悪魔城ドラキュラ

konami: put alucard in the 3d card game and give him an evolution line

oreca battle artists: but… Why

Here’s something people would probably be interested in. At least as far back as 2010, a pixel artist known as Thaddeus was rebuilding Simon’s Quest, and composer Optomon was contributing music. There may have been more people on the team. A video or two on YouTube showed it in motion, and it looked lovely. I can’t stress how skilled of an artist Thaddeus is. As so often happens with these projects, unfortunately, the hack was abandoned, those videos were deleted, Thaddeus disappeared (perhaps they requested the videos’ deletion?), and all that remained were a handful of screenshots that someone had managed to save.

But it’s hard to find those screenshots, so here they are, contained in an album on Imgur. I’ve enlarged some and attached them to this post as a preview. The last image is one I edited by removing the character sprites, shifting the palette to something more like a late autumn afternoon, and doing a recoloration of the buildings’ bricks and woodwork to give them a warmer, more rustic tone.

Several tracks intended for the game can still be heard on Optomon’s account.

Aljiba - Trick Manor - Mad Forest - Rainshadow - Lavish Empire - Wallachia