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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Stamp-sprite-based art program name | Posted by: jessenator on 2019-03-22 16:00:52
I can't for the life of me figure out the name of this program I used. I'll throw out what I remember, but it's been bugging me that I can recall the name.
Back in Jr High one of my art teachers had some arty program on his (probably LC AIO) Mac that was completely sprite/stamp based— no brushes or anything that I can recall. Its styling was sort of that early '90s fantasy/fairy elements, but I recall it was mainly subterranean… lots of animated color swatches. Lots of crystalline looking things. Not too much in the way of humanoids that I remember, maybe a few. Mostly it was sprites (the mythical creatures), fairies, moss, vines, crystals, other foliage, etc.
Most of its premise, I think, was decorating a cave… I want to keep calling it kaleidoscope, but that's the appearance manager control panel.
Anyway, not pressing, but wondered if anyone else here had used that program before. This would be 1995–96ish.
Edit: lots of prism type objects and such as well.
| Posted by: Scott Baret on 2019-03-24 22:58:31
A long shot here, but could it have possibly been Storybook Weaver from MECC?
| Posted by: jessenator on 2019-03-25 06:32:19
A long shot here, but could it have possibly been Storybook Weaver from MECC? Interesting! Never heard of that one, but it looks cool, and definitely a game I would've like to play at that age.
The one I'm thinking of was almost purely "art" mode, with no real game/interactive elements beyond placing stamps. (That I remember anyway). It was all fantasy, no real world environments.
I don't recall if it was a demo version or a special, educational release, but it had a timer built into it. That's another feature. And there was only one background, possibly because it was a demo...
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2019-03-25 08:21:31
One of the magazines put out a "Games" CD that had a crap ton of shareware games and commercial game demos on it in that time frame. It was most likely one of Macaddict's monthly issue CDs, but a MacWorld "Special Edition CD" keeps nagging at the back of my mind. That's probably your best bet for tracking down titles. The CD may be in the garden?
| Posted by: jessenator on 2019-03-25 09:06:55
FOUND IT! http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/flying-colors you set me off on the right track, @Trash80toHP_Mini though!
The splash screen is the prism with wings that I remember. WTF did I think it was called "kaleidoscope" ?
I must've only used the demo as a kid, because even the preview has more clipart and backgrounds than I remember.
| Posted by: jessenator on 2019-03-25 09:40:22
THIS is probably where the demo came from: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/alge-blaster-3
Alge-Blaster 3 came with Flying Colors as a demo! Made sense, the Math and Art teachers in my middle school were mac freaks and pretty friendly, so I'm sure they plopped it on there.
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2019-03-25 22:26:46
Glad you found it, have fun! Around that time I set up Solarian II, Patriot Command and BMOW's fabulous Tetris Max up on the Quadra 630 in the rug rat's room from that GAMES CD for Wednesday family game nights.. My wonderful ex got some mileage out of Tetris Max and so did the kiddo on other days of the week. Thanks, Big Tomato! :approve:
| Posted by: jessenator on 2019-03-26 21:45:03
Hopefully once it's recapped the iisi will be one game machine for my kiddos.
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