The Microlearn Game Pack II project was started in 1994. I was hired to do some additional bitmaps first and ended up with doing the entire
graphics...
It was a set of 8 arcade style games for OS/2 - an operating system superior to Windows at that time, but nowadays only used by a steadily decreasing number of private users.
The GamePack was released in 4th quarter of 1995, but went down after a few and quite troublesome months - just like its basic OS would do some time later. Looking back it's quite funny to see the first review of the GamePack in the OS/2 e-Zine! - in the same issue there's an article titled "Why Warp will succeed: OS/2's
Time Has Come!".
OS/2 changed into an valuable solution for big companies (like banks) - too bad that this wasn't the best platform for arcade games. Nevertheless, I've learned a lot about what one can do with 16 colors in a small image, so who cares about the fact that nowadays everyone is interested in 3D true color real-time environments? What I enjoyed most during that time, except for creating
the intro graphics for the games (maybe because they had to be done in one resolution and color-depth only) were the animations for the OS/2 WebExplorer status window. I've converted my favourite ones to animated GIFs (see below).
More info on the Game Pack itself, including screenshots of the games themselves is still available from the MicroLearn Nordic Homepage mirror at the MSR Development site.
