The Lords of Midnight: 8 bit
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An 8-bit style remake of Mike Singleton's 1984 classic adventure game "The Lords of Midnight". The remake remains as faithful as possible to the original game, while adding touch screen controls for the Android platform.
Released under licence, for other versions of the game see the official homepage at http://www.thelordsofmidnight.com
You start the game with 4 characters: Luxor the Moonprince, his son Morkin, Rorthron the Wise, and Corleth the Fey. By recruiting other Lords in the land of Midnight you must defeat the evil Witchking Doomdark in his fortress in Ushgarak.
The Ice Crown is Doomdark's greatest weakness, as well as the source of his terrible power. Help Morkin find the Ice Crown and discover a way to destroy it, ending the battle once and for all.
The game ends when either:
* Morkin and Luxor are both killed
* Morkin is killed and the Citadel at Xajorkith falls
In order to claim victory:
* the people of the Free take Ushgarak or
* the Ice Crown is destroyed
TOUCH CONTROLS
* touch the lower half of screen in "Look" mode to move or change the view, touch the centre to move forwards, touch the left or right side to turn around.
* touch the upper half of the screen in "Look" mode to go to the "Think" screen or the "Select Lord" menu. Touch the shield to select a Lord, touch the text part to go to the "Think" screen.
* Think screen: touch the upper half of the screen to go back to the main view, touch the lower half to go to either the lord selection or to the "choose" menu.
* Select menu items by touching them
OTHER CONTROLS
* Back: will take you to the previous screen. Back on the title screen will exit the game. Back on the main view will take you to the save menu.
* Volume Up/Down: Save a screen shot
* Home: back to the Android home screen (unused)
* Any other buttons: unused
HARDWARE KEYBOARD CONTROLS
Q - move forwards
R - think
T - choose
E - look
U - night
S - save
D - load
1-8 - change to face direction
1:N,2:NE,3:E,4:SE,5:S,6:SW,7:W,8:NW
Letters and numbers on menus indicate the appropriate keyboard shortcut for that option.
Write to SD Card permission is required to save the screen shots.
Released under licence, for other versions of the game see the official homepage at http://www.thelordsofmidnight.com
You start the game with 4 characters: Luxor the Moonprince, his son Morkin, Rorthron the Wise, and Corleth the Fey. By recruiting other Lords in the land of Midnight you must defeat the evil Witchking Doomdark in his fortress in Ushgarak.
The Ice Crown is Doomdark's greatest weakness, as well as the source of his terrible power. Help Morkin find the Ice Crown and discover a way to destroy it, ending the battle once and for all.
The game ends when either:
* Morkin and Luxor are both killed
* Morkin is killed and the Citadel at Xajorkith falls
In order to claim victory:
* the people of the Free take Ushgarak or
* the Ice Crown is destroyed
TOUCH CONTROLS
* touch the lower half of screen in "Look" mode to move or change the view, touch the centre to move forwards, touch the left or right side to turn around.
* touch the upper half of the screen in "Look" mode to go to the "Think" screen or the "Select Lord" menu. Touch the shield to select a Lord, touch the text part to go to the "Think" screen.
* Think screen: touch the upper half of the screen to go back to the main view, touch the lower half to go to either the lord selection or to the "choose" menu.
* Select menu items by touching them
OTHER CONTROLS
* Back: will take you to the previous screen. Back on the title screen will exit the game. Back on the main view will take you to the save menu.
* Volume Up/Down: Save a screen shot
* Home: back to the Android home screen (unused)
* Any other buttons: unused
HARDWARE KEYBOARD CONTROLS
Q - move forwards
R - think
T - choose
E - look
U - night
S - save
D - load
1-8 - change to face direction
1:N,2:NE,3:E,4:SE,5:S,6:SW,7:W,8:NW
Letters and numbers on menus indicate the appropriate keyboard shortcut for that option.
Write to SD Card permission is required to save the screen shots.
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Game History & Updates
What's Changed
version 1.9:
* fixed crashes when saving or loading (android 5.0+)
* fixed a bug that would cause some erratic Doomdark army maneuvers
* add sensor-based landscape orientation changes (android 2.3+)
* use immersive mode (android 4.4+)
* for immersive mode, added "go back" option to exit menus without having to swipe-in to show the Android back button
* added some gestures, swipe to look left/right, long press to show load/save menu
* removed support for devices running 2.1 and earlier (sorry!)
version 1.9:
* fixed crashes when saving or loading (android 5.0+)
* fixed a bug that would cause some erratic Doomdark army maneuvers
* add sensor-based landscape orientation changes (android 2.3+)
* use immersive mode (android 4.4+)
* for immersive mode, added "go back" option to exit menus without having to swipe-in to show the Android back button
* added some gestures, swipe to look left/right, long press to show load/save menu
* removed support for devices running 2.1 and earlier (sorry!)
