Trivia
Chris Delaporte, one of the lead CG artists on "Heart of Darkness", is better known for being the director of the animated movie "Kaena: The Prophecy", released in 2003. The original concept of this movie started out as a video game project in 1995, while Delaporte was working at Amazing Studio with Éric Chahi. When the studio closed down, Delaporte scrapped his game idea and turned it into a motion picture.
Contributed by
Kaminari 
(1265) on Apr 17, 2008.
Some releases of this game on CD-ROM contained a "Making of Heart of Darkness" video documentary, which had interviews with the development team.
Contributed by
Garcia (5010) on Oct 30, 2006.
Eric Chahi (main creator of Heart of Darkness) worked on the game from September 1992 to June 1998 (5 and 3/4 years).
The friendly aliens Andy runs into in his adventure are called "Amigos", this is spanish for "friends". In fact they all speak in spanish! Tough they do so in loose, unconnected words.
Contributed by
Zovni (9138) on Feb 23, 2003.
The game comes with a small pair of 3D-glasses with which you can check the after-final animation which is black and white until you put those glasses and see the depth and get a feeling of what you see as real 3D picture.
Contributed by
MAT (35327) on Jan 19, 2002.
Heart of Darkness reportedly began development in 1992, (gasp!) The game is based very loosely on the Joseph Conrad novel of the same name.
Contributed by
Zovni (9138) on Jun 25, 2001.
The soundtrack for this game is performed by The London Symphony, and composed by Bruce Broughton. Release date is 1999. The CD also contains a Demo of the game.
Tracklist:
- Main Title
- Andy's Mission
- Big Mistake
- Andy's Friend
- Space Island
- Vicious Servant
- Back to the Lair
- Meteor Destroyed
- The Plot
- Andy's Victory
- End Credits
This soundtrack can be bought at
http://www.synsoniq.com
Contributed by
MAT (35327) on Aug 04, 2000.
A soundtrack album featuring the score composed by accomplished film music composer Bruce Broughton and performed by Sinfonia of London is available on the Intrada label (www.intrada.com).
Though the game is not a sequel, add-on pack, nor spin-off, the game has a striking similarity of story to 1990-1992's Commander Keen series.
Contributed by
Yeah No (25) on Jul 13, 2000.
This game is one of the early users of CD-based copy protection.
Although the installation program insists that you need DirectX 6.0, the manual says HOD will run on NT 4.0 with SP3.
