#MAGIC CARPET GAME PC#

Despite kept being advertised in magazine ads and catalogs, in addition to internal documents from Atari Corp. The port was announced during the same month for a general 1995 release and later slated for a December 1995 release. Atari Jaguar CDĪ port for the Atari Jaguar CD was in development after Atari Corporation made a deal with Electronic Arts to bring some of the latter's titles to the system in the middle of 1995, with Magic Carpet being among them. Gaming journalist Ed Lomas reported the technical differences from the PlayStation version as: the sky is animated in a 'sliding wallpaper' fashion (whereas it moves in 3D in the PlayStation version), the sprites are more detailed, and the shadows lack the translucency effect. It is largely identical to the PlayStation version, and likewise includes the Hidden Worlds expansion. There was also a port for the Sega Saturn console. This version does not support multiplayer, but does contain the Hidden Worlds expansion as a reward for finishing the game in 'Normal' mode. Enemy wizards now have a health-bar over their heads, so the player can see when they are close to death.

#MAGIC CARPET GAME PC#

As in the PC game, one can only save at the end of the level. The map has changed slightly, and some of the monster graphics and enemy wizard graphics are slightly different. The PlayStation version retains many of the PC version's spells.

3D glasses came with the game package and VFX1 Headgear was supported. The game supported anaglyph 3D and Autostereogram effects. The game was promoted with a marketing budget of $307,600. Instead, when the carpet approaches an obstacle, it automatically ascends to fly over the obstacle. The magic carpet can be piloted in three dimensions, similar to a helicopter, although the player cannot roll and it is impossible to crash. As long as the player's castle is at least partly intact, the player character cannot die. Dying without a castle forces the player to restart the level since the game does not have a mid-level save feature. Upon death, the player character respawns at his castle. Besides storing mana, the player's castle also serves as a home base for the player character where he can regain health and mana. Īs the player expands the castle, it spawns additional balloons and armed guards that defend the castle against attacks by enemy wizards. The player character can have up to two spells equipped at a time, one for each hand. Greater amounts of mana stored in the castle allow the player to expand the castle and cast more powerful spells. To accomplish this, the player has to possess the mana so that mana-collecting balloons bring them to the player's castle (the balloons ignore mana that are unpossessed or possessed by an enemy wizard).

The player can destroy enemy monsters and then salvage the mana they leave behind, represented by pearls of varying sizes. The total mana level is fixed in each world. The goal in each world is to build a castle and fill it with the necessary percentage of the total mana in the current level (or 'world'), restoring it to 'equilibrium'. The player has to visit several small spherical 'worlds' (45 in the original game and an additional 25 in the expansion). Only his apprentice survived and his goal is to restore the worlds to equilibrium. One wizard hoped to end everything with an all-powerful spell but instead only left the worlds shattered. The battling wizards began using more destructive spells and summoning deadly monsters, the latter of which often turned against them. Worse, many corrupt wizards began turning to mana for their own nefarious purposes, eventually leading to war between them. According to this back story, mana was discovered and though it initially had beneficial uses, the quest for it made the lands barren. The story is told in a cutscene that depicts the pages of a book being flipped. The player plays a wizard on a magic carpet flying over water, mountains and other terrain while destroying monsters and rival wizards (which are controlled by the computer) and collecting 'mana' which is gathered by hot air balloons and stored in the player's own castle.

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