Splook for BeOS

Credits & History

History

It's rare that someone comes up to me and asks, "Who are you?" Even so, I've decided to address the issue here, at the end of the online documentation.

Bastion Products
('baschen: something that is considered a stronghold.' Webster's 3rd, def. 3) Bastion Products is a small development and consulting firm for MacOS and BeOS (with experience with Apple //s, IBM-compatibles, and Unices) started in 1988 by Greg Weston, who didn't want to go to college and was trying to prove he didn't need to. He was, for quite some time, unsuccessful in that endeavor and spent time majoring in Architecture and Applied Math. Neither worked out, and he currently works (in the real world) for a reasonably cool programming concern which doesn't care about degrees, but does rely on Windows a little too much. Almost entirely self-taught in programming, he has been lucky enough to usually be surrounded by people who don't laugh too hard when he messes up unless it's really funny.

The Historic Thing
This project started over a year later when I was inspired by a game I saw elsewhere on campus, Ataxx, and decided to write a Mac version so I could practice for free. Soon ideas were flying about making this a completely new thing instead of a personal toy. Splook is the result (and, coincidentally, far enough beyond the scope of Ataxx to be released in its own right). Most of the other people mentioned in the credits are or were NJIT students at one time or another and they were all mostly helpful in some way or another during production, at least for moral support (except for Paul).

Credits

Design
Gregory Weston, Joe Mucchiello, David Charlap
Ideas
Bill Barlettano, Greg Belmonte, Jim Carstensen, Jennifer Weston, Michael Gaines, Edz (edge) Iskra, James Murphy, Bill Simonitis, Ryan Tranter, Staff of The Vector at NJIT
Testing
Brian Hall, Robin Jackson, Jens Kappe, Guido Korber, David Kwok, Tina Marie, Ingemar Ragnemalm, Andrew White, et al.
Tools
Development - Metrowerks CodeWarrior
Graphics - POV-Ray
Sounds - (Mostly) Bill Barlettano via SoundEdit Pro
Animation - adapted from Tony Miles' SpriteWorld library
Documentation - BBEdit, ColorIt, and Transparency

More Information

Players who enjoy Splook are encouraged to look at this page. Alain Beyrand has put together an excellent site of information about Ataxx, the arcade game which inspired Splook, and several other interpretations of the same basic rule-set. (If you prefer French, try here.)

All trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

Copyright 1998, Bastion Products

Bastion Products and Splook are trademarks of Gregory Weston
BeBox and BeOS are trademarks of Be, Inc.

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