Ray Dunakin

Ray R. Dunakin III is the author of a series of popular Shareware adventure games published for the Macintosh in the 90's. The majority of the games take place in a fictional realm called Ray's Maze and incorporate expansive worlds, colorful characters, imaginative plots, and a large dose of satire and humor. The games revolve around having the player explore the many different worlds in Ray's Maze, solve puzzles, collect treasure, and avoid harm. The games were very popular for their open-ended and non-linear gameplay, beautiful black & white graphics, and creative storylines.

Nearly all of Dunakin's games were built with the World Builder adventure creation system. After finishing A Mess O' Trouble, Ray began preliminary work on another "Maze" game called A Royal Mess, but then switched over to Twisted. He then made a colorized version of Twisted was in order to appraise Autumn Software's Adventure Creator software. Ray had planned an Adventure Creator-based completely 3D rendered color game called MorphWorld in 2001, although it was subsequently put on hold indefinitely. [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.games.adventure/msg/87c4863bddb1dccd?]

Dunakin's games do not run natively under versions of Mac OS X newer than 10.4 (or on 80x86-based machines), however they can still be played on modern Macintoshes by using a Macintosh emulator such as [http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/ mini-vMac] .

List of games

Ray Dunakin's most famous games include:

* Ray's Maze
* Another Fine Mess
* A Mess O' Trouble
* Twisted
** Twisted Deluxe "(Color Version)"

Other Hobbies

Besides his adventure games, Dunakin is also well known for his artwork and involvement in model and high powered rocketry. His articles on rocket camera payloads have been featured in [http://www.extremerocketry.com Extreme Rocketry] magazine ( [http://www.extremerocketry.com/downloads/issue13_nov2001.pdf #13, Nov 2001] ).

References

http://www.semitech.com/marc/ray.html [http://www.semitech.com/marc/ray.html]

http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/ [http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/]

http://www.aeroconsystems.com/literature/er_books.htm [http://www.aeroconsystems.com/literature/er_books.htm]

http://www.extremerocketry.com/downloads/issue13_nov2001.pdf [http://www.extremerocketry.com/downloads/issue13_nov2001.pdf]

http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/wbuilder.htm [http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/wbuilder.htm]

http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumList?u=3009006&f=0