Black Crypt for the PC

To:  Raven Software

Over 4 years ago, late 1998, Raven Software programmer Rick Johnson released a 2-level demo of the PC port of the Amiga classic Black Crypt (released by Raven Software in 1992). At that time, statements were made that the whole game with its 30+ dungeon levels will be ported over to the PC and released to the fans as a Xmas present for 1998. Now, approaching Xmas 2002, nothing has changed... as far as our several inquiries at Raven Software over the course of the last 2 years showed, nothing has been done on this project any more.

Interestingly, on July 23, 2002, at a public chat celebrating the newly released Soldier of Fortune II, Rick Johnson made following statement:

"I've kinda started to think about re-porting black crypt over to a GL environment - who knows, maybe I'll finish this one and build in a level editor as well."

This encouraged many Raven fans, who started to hope again... until November 2002, when following official statement was released by Raven Software to the fan community:

"[Black Crypt] was a side project one of our programmers worked on during a vacation. Unfortunately, he hasn't had any free time to work on it for almost three years. Given the fact that he's the lead programmer of Quake IV, I doubt he'll have any free time anytime soon, either."

After 4 years of to and fro, now the community stands up and asks for what has been promised. We sign this petition in the expectation that Raven Software will release Black Crypt in its entirety as a PC port, complete with all levels, at latest by Xmas 2003 (if sooner, even better), as a free download - as was promised 4 years ago.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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