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Geek Culture / Zeb (Lee Bamber & Nolan Worthington)

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C0wbox
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Posted: 6th Mar 2009 20:52 Edited at: 6th Mar 2009 21:10
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Zeb, by Lee Bamber and Nolan Worthington (1996)

Over the past 2 days or so, I've been tossing and turning over the idea of showing this game to The Game Creator's community, because I bet none of you know about it. But this game was made by Lee Bamber, so you all should. xD

Basically Zeb is a game made for the absolutely ancient game-creation tool called The Games Factory (by Europress) Zeb is one of 3 example games that come with The Games Factory, and in my opinion is by far the coolest.

Aside from the games crashing occasionally for no apparent reason, The Games Factory is capable of making games that can run on any operating system from Windows 3.11 to Windows Vista (tried and tested by me) (I'm not sure about Windows 7)

So even if you're browsing this forum on an ancient computer (for some reason) you can still play Zeb.

I'm not really trying to advertise this game as the greatest thing in the universe, but I will upload it here just to show one of Lee's old pieces of work.

Here is the installer:


Here are some super cool screenshots of this amazing game

The first act


The second act


Zeb dieing


The first level construction


How Zeb's code looks ('t looks like a fancy version of Excel to me )

But yeh, Zeb was one of my main links to The Game Creators, because I knew it was made by this "guy" called Lee Bamber, but that was like 9 years ago... so when I got Dark BASIC Professional and realised he'd made that too, I was like:
"=0!!!!!! it must be just as pro!"
My expectations were met.

I since found out that Lee does lots of things in these sorts of programs, meaning games like Zeb were forgotten (This is my attempt at re-vitalizing it)

(And for anyone who's going to moan at me because this is Lee's work:
Games are distributed for free when they've been made with The Games Factory
There is no copyright on it
I'm sure Lee really doesn't mind anyway (because it just makes him look better)
It is an example game, so I could just change the starting credits and call it my own)

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Tom J
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Posted: 6th Mar 2009 21:26
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I remember that game, that was a lot fun in between making stuff I knew it was by Lee Bamber but didn't think about bringing that up.
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C0wbox
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Posted: 6th Mar 2009 21:31
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@ Tom J
Quote: "I remember that game"

=0! You mean to say people do know of Zeb?
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Tom J
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Posted: 6th Mar 2009 21:44
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lol, well I used to use The Games Factory before I got into Dark Basic; when I got into DB it was weird seeing that Lee Bamber had worked on that too, as if he was following me around
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Posted: 6th Mar 2009 23:11
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Oh yes, I remember that, I remember seeing Lee Bamber in the credits, good game.

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Posted: 7th Mar 2009 01:15
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thats news to me. Although I guess it makes sense that he was doing work BEFORE db...


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Bozzy
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Posted: 7th Mar 2009 01:41
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I played that game when I was like 6. My cousin is called Zeb, so it reminded me of him. I loved it.

I then grew up, and beating aforementioned Zeb at Fifa is my satisfication now.

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Posted: 7th Mar 2009 06:28 Edited at: 7th Mar 2009 06:32
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I think I've heard of Zeb...never played it though. I'll have to give it a shot tomorrow.

And Lee is a master programmer!



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Posted: 7th Mar 2009 11:23
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Quote: "Lee is a master programmer!"

Yeh, Lee pwns all.

Quote: "My cousin is called Zeb"

He must have really cool parents, heh.
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Van B
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That's really cool! - kinda reminds me of Metal Slug, it's certainly as good as any platformer I've played recently.

I love how the legs adhere to the slopes especially, you just don't see that level of detail very often these days.


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Quote: "@ I love how the legs adhere to the slopes"

Yeh, I think only a few games (2D or 3D) seem to do that now, everything else just works on the fact that stairs aren't all that common.
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Anyone know of anything else Lee did before?

I'm not a dictator to those that do stuff for me by will. Only those who don't.
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Posted: 8th Mar 2009 01:54 Edited at: 8th Mar 2009 01:54
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Quote: "Anyone know of anything else Lee did before?"


You'd be surprised.

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I remember playing this. In the UK there was a magazine called Game Maker, I think there was only 1 stand-alone issue, afterwards it was printed as a few pages in another magazine. Still, it was pretty groovy to find a proper, full sized magazine dedicated to game making, that was were I found out about Dark BASIC. Anyway, I digress. There was a disc on the front of Game Maker (I still have it to this day) and one of the programs was a copy of The Games Factory Pro, including this very game. The magazine included a tutorial for making a cool, little snowboarding game in GFP.


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Quote: "I remember playing this. In the UK there was a magazine called Game Maker"


I remember seeing that too ages ago and wanted to buy it, but had no money; never saw it in another shop - saw it at the Liverpool st. WHS. There was a guide to jamagic in it, which was a java-like game engine by the same company as the Games Factory.
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Posted: 8th Mar 2009 17:20 Edited at: 8th Mar 2009 17:21
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My god I remember this game, it is cool. I got into DB after klik'n'play and TGF. Its feels strange to see Zeb again after all this time. Love it!

EDIT: I also remember really wanting Jamagic at the time it was released, since I was a fan of the previous makers, but never got too much into Java.


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