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Not like Auto Assault at all
harry1
Member Posts: 3
In response to Ingvar, claiming that Darkwind is a ripoff of Auto Assault...
If that´s what you think, I guess you clearly weren´t even born in the 1980s, and can therefore be forgiven for not knowing about the Mad Max films or the Car Wars board game. I can assure you that the theme of cars with guns was certainly *not* invented by Auto Assault.
However, if you had bothered to look any closer than this basic theme, you would realise that Darkwind is primarily a turn based sports/resource management game, and therefore totally unlike AA. Everquest is more similar to AA than Darkwind is!
I guess this final point is less important, but since Darkwind and AA were being developed at the same time, it´s not possible that one is a copy of the other.
If that´s what you think, I guess you clearly weren´t even born in the 1980s, and can therefore be forgiven for not knowing about the Mad Max films or the Car Wars board game. I can assure you that the theme of cars with guns was certainly *not* invented by Auto Assault.
However, if you had bothered to look any closer than this basic theme, you would realise that Darkwind is primarily a turn based sports/resource management game, and therefore totally unlike AA. Everquest is more similar to AA than Darkwind is!
I guess this final point is less important, but since Darkwind and AA were being developed at the same time, it´s not possible that one is a copy of the other.
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Either Auto Assault or Darkwind are based upon the excellent and old boardgame Car Wars from Steve Jackson.
I think both games were developped at the same time. Sam Redfern, lead developper and designer, already made a similar game for the Amiga. So Auto Assault may be a clone of this original game
Auto Assault certainly ended first, due to the size of the team.
Darkwind is an indie developped game.
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