Captain Yates: The Freedom Quest!

Captain Yates: The Freedom Quest! Our first game we decided to write was called Captain Yates: The Freedom Quest!. It was going to be a cross between Lode Runner 2 and Commander Keen. The goal was for a game that was easy to play with classic elements from older games.…

Editor early days

The Mad Monks' Revenge Definitive Edition has come a long way since we started the project back in 2014. What did the game look like in the beginning? Welcome to Lode Runner! Not very impressive, but you've got to start somewhere! The above shot was taken in…

Goodbye, 2017

We'd like to give a special thanks to the follwing for another year of work on Mad Monks' Revenge. * Howie * Jared * Ali * Leandro * Rick * Jeffrey * Timothy * MacLR * Azure * Helen * Adrián * Adam * Trevor * George * Travis * Conrad * Luis * Andrew * Sam * William * Matt * Christian * Miguel * Ethan And a thank you…

What is the size of MMR?

Have you wondered how much disk space Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge Definitive Edition takes up? Wonder no more! NAS on the left, local storage on the right The Lode Runner folder on my NAS (left) contains; * CD image of Mad Monks' Revenge and The Legend…

Lode Runner 2

We've received quite a few questions over the last several months as more and more people find this project. One of the more popular ones is if we are going to update Lode Runner 2 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lode_Runner_2] when we're finally…

Changing the game options

I've given the game options a massive overhaul. In case you don't/can't remember what it looks like off by heart, here it is below; There are a few things that I find wrong with this dialog, most from just a quick glance, and…

The Beginning

One of the things I wanted with my MMR was to be ability to download the original copy from Todd Daggert's [http://www.daggert.net/Folio/Programming/Presage/LodeRunner/Loderunner1.htm] site, unzip it anywhere you'd like, drop in my new EXE and perhaps another data…

The Legend of Mad Monks' Revenge Returns

Welcome to my Lode Runner Online: Mad Monks Rewrite development blog! You can all about why I'm doing this on the project about page [https://www.quarkrobot.com/about-this-project]. I'm actually well into development - I did mean to start this blog earlier but I'…