Ms. Gorf, lost forever?

[Zaxxon]

Is there any effort being made to recover this game, has it just been dismissed as a lost game or does no one else care? I read that it still resided on some old 8" floppy disks for the dev system. I'm sure someone out there in internet-land could be able to figure out how to get it up and running and recover it.

[Raccoon Lad]

Do you have any more info on this game?
It probably needs a little more publicity before anyone gets off their ass and tries to achive it.

[Zaxxon]

It is on the original programmers home page, Jamie Fenton. I don't have the url. Search on google and you'll find it.

[Arcade Antics]

Jamie brought the only footage of the game to CGE 2K1. She had it as a holdover from her programming work on the game, sort of a video-diary. It was great to see what she had worked up for Ms. Gorf, but she pretty much said to not expect to see it finished any time soon.

[digitalpress]

Ms. Fenton didn't make it to CGE2k2 but when I spoke with her at CGE2k1 all she had positively located was the video of the game, not the source code. Some discussion about re-creating the game was bandied about but I don't think she really took me seriously. We're counting on her attending this year, and you can be sure that I'll bring it up again! I really want to see that game get finished or at least released in the state it was in (which looked pretty playable to me).

[Keir]

I just discovered that "Gorf" is "frog" backwards. Doh!

[Tempest]

I just discovered that "Gorf" is "frog" backwards. Doh

Actually that's a coincidence. GORF actually stands for Galactic Orbiting Robot Force.

Tempest

[Keir]

Do you know for a fact that it's a coincidence? To me it sounds like she invented the word Gorf first, and then came up with "Galactic Orbiting Robot Force" to force an acronym out of it. But I'm just guessing.

[Cafeman]

"Gorf" is also similar to "Gort". Wasn't he the robot in The Day the Earth Stood Still?

[Zaxxon]

I just discovered that "Gorf" is "frog" backwards. Doh

Actually that's a coincidence. GORF actually stands for Galactic Orbiting Robot Force.

Tempest

I could swear I saw an upside-down frog in the game. I remember this because I was playing it on CV ages ago and when I saw that frog looking thing it clicked, Gorf backwards.

[Tempest]

I guess Jamie would be the only one who would know for sure. But I swear I read somewhere that the frog thing was a coincidence. I'd buy the GORT explaination before the frog thing.

Tempest

[chocobokick]

Gorf reminds me of Dorf

[slapdash]

I guess Jamie would be the only one who would know for sure. But I swear I read somewhere that the frog thing was a coincidence. I'd buy the GORT explaination before the frog thing.

Jay's nickname was "Frog". No Gort required. I think I heard that from Brett Bilbrey (another Astrocoder) originally...

[Savedman]

I really want to see that game get finished or at least released in the state it was in (which looked pretty playable to me).

Would that have been the state of Nevada???

[gamergary]

He meant how much work was finished on the game .