VirtuaSoft: The brainchild of Danny Gump By jsa005

By jsa005
POSTED: 23 Apr 2012 23:35
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The brainchild of Danny Gump

VirtuaSoft was Danny's dream.
The VirtuaSoft website started on May 24 1998, and the last update was on April 24 2001.
He made games under that name, in the hope that when he graduated from college he would sell games under that name.
I quote from the website:

VirtuaSoft is a "company" name that I, Danny Gump, attach to all my games I make, because I am hoping that after I graduate from college, I will sell games under that name. But for now, I simply make games for fun.

VirtuaSoft made The Mystical Journey.
Believe it or not, the game was made for MS-DOS.
Here are some screenshots I sourced from VirtuaSoft's website:

You can actually download the original MS-DOS game here: http://chainmailsales.com/virtuasoft/mystical/mystical.zip
The original TMJ team for the MS-DOS version was:
-Danny Gump, Producer/Programmer
-John Bruckelmeyer, Artist
-Robbie Gump, Level Designer

VirtuaSoft also made a clone of Super Mario World.

This is the original HullBreach game:

VirtuaSoft also made a Star Trek VS Star Wars game:

So there you have a brief history of VirtuaSoft, the dream of Daniel Gump.
-Josh (jsa005)
P.S. HullBreach is Daniel Gump.

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Arch_Enemy
14 Dec 2014 20:42

HullBreach Studios celebrates its first birthday in days thanks to Daniel Gump!

jsa005
03 May 2012 17:35

Quoth mariojohan:

nice Josh,
now i know how The Mystical Journal look like.
and cool pictures!

That's most likely not how the DSi/3DS version will look, the pictures are of the really old MS-DOS version which never got finished.
HullBreach has said below that the storyline will be different, and he's got a new art team, too.

mariojohan
03 May 2012 15:36

nice Josh,
now i know how The Mystical Journal look like.
and cool pictures!

jsa005
25 Apr 2012 14:01

Quoth HullBreach:

If you check out some of the tech demos on the website, I have remade them, using the SDK (For example, the rippling puddle on WiiOperaSDK.com). It's amazing how much technology has advanced since then. I was developing in QuickBasic and assembly language on a 233MHz Pentium computer for much of that time. Now, many of the same demos and games can be run in a Web browser using Java Script, HTML, and server communication.

I wrote most of the software on that website without help from anyone else (aside from some sketches on graph paper). Because of this and my busy college life, the website went unchanged for a while, until I finally gave up on it when the world moved to Windows.

With the ubiquity of the Internet and very capable Web browsers in the last generation of consoles, the time finally came to remake most of the tech demos into full-fledged projects. The first such game was HullBreach Online, which saw release on the Wii (and a Lite version on the Nintendo DSi). The current project is obviously The Mystical Journey. With a very capable art team this time around, I can concentrate my time on the game engine. Let's finish the project I was never able to get done in college!

With you all the way!

HullBreach
25 Apr 2012 11:21

If you check out some of the tech demos on the website, I have remade them, using the SDK (For example, the rippling puddle on WiiOperaSDK.com). It's amazing how much technology has advanced since then. I was developing in QuickBasic and assembly language on a 233MHz Pentium computer for much of that time. Now, many of the same demos and games can be run in a Web browser using JavaScript, HTML, and server communication.

I wrote most of the software on that website without help from anyone else (aside from some sketches on graph paper). Because of this and my busy college life, the website went unchanged for a while, until I finally gave up on it when the world moved to Windows.

With the ubiquity of the Internet and very capable Web browsers in the last generation of consoles, the time finally came to remake most of the tech demos into full-fledged projects. The first such game was HullBreach Online, which saw release on the Wii (and a Lite version on the Nintendo DSi). The current project is obviously The Mystical Journey. With a very capable art team this time around, I can concentrate my time on the game engine. Let's finish the project I was never able to get done in college!

jsa005
24 Apr 2012 10:07

Quoth MasterSwordz:

Cool! Where did you get this info?

Googled "The Mystical Journey MS-DOS", found the TMJ Dev Team Google Site, and a page with a download link for TMJ MS-DOS.
It was on the website of a brand named "VirtuaSoft", so I looked at that.
It turned out VirtuaSoft was Danny Gump's own software label (You might say games you make were made by "jsaGames" for example, a made-up brand.