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Star Monkey

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Star Monkey
Genre(s)

Star Monkey is a 3D vertical scrolling shooter (with 2D gameplay), developed and published by Small Rockets in 2001 in a shareware form.[1] The IGN rating is 7.7, saying that "Star Monkey's graphics are really rather impressive".[2] Only one screen resolution of 800x600 is available.[3] The game is set in space, with ability to upgrade the spaceship that slows it movement down.[4] It has 6 levels and size of the game is around 10 megabytes.

Usual gameplay

After 9 months, on 6 September 2001, a gold edition was released, priced at $14.99.[5]

Actually I am very proud of Star Monkey, a Small Rockets game I did. Much like I did with Josh Boggs on SPY mouse, I collaborated closely with a very talented engineer/co-designer called James Brown, on that one. Paul Boulden did the art and Richard Beddow wrote the music. It was a scrolling shoot-em-up that we made very quickly; from start to finish in around 8 months. I was given free reign by Jonathan Small, the head of the company, to make this game, and I was very proud of what we achieved. I felt it was a classic little shooter with some nice ideas and well balanced. To this day I still meet people who say they loved that game, which always surprises me because it wasn't very high profile.[6]

— Adrian Moore

Authors

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Game Design: Adrian Moore[7]

Code, co-game designer: James Brown

Art: Paul Boulden, Christopher Izatt

Sound: Richard Beddow

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References

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  1. ^ "Ballerspiel der alten Schule mit zeitgemäßer Technik". PC Games (in German). 2001-10-11. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  2. ^ I. G. N. Staff (2001-08-21). "Star Monkey". IGN. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
  3. ^ "Обзор Star Monkey". VRgames - Компьютерные игры, кино, комиксы (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-04-14.
  4. ^ "Star Monkey - рецензия и обзор на игру на AG.ru". ag.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-04-14.
  5. ^ Dubin, Jayson (2012-05-04). "Star Monkey Gold version launched". GameZone. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  6. ^ "A legend amongst us: interview with Adrian Moore | tsumea". www.tsumea.com. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
  7. ^ I. G. N. Staff (2001-08-10). "Star Monkey Interview". IGN. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
  8. ^ "Star Monkey (2001)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2024-08-30.