Bill did write the music. He was a genius, I know from personal experience. The basis for this game was a fantasy world we created as early teenagers. He was King William of Ceygolia and I was Queen Arwen of Othel Sirk. I wasn’t as creative as he was, lol. I would love to have this game. I was his tester for his first game, Salmon Run. He was amazingly creative, in music, poetry, writing, and video games. I sure miss him.
That's fantastic, I bought the game back in 1990 and although was somewhat confused at first gave it a good go and ended up loving and finishing it. It is STILL to this day a game that no other game has come close to being as unique as this was and is. The music as well blew my mind. Thank you for sharing all you knew of Bill and thank you for your efforts 👍👍👍
I am so happy to find this on here, thank you so much, I remember playing this game so much, I loved the alien culture and the way it was explained in the game, I remember playing the card game so that it always showed the numbers - I had reached the pinnacle of ESP, fantastic for me. I finished the game eventually and was not disappointed, there were many weird games like this including Terrorpods also not forgetting many RPGs like Captain Blood etc which I truly loved, thank you for the reminders.
I remember when I went to a former flea market in Malmi, Helsinki, with my mom and dad, I found this Amiga game for only 20mk - it was CiB, including a manual and a c-tape.The game was weird but playable. The soundtrack is awesome, anyway =). R.I.P., Bill Williams.
Fabulous. I was thinking of this game without having a clue of the title. So I googled "wierd amiga games." First video hit was this! I got the music on a tape with the game back then. It was wierd but quite interesting. In the end I think I appreciated the music more than the game. ;-)
I barely scratched the surface of this game but I do remember being so fascinated with that spiderweb minigame that I recreated it in Mac Basic, way way back in the day.
Weird amiga games were all the rage back then. Especially in Europe, the programmers went wild with experimentation. I remember sometimes the challenge was understanding the mechanics and win situations.
Such a unique game. I bought it. The box included a cassette tape with the full soundtrack. I listened to it so many times, as I always liked ambient / electronic. Did anyone per chance convert the tape and uploaded it?
I /think/ there's a copy on www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Knights_of_the_Crystallion (had the game & I'm pretty sure this is the tape that came with it, but don't have it anymore so can't swear on it)
So it looks like this game's combat with the plasma balls uses missile command logic; it's not the balls that do so much bu the explosions, so you have to click on their destination carefully.
Bill did write the music. He was a genius, I know from personal experience. The basis for this game was a fantasy world we created as early teenagers. He was King William of Ceygolia and I was Queen Arwen of Othel Sirk. I wasn’t as creative as he was, lol. I would love to have this game. I was his tester for his first game, Salmon Run. He was amazingly creative, in music, poetry, writing, and video games. I sure miss him.
That's fantastic, I bought the game back in 1990 and although was somewhat confused at first gave it a good go and ended up loving and finishing it.
It is STILL to this day a game that no other game has come close to being as unique as this was and is. The music as well blew my mind.
Thank you for sharing all you knew of Bill and thank you for your efforts 👍👍👍
I am so happy to find this on here, thank you so much, I remember playing this game so much, I loved the alien culture and the way it was explained in the game, I remember playing the card game so that it always showed the numbers - I had reached the pinnacle of ESP, fantastic for me. I finished the game eventually and was not disappointed, there were many weird games like this including Terrorpods also not forgetting many RPGs like Captain Blood etc which I truly loved, thank you for the reminders.
I remember when I went to a former flea market in Malmi, Helsinki, with my mom and dad, I found this Amiga game for only 20mk - it was CiB, including a manual and a c-tape.The game was weird but playable. The soundtrack is awesome, anyway =).
R.I.P., Bill Williams.
Fabulous. I was thinking of this game without having a clue of the title. So I googled "wierd amiga games." First video hit was this!
I got the music on a tape with the game back then. It was wierd but quite interesting.
In the end I think I appreciated the music more than the game. ;-)
One rare game which uses the HAM mode for up to 4096 in game colors at a descent speed and a minimum of artefacts. Impressive.
It's truly something else.
Pioneer Plague also uses HAM mode
My brother and I referred to this game as : Shanta
Man this game’s sounds and music is creeping me out. Really weird find. Thanks for the video! I have to see more from the guy who made that game…
I barely scratched the surface of this game but I do remember being so fascinated with that spiderweb minigame that I recreated it in Mac Basic, way way back in the day.
So, I see the AMIGA was capable of hardware subroutine transparencies after all like the SNES right there @12:24
Weird amiga games were all the rage back then. Especially in Europe, the programmers went wild with experimentation. I remember sometimes the challenge was understanding the mechanics and win situations.
When the world was experimental and not run by corporate greed.
Such a unique game. I bought it. The box included a cassette tape with the full soundtrack. I listened to it so many times, as I always liked ambient / electronic. Did anyone per chance convert the tape and uploaded it?
I /think/ there's a copy on www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Knights_of_the_Crystallion
(had the game & I'm pretty sure this is the tape that came with it, but don't have it anymore so can't swear on it)
definitely a weird game
The music alone would have sent me into a seizure
I really need to do a long-play of this to show you novices how it's done ;)
Good idea!
Did you do it ?
+deceiver Not Yet, must get around to it.
@@towerbridge04 Not yet, been busy with the release and build up to FS2020 - but it's on my 'to do' list! ;)
It's a Bill Williams game.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Williams_(game_designer)
Yup. Clever guy that, R.I.P.
Please tell me the game never came with documentation. Would certainly complete the experience. Funny stuff
There's a manual here: hol.abime.net/2597/manual
Wow i want this game ^^
So it looks like this game's combat with the plasma balls uses missile command logic; it's not the balls that do so much bu the explosions, so you have to click on their destination carefully.
Thanks for the info. Someday I'll complete this thing and make a video of it.