrack using his tunes the original CV2 music and a couple of other covers I found around that are in the CV2 style.

[Aridale]

yeah I made an album out of his release too. Listen to it all the time. Its a shame this fell thru Thaddeus was doin the sprites and hes one of the best Ive ever seen. Whatever happened to him anyway?

[Inccubus]

I remember hearing that he had enlisted to some branch of the armed forces. But that was already years ago.

[JILost]

Is there an NSF and/or MP3s available somewhere?