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Cool, I have a story in my head this aligns to perfectly.

Looks like the type of games I used to love - Sword of Fargoal, etc. Looking forward to playing.  Is there an item at the end that you're to grab and get out with?

Excellent I was looking for a simple desert survival simulator.  Set in West Texas, but close enough!

Fascinating, I own a physical copy of this old gem and would not have expected this.  The map is a great touch - I don't remember that in the original.

Who knows why the "global warming" happened, could be the result of a crazy billionaire Gil Bates seeding the atmosphere with particles to reflect the sun gone wrong ...  Or solar flares burning away the atmosphere, etc.

Fantastic, right up my alley.  Was looking for post-apocalyptic desert survival and here it is.  Just ordered the Collector's Edition boxed with ... cartridge~!  Best part about it is the aesthetic - it doesn't do that "modern retro" look - feels like a late-era released C64 title.

Thank you for the quick reply!  Appreciate that detail and will certainly check the game and books out.  Book .... #10!  Wow and great news to hear a "2" will be coming.  Since you are the author of the game(s), I think it would be fair to say technically the added side-quests would then be "canon", too?    Well, unless the main character died in-game during a side-quest, that wouldn't work ...  haha.

I'm very glad to have found this. What I like most is how you are taking your own fiction into the game.  I once wrote that I thought that Below the Root (Zilpha Keatley Snyder) for the C64 and a few other computers at the time was a rare (the only?) example of expanding on canon world fiction for previously published novels within a game - approved and directed by the author - and has been rarely replicated since.  Of course you are breaking another barrier which is actually being the one to program the game! So I must ask -- without having read your books and only having just found the game, does this game expand upon your canon world lore in any way - or is it more of a "based on the books" approach?   Thank you, - Robinson Mason 

Beautiful game.  I managed to play through it without realizing I had a flashlight - so some areas were inexplicably dark for me of course. If I had one bit of constructive criticism it is that the main character and her mother's images are not up to par with the rest of the ultra-realistic scenery, as in they look like very old Poser faces.  I think Daz3D today could be used for free to create more realistic renders of faces.  

A very imaginative and immersive environment. I want to play more but don't have patience for jumping puzzles.- That said, the jumping is quite forgiving once you get used to it, I just am not very good at it I guess.

Excellent work, Tom! Glad to see more C64 games being created.