DarkSpyre

DarkSpyre is a 1990 video game produced by Event Horizon Software (later known as DreamForge Intertainment) for MS-DOS. It was released the following year for the Amiga. Darkspyre is a dungeon crawl style role-playing game. It uses top-down graphics and randomly generated dungeons, similar to a roguelike.

DarkSpyre
Developer	Event Horizon
Publisher	Event Horizon
Producer	James H. Namestka
Designer	Christopher L. Straka
Programmer	Thomas J. Holmes
Artists	Jane Yeager Frank Urbaniak
Composer	Ed Puskar
Platforms	MS-DOS, Amiga
Release	1990: MS-DOS 1991: Amiga
Genre	Role-playing
Mode	Single-player

in 1992, The Summoning was released as a sequel. It did not rely on DarkSpyre's random dungeon mechanic, instead using pre-designed levels.

Plot

The gods of War, Magic, and Intellect created the Darkspyre to find a champion to overcome the final challenge of mankind. The player must locate the five runes of power within Darkspyre to master the tests and prevent the destruction of the world.^[1]

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1991 in Dragon #172 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 3½ out of 5 stars.^[1] The game was reviewed in Computer Gaming World in 1991, with the reviewer stating that "DarkSpyre is a fine game, well suited to gamers who enjoy true challenges."^[2]

Reviews

• ASM - Mar, 1991
• Amiga Joker (Feb, 1992)^[3]