Magic & Mayhem (Windows)

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Description

Magic & Mayhem is a real-time strategy game. You're an aspiring sorcerer on a quest to find your missing uncle, a quest that takes you through over 35 mythical regions, including Celtic, Greek and Medieval realms. During your journey, you'll learn to master new spells and meet many strange creatures, taken from myth and folklore.

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Alternate Titles

• "魔法师传奇" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
• "Mana: Der Weg der schwarzen Macht" -- German title
• "Duel: The Mage Wars" -- Working title
• "Duelo de Hechiceros" -- Spanish title
• "Arcanes" -- French title

Part of the Following Groups

• Magic & Mayhem series
• Visual technique / style: Rendered in clay
• White Label releases

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Critic Reviews

Freak	Mar, 1999	97 out of 100	97
Privat Computer PC	1999	93 out of 100	93
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Oct 01, 1999	85 out of 100	85
Power Unlimited	Jan, 1999	8.3 out of 10	83
Computer Games Magazine	Feb 06, 1999		80
Jeuxvideo.com	May 02, 2010	16 out of 20	80
4Players.de	Nov 06, 2001	78 out of 100	78
Power Play	Dec, 1998	74 out of 100	74
GameStar (Germany)	Dec, 1998	69 out of 100	69
PC Player (Germany)	Dec, 1998	68 out of 100	68

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Trivia

Development

The game designers for Magic and Mayhem had decided to create the creatures and monster characters using the stop-motion animation techniques made popular in the films of Ray Harryhausen, and employed a model maker who was a specialist in this field. Once the model maker had designed the characters, he requested that he be allowed to build them using foam and latex rubber for their skins, which is a professional stop-motion process, but was told that he had to make them with modeling clay as in the TV animation Wallace and Grommit. It worked out in the end, but on one particularly hot day in the sweltering summer of 1997, the plasticine models started to melt!

Programmer Thaddaeus Frogley:

The character models and animations were created using traditional stop motion / 'claymation' and photography.

The end results looked great, but it was a very expensive and long winded way to generate the art resources, and caused lots of problems that were had to fix - especially with animation loops, which we found the from-TV animation lead had trouble with, as TV animation doesn't usually require tight looping walk sequences.

If you look closely you can see the Redcap has a slight "limp" when he walks because of this.

Inspiration

Magic & Mayhem is based on Julian Gollop's Lords of Chaos.

Information also contributed by alan friskell and codemonkey_uk