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Firstly, I'd like to thank Radiant very much for his dedication to making spectacular games, and excellent tools. I realize all of the years of hard work that Pieter here had to go through, just to let all of us fans have fun. But there's a story behind this, how I discovered the Caravel version of DROD.

So in 1999, I was playing the Demo version of Webfoot DROD, but soon got bored. So I googled for a new game to play, and found Spiderweb Software. So for a few years, 2000 to 2004 if I remember correctly, I played Nethergate, Avernum, and awaiting the sequel to Geneforge I. I soon got bored of waiting for it, and returned to the Webfoot DROD demo which I found off of a CD called 100 Smash Games for Win95. Played it for a month, quit, then played Geneforge II. It was pretty fun, but was only a demo. So I searched the Spiderweb Software site, and I found some older games, the only one of which was compatible on Windows; Subterra. I downloaded it, played it, and I LOVED IT.

I googled SubTerra, found Crystalshard.net and downloaded the full version. Made a few not-so-great levels, and got to rank II or III, then my computer just randomly crashed. Not SubTerra's fault, but my computer's. Its very old and crashes every year or so. But when I was playing SubTerra, I remembered an ending screen, one that I remembered actually playing. It was DROD. Not the buggy Webfoot version, some new upgraded one by these jokers named Caravel. I visited their site in late 2005, still having dial-up, only downloaded DROD: Architects Edition. Looked very similar to the old one, but much nicer, and with an editor. So I made a few not-so-great levels for that, and enjoyed playing usermade levels.

In early 2006 I got DSL, and happily downloaded DROD: Journey to the Rooted Hold. Enjoyed it, played a few more usermade holds, and decided to join the forums in Mid-April. You guys accepted me with open arms. So I browsed the forums, organized it a bit by making a few Master List of some boards, and rediscovered SubTerra. Downloaded it again, and enjoyed it again.

To sum it all up, that's why I'm here. Because of Radiant, and that end game screen of SubTerra, I found DROD. And now that Radiant is making a SubTerra 2, it just brought back those memories. So I'd just like to thank Radiant, because without him, I wouldn't be here. Thank you Radiant! :)

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12-30-2006 at 05:36 PM
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Nicely put, and I second thanking Radiant for his time and dedication. Must try out this DROD game you mention though. I presume it's 3D and has lots of guns? ;)
12-30-2006 at 05:49 PM
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:lol Hmm.. DROD... Demented Remakes Of Ducks?

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12-30-2006 at 05:54 PM
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Well, in the subject of finding DROD, I'd like to thank Lux. If I hadn't visited the Sillysoft homepage one day, I never would have found it. BTW I still play online once and a while... ;)

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The way I found SubTerra was that I already played Rocks n Diamonds, and I was searching on the internet for other Boulderdash games. Then I came across SubTerra, and got hooked.
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Hmm. I don't think Radiant has seen this thread yet... It'd be a pity if it went unnoticed by him...

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12-31-2006 at 07:07 PM
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Oh, I've seen it :) thanks, everybody.

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Just started playing it a few days ago and am addicted.
Pretty good game,maybe the best Boulder Dash successor i've played so far.
Especially the generator items are great, the way they trigger machine-like sequences. More games should have stuff like that.

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UrAvgAzn wrote:
I searched the Spiderweb Software site, and I found some older games, the only one of which was compatible on Windows; Subterra. I downloaded it, played it, and I LOVED IT.
That's similar to how I found SubTerra. Around 1998 or so, I bought a shareware CD titled something like "1000 Games for Windows." On it I found one of Spiderweb's games, Exile III, which naturally led me to their site; this, in turn, led me to SubTerra, which was still shareware at the time. I played and replayed the unregistered portion of the Prime set, until I discovered that the game had become freeware. It wasn't until recently that I found this forum, when I started making levels and was looking for somewhere to post them, and Stew Boy pointed me here.

(off topic, I think) By the way, all of Spiderweb's games are compatible with Windows, except for Galactic Core, Lost Souls, and Ocean Bound.

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my computer just randomly crashed. Not SubTerra's fault, but my computer's. Its very old and crashes every year or so.
Maybe it's time for a new computer. I'm looking to upgrade mine, especially since most of its hardware is either obsolete or malfunctioning. Fortunately, the hard drive's okay, so I plan to buy a cheap kit to externalize it when I get my new computer.

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I've downloaded and played just about all of the spidweb software games and geneforge 4 is my favorite. :fun :thumbsup :D i've bought Blades of Exile and avernum 3 once...

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05-02-2007 at 06:38 PM
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Uh, neathro, the last post in this thread was from about two months ago. You really shouldn't necrobump.

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sometimes thread necromancy is valid. it depends on the context. generally what we do is let the moderators moderate.

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But this isn't valid. It has barely anything to do with the thread.

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