Magic and Mayhem

Magic and Mayhem is a real time strategy game, and was my second game project as a professional programmer.

I worked on it as part of the Mythos Games team between 1997 and 1999.

Magic and Mayhem was implemented in C++ and Assembler for PCs with Windows95. Magic and Mayhem had a single player campaign mode, and a head-to-head multiplayer LAN mode.

The main areas of the game I remember being responsible for were:

• The particle system & lightning GFX.
• The 2D UIs for the Portmanteau, Campaign Map and The Grimoire.
• Spell-evaluator functions used by the AI system.
• The save game system, &
• Image processing tool for converting claymation models photographed against a green-screen to anti-aliased sprites.

We had an office LAN, and an ISDN connection to the internet (as it was back then). We used Microsoft Source Safe for version control.

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