'The Wrath of Anubis' released

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The BDB Project is pleased to announce the release of The Wrath of Anubis. This game is an adaptation of the Italian adventure Ken Richards: L’Ira di Anubi by Bonaventura Di Bello. It was originally published on the cover tape of Viking, no. 9, October 1987 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.

On a visit to the remote village of El Rajid, you are fascinated by the legends of the village. The one that intrigued you the most was the story of a young man named Sinuhe who helped in the construction of a fabulous pyramid for a cruel pharaoh. Sinuhe hated the pharaoh and decided to kill him, but he was caught by the palace guards and thrown to the crocodiles. This act enraged Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of mummification and the afterlife.

Anubis raised the spirit of Sinuhe and sent him to haunt the pharaoh and his descendants for generations to come. It is said that the spirit still haunts all those who live in the valley around El Rajid, descendants of the pharaoh or not.

Every year, on the Festival of the Sun, the villagers leave their homes to search the remains of the ancient pharaoh’s palace, hoping to find the medallion that Sinuhe was wearing when he was killed. According to the legend, if the medallion is melted down and transformed into the figure of Anubis, then the wrath of Anubis will be appeased and Sinuhe will have a peaceful afterlife.

In this game, it is the morning of the Festival of the Sun and the villagers have left to search for the medallion of Sinuhe, leaving you alone to do your own exploring. Can you survive the desert heat and find the lost medallion to appease The Wrath of Anubis?

In case it’s not obvious from the intro, this game has an archaeology theme with some neat puzzles. It does start off near a desert maze with a thirst daemon, but don’t be put off by that. The maze is fairly easy to map in the conventional manner and you can get some clues to the location of water if you ask a character the right questions. Of the three games we are releasing today, I think our testers enjoyed this one the most.

The game can be played online, downloaded as a z5 file to play in your favourite Z-code interpreter or downloaded as a disk image to play in selected retro computers.

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I’m going to have to make a specific folder for “Italian Oldschool”

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Rovarsson: of course. and add that I lived the days of said old school, so here is my folder, following the general narrative of these days of yore:

~/if/bin/zcode$ tree -d BDBprj/
BDBprj/
├── v0
│   ├── desperado
│   ├── tinstar
│   └── wildwest
└── v1
    ├── anubis
    ├── caribbean
    └── unknown

Best regards from Italy (of course…)
Dott. Piergiorgio.

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