Version update The Lords of Midnight: 8 bit was updated to version 1.9
More downloads The Lords of Midnight: 8 bit reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
Version update The Lords of Midnight: 8 bit was updated to version 1.8
What are users saying about The Lords of Midnight: 8 bit
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Remember playing this & Doomdarks Revenge years ago, after a quick game it looks exactly the same. Now where did I put that old map.
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Very nicely done. Over 20 years ago that I saw this game for the last time and it still gets me going...
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Fantastic. Brings back memories of all those years ago in front of my spectrum playing this.
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Brilliant conversion
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Unbelivable hit of nostalgia. This was my first (non text based) rpg. To this day my favourite. Outside of AD&D the most fun I had as a kid. Considering the running specs game was brillliant and big. Just play it for yourself
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Brilliant conversion
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Nicely done conversion. Pretty amazing game for an 8 bit machine.
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If you have not played before then beware...if it the kind of game you like then it will take over your life for a few days, weeks....years. Still one of the most enjoyable strategic battle games ever - just make sure you get a map of Midnight for the long campaign.
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No instructions so it was unclear on the text and character screen that tapping in the right hand corner of the display opened more options up. Like hide, seek, recruit etc. Lords of Midnight is too easy to beat if you have figured out the basics. The sequel Doomdarks Revenge has a bit more randomness. Well due to the different factions more at odds with each other. I'd recommend that over this, just sayin.
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Just put it back on phone. Great stuff and so tiny. Nice job. Can we have DDR back as well please?!
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Just started playing and really enjoying the game. Just one question, is there a map built into the game?
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But I never got to play it due to a distinct lack of instructions and/or help file. BTW, you could possibly get the 8-bit version of Doomdark's Revenge from F-Droid. Just sayin'.
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Great
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And I'll take the word of the fans who say it's fun. But I just can't get into Take 3 steps, then it's dark, over and over. Can see how it might eventually be interesting, but can't bring myself to play it anymore.
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Fantastic. Brings back memories of all those years ago in front of my spectrum playing this.
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Thanks for a great game and some great gaming memories R.I.P. Mike.
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Getting to grips with this game was always offputting by the tedious task of having to load and start emulators. This port of the game is very nicely done (although load/save takes a bit of figuring out) and at last the virtual word of Midnight can be explored in the palm of your hand. The interface is a bit quirky but that could be because the original (ZX Spectrum) version was too. Sometimes it is hard to know what is going on re day/night and a PRINT OUT facility like on the original would be really great to read later. Definitely worth a download! Congrats to the author on the quality of the work.
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one of the best 8 bit game ported to android. if you ever played the original version you will love it, otherwise give it a try. everything in less than 300kb. superb.
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Was a brilliant game till the new update can't save games it comes up with day 16000 or more the enemy sometimes starts right next to you please fix
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Brilliant just like the old days
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Loved this game from way back. Shame the save option's been knackered. Would be great if it could be sorted! What about Doomdark's Revenge! Or Laser Squad! Thanks for this regardless.
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A great classic from yesteryear. I remember watching them play this on some old 80s movie, and they always got stuck on the same part. I always wanted to play 'that cool game', but never knew what it was called... Now I have it in the palm of my hand. Great, thank you! :-)
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Great to see this back, I bought the remake version to support Devs but sometimes I want to play the original. Been a fan of Quirkys releases since GBA homebrew days I tried unsuccessfully to back these up from my S2 with no screen when they were pulled from the market. Now how about Doomdark's Revenge?
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Reminds me of my youth,classic game,still enjoy playing it 30 years later!!!
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the best if you like this retro type. good job devs
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Excellent remake of an excellent game. Thanks.
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A remake of one of the best games of the 80s. Most people under 40 won't appreciate that the whole game was written in 48k. Amazing - top notch programming. In its day it was as good as COD. What about Elite by Firebird - doh! Found it :-/
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Just a good as I remember it on my C64! Thanks.
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Very happy with this game. Chris Wild at Icemark has been promising for a while but you've delivered
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Thank you for one of my top ten games. Hope you plan to more of these classics to andriod
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Great conversion of a great game from the 80's. Using a touchscreen can take a little getting used to compared to the original keyboard commands, but works great on my Tab. many thanks to the developer and hopefully Doomdarks Revenge will be available soon
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Exactly as I remember it, took a while to work out the various controls, might benefit from a simple help file, but that's a minor thing.
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Crashes HTC desire after start screen. Need to pull battery, same as 3d space game.
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1984 all over again and the war of the solstice starts again. Brilliant!
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There are really no instructions, gotstuck really early. Why not just have an instruction PDF, or something?
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A great classic from yesteryear. I remember watching them play this on some old 80s movie, and they always got stuck on the same part. I always wanted to play 'that cool game', but never knew what it was called... Now I have it in the palm of my hand. Great, thank you! :-)
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the best if you like this retro type. good job devs
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Reminds me of my youth,classic game,still enjoy playing it 30 years later!!!
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Excellent remake of an excellent game. Thanks.
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This is one of those iconic games that throw me back to my youth every time i play it. A massive game that was the start of all other sandbox games to this day.