The World of CD-i Chronicle #10
For this review, there is a lot to talk about!
The Apprentice is for sure one of the absolutely best games available on CD-i, this is a must have and a must play title!
This platformer game from The Vision Factory (1994) and published by Philips Media is graphically perfect, with amazing animations!
Shikotei, our website member, have just completed a completely insane project!
9 years ago he got this crazy idea to convert a CD-i game into a Windows game… Yes… 9 years of intensive work!
The game selected was The Apprentice of course! This game is for sure one of the best you can find on CD-i and maybe one of the best platform game of the 90’s!
CONGRATULATIONS Shokitei for this amazing work!
You are crazy and we need more crazy guys like you!
Shikotei:
After having started almost 9 years ago in Excel, porting this to PHP, porting that once again to Director in Lingo, and finally porting everything to Unity in C# this game has come a long way!
The Apprentice remade for PC is the project of just me whose idea of a challenge is programming everything from scratch. No black boxes, no bug-free engines, no such thing of any kind. Stupid? Perhaps.. but it got me knowledge beyond what I thought I needed to make a game! Knowledge that should enable me to make another one if I ever finish this one.
My version of The Apprentice requires an ISO of the original CD-i disc to run. It is needed because all the sprites, backgrounds, music, sound effects, and level layouts are stored there. None of them are aboard the game itself because that would be a copyright infringement. It is my way of trying to protect myself against those who hold the rights to the Apprentice.
Every asset I extract from the IMG file is kept in memory and so nothing is actually stored on the hard drive.
Download the PC version game right here!
For more information about how to play it and also other Shikotei projects, please visit his website at www.shikotei.com!
A forum topic has been created so Shikotei can answer your questions!