{"id":809,"date":"2011-03-01T15:40:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T15:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2012-12-13T13:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T13:31:05","slug":"lords-of-midnight-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/01\/lords-of-midnight-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Lords of Midnight – 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1984, maybe 1985, my brother Darren, introduced me to a game on his zx spectrum – Lords of Midnight<\/a>. It’s a wargame\/adventure game which was revolutionary in its time. Written by Mike Singleton<\/a>. You can read much about the history of the game on its wiki page.<\/p>\n

In about 1990 I was playing around with a new Spectrum+3<\/a> that I had bought and decided to reverse engineer Lords of Midnight. I just wanted to know how it worked.<\/p>\n

After performing the reverse engineering, I ported the game to the PC. This indirectly led me to getting a job in the games industry when another industry legend Jon Ritman saw the project and suggested I should think about joining the games industry, and thus everything else that has followed in my career over the last 20 years.<\/p>\n

My port was released along side Mike’s official 3rd part of the game. Lords of Midnight:The Citadel in 1995.<\/p>\n

In 1999 I started work on an updated version of Lords of Midnight<\/a> and Doomdark’s Revenge. A project that was never finished and over the years has fallen by the wayside. But much good came out of it.<\/p>\n

My website ICEMARK.com ( Icemark being the land that Doomdark’s Revenge was set in ) was setup and covers much Lords of Midnight material. It has become the unofficial central site for midnight related material.<\/p>\n

My reverse engineering of Lords of Midnight and a number of other spectrum titles that followed, led to me performing some work for a New York law firm on 3d Patent Case 4,734,690<\/p>\n

In 2004 I wrote a 10 page article about Lords of Midnight<\/a> in which I also interview Mike Singleton. It was my first piece of published work. Which in turn led to a number subsequent articles.<\/p>\n

I host a website for the game Midnight\/MU<\/a> developed originally Jean-Yves Rouffiac, a multi-user take on the Midnight games, and have been involved in the development in some small way over the years.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, that Lords of Midnight has played a major part of my life for the last 27 years.<\/p>\n

So, taking all the above into account, you can imagine my jubilation, when Mike emailed me at the end of January to discuss the concept of us collaborating on a Lords of Midnight project….<\/p>\n

… further details of this new project to follow…<\/p>\n

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