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Amys who's who of who is out there! While most of us have sometimes seen the sunrise whilst stuck into a game, spare a thought for the games authors who don't seem to need sleep at all! One such dedicated bod is Jonathan Cauldwell, a 23 year old analyst programmer from Nottingham. Regular readers of all three late Speccy mags will be very familiar with his work via the covertapes.
His programs ooze charm, with delicious cartoon graphics and delicate touches of humour. Simple games that are devilishly addictive - a very hard balance to achieve unless you're a natural. Using a grey 128+2, Art Studio 2, LERM Z80 toolkit and a couple of his own utilities, our Johno has written over a dozen games, all for the Speccy, and with more in the pipe(work). All games have been put out under his own Grafix Wizards label.
"I'm currently working on a follow up to Haunted House called GLOOP. It's a slightly different style of platform game to its predecessor so I wouldn't call it a sequel as such. Unfortunately, I have to organize my programming time around my job/my laziness/experiencing the nightlife of Nottm and Derby so expect to see the finished game sometime around May/June!"
The completists amongst you can get ALL his work for under £8 by writing to the modest man himself.
Vigilante Patrol (89), Egghead (89), Egghead 2 (90), Shove Off (90), Pipework (91), Haunted House (91), Super Fruit Machine (91), Megablast (92), Grand Prix (92), Squamble (93), Crazy Golf (93), Demolition (94).
5 Helmsley Drive Eastwood Nottingham NG16 3RS
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