Shaw's Nightmare Presskit

Factsheet

Developer:
Mickey Productions
Based in Kenya

Release date:
March 19 2013

Platforms:
Windows
DOS

Description

Shaw's Nightmare is a DOS 3D game by Mickey Productions. It uses the BUILD engine by Ken Silverman. It is about a boy called Shaw who fell asleep and is having a nightmare, and must stay alive.

History

Let's start from the beginning. My sister had an idea for a family series. It was called Yogus. I got an idea to make a game from it. Of course the series didn't pan out but the game continued. Originally it was supposed to be a 2D game but I made it 3D instead to be more original.

Anyway production started in 2007, I made many textures and even thought out some of the levels. The plan was a Doom-like game. But I didn't have an executable because I didn't know how to program a 3D engine so I cancelled it. I revived the project in 2008, after having found out about the Build engine. It had satisfied the features the game was supposed to have and some more. Then I thought the game should be more like Duke Nukem 3D or Shadow Warrior but I still needed an executable. So I asked for some at JonoF's Build engine forums. Nuno Martinez came to help and he even got the basic rendering to work.

Now then the game was to be sold. When I tried to contact Ken Silverman on the forum, Nuno got annoyed and left the project. So I was left without a programmer. In 2009, I tried to program it myself but I couldn't get it to work. In May, I tried the Allegro forums. But they weren't willing to work for a DOS game. I tried (and failed) to convince them that they should work for it. Finally in June, I got it to work. From there I was adding features here and there. Eventually I was getting tired of the project and began to lose interest.

In early 2011, I revived the project but the same happened again. In October, I started the project again. I was actually getting close to a beta but unfortunately in January, my dad reformatted the computer so I lost the entire project. I tried to recover it but to no avail. At the end of August I restarted the project again. Now I did almost exactly the same steps I employed in the earlier incarnation. A guy named Eduardo Sanchez Barrios came and I sent him the latest work. He said he was working on the textures. But unfortunately he stopped responding. I tried several times to talk to him but to no avail.

I struggled to complete the game. In March 2013, I made a demo version for people to try out. But there were few responses. I tried to get Eduardo back, even joining Twitter to contact him but to no avail (He wouldn't get back to me until a year later). Eventually, by the end of December the game was finally complete. I made subsequent releases to mostly fix bugs.

That's pretty much the end of the story. If you have completely read through this history, I thank you. I also hope you will also download the game if you haven't already. I know it isn't a "state of the art" game but most have found it enjoyable.

Features

It's a retro game
It's based on the Build Engine
It can be modified by users
It takes place in the world of nightmares
It's a Doom clone

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About Mickey Productions

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This is a team comprising only of me. We are in development of Shaw's Nightmare II. We require pixel artists and level designers experienced in Build Engine. Our previous project was Shaw's Nightmare which was done by only one man. We are aiming to resurrect DOS and Doom-like games.

More information
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