Terra

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'''Release type:''' [[Incomplete]]<br />
'''Release date:''' [[2001]][[Category: 2001]]<br />
'''Levels:''' 19<br />
'''Author:''' [[Robert Brandon]]<br />
'''Related games:''' ''[[Skate Board]]'', ''[[Raven]]''
}}[[Category:Pending articles]]<center>'''FULL ENTRY COMING SOON!'''</center>

Game three of the "SkateGhoul Trilogy", which also includes ''[[Skate Board]]'' and ''[[Raven]]''.

Borrows a bit from ''[[Fox World]]'' -- another attempt at taking an existing game and turning it into an adventure platformer.

[[File:SkateGhoulSprite.png|center]]

== Story ==

N/A

== Instructions ==

[[File:TerraShot.png|thumb|320px|Searching for freedom, in ''Terra'']]

=== CONTROLS ===

For best results, please use the numerical keypad.

* 4, 6: Skate left, right
* 7, 8, 9: Ollie Left, Up, Right

=== TRICKS ===

* 0 Ins: Board Slide
* Enter: 5-0 Grind (Do on rails)
* +: Spin
* *: Kickflip
* -: Nosebone

== Credits ==

Designed by
: Robert Brandon

Engine and Tools by
: Recreational Software Designs

Edited by
: EJR Tairne

== Background ==

John Brandon:
: Game by my brother using graphics I created for ''[[Skate Board]]'', and some new background graphics he created for this concept. I guess it was part maze game, and part side scroller. Knowing my brother, the levels are probably actually completable.

Rob Brandon:
: This is the game that incorporated the [[CarsonCity314's Particle Game|hacky particle system]] previously mentioned on a Reddit thread:

: ''So for a hacky particle effect, you could make a tiny monster that moved in a random direction while playing an animation (such as white->yellow->red->black for a flame-like thing) and would automatically die at the end of its animation. You'd then set some map tile to emit them and enjoy.''

: ''...yeah. Not amazing.''

== Availability ==

Prior to this archive's online presence, this game is not known to be publicly available.

== Archive history ==

On January 21st 2010, Rob Brandon pseudonymously responded to a [http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/as3la/a_thoroughly_modern_particle_system/ Reddit thread] with a passing comment about Game-Maker. When pressed about his history with the software, he replied that all of his games were stored on a couple of defunct computers, either inaccessible or destroyed.

Over 31 months later on August 23th 2012, John Brandon commented on a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlmrkAtaeQs YouTube clip] that he had found an archive of his and his brother's old games. The next day he composed a long e-mail describing the contents of a jumbled collection of gameware files, adding up to an ostensible sixteen games. All of the games were in pieces, many of them incomplete.

Over the next five months, through regular consultation, the games were all reassembled as well as the materials would permit. The games were reconstructed or otherwise recovered on the following dates:

{| style="color:black;"
|
* October 28th: ''[[Seal Boarders]]''.
* October 31st: ''[[Seal Boarders 2]]''.
* November 5th: ''[[Zarlor 2]]''.
* November 7th: ''[[Skate Board]]''.
* November 10th: ''[[Fox World]]''.
|
* December 9th: ''[[Foxy Dimensions]]''.
* December 16th: ''[[Fox Party]]''.
* December 17th: ''[[Ulysses]]'', ''[[Penguin War]]'', and ''[[Raven]]''.
* December 19th: ''[[Skatenig]]'', ''[[Slot Car]]'', and ''[[Anime]]''.
* December 21st: ''[[Droid]]'', ''[[Void Raiders]]'', and ''[[Terra]]''.
|}

== Links ==

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* [http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/as3la/a_thoroughly_modern_particle_system/ Reddit thread]
* '''[http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/java/terra.php Play ''Terra'' online]'''

== Downloads ==

* '''''[http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/downloads/terra.zip Terra]''''' (191.1 kB)

[[Category: Incomplete games]]
[[Category: Brandon Enterprises]]
[[Category: Robert Brandon]]
[[Category: New discoveries]]
[[Category: SkateGhoul series]]
[[Category: Games needing maps]]
[[Category: Arizona]]
[[Category: United States]]

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