Tau Ceti... The game

[Pyrotiger]

I remember: Centralis.

 

[Archduke]

I remember the game!
It was amazing such 3D with light/shadow on the ZX Spectrum!

I was too young a the time to really know what I was doing though. I vaguely recall going to the reactors and you had various filled shapes that you had to match congruently into a circle oor something...

I'd always get zapped by the big ball things.

 

[zarking]

I think it was one of the first solid 3d games, and the reactor puzzle was pretty tricky.

There was so much imagination in games then considering the technology, elite, mercenary, koronis rift, paradroid, good times

 

[Siranui]

Puzzles with large rewards can become repeatable, exploitable cash-cows once a solution is 'known'. I'd personally like any individual player mini-puzzles to be entirely unique so that players cannot just look up solutions. I'm also leery of 'big rewards'.
What's wrong with small rewards? Good gameplay doesn't need to wave a golden carrot.

But yeah.. nice idea. repped for being constructive.

 

[Pyrotiger]

From what I heard, the puzzle was unsolvable due to a programming/design error.

Game is freely available and easy to play on an Amstrad emulator.

 

[Basil Sandhurst]

I enjoy it from my zx....
Cheers for remember me!
Best regards
Basil Sandhurst

 

[dynamicbob]

Elite dangerous multi crew, will start to look a bit like pulsar the lost colony with 2.3

 

[Sapyx]

Yea, verily, I remember Tau Ceti. Mainly because, whenever I played Civilization, I always named my capital city "Centralis".

The 3-d effect was simplistic, yet surprisingly effective.

 

[zarking]

Yeah unique puzzle each time, or at least a large enough variety it would be difficult to know which one it was.

Was the original unsolvable? That would explain why I never finished it lol. I used to just fly across the planet for hours trying to see how far I could get.