ArtPazz

Development

Story of the development were given by the author on Lemon Amiga website:

In 1995, I made my third little game for Amiga (while, instead, I should have studied for the high school final exam). It didn't look good (although my eyes couldn't see that back then) and it had a very annoying feature that was totally redundant, but the game was fun enough and I actually enjoyed it with some friends in a couple of occasions. The game was written with AMOS Professional. Eleven years later (2006), I worked on a project for the local department of the Ministry of Heritage. I had a techical role and I was surrounded by art experts. The project was called "ArtPast". It was so badly planned, the resources were so scarce, the salaries were so low and the demands on my colleagues were so huge that we soon ended up calling the project "ArtPazz" ("pazzo" means "mad", "crazy" in Italian), as those people were being driven mad and the overall atmosphere was totally crazy. Now, fifteen additional years later (2021), during a break from a non-computer-related project, I found the perfect time for a small project like this. I rewrote the game from the scratch using ALS, a graphics library for AMOS Professional I released in October 2020 (rewriting the game using CSS, the ALS predecessor, it's something I had been wanting to do for ages), keeping it as simple as I could. I chose the name "ArtPazz" not only to remember the ArtPast project (and have a laugh with some of those old friends), but also because it's a game that might drive crazy: "Pazz" (in Italian) sounds similar to "puzz" from "puzzle"; the "Art" bit comes from the fact that I threw some (famous) paintings in the mix.