Pete Cooke
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Pete Cooke (born 1956) is a British computer games programmer, best known for his work published in the 1980s for the ZX Spectrum.
Career
His software often used a point and click GUI.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". As most Spectrum users did not own a mouse the pointer was manipulated by keyboard or joystick.
Cooke's game Tau Ceti featured a form of solid 3D graphics and was set on a planet with day and night cycles with dynamically drawn shadows. Micronaut One, released in 1987, was set inside futuristic biocomputers with the player controlling a microscopic craft attempting to clear the tunnels of an insect-like life form called Scrim. This game used fast-moving 3D graphics and featured an enemy that went through a realistic, though sped up, lifecycle, beginning each level as eggs and progressing to larvae and eventually adult Scrim which would then lay more eggs.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
As well as these games, Cooke programmed the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions of Stunt Car Racer and also released a game for the 16-bit Amiga and Atari ST in 1990 called Tower of Babel.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
He worked at Leicester College as an IT lecturer and he teaches students how to create computer games using Microsoft XNA.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He has created and released games for Apple Devices (iOS), including Zenfit and Everything Must Go.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Games
- Invincible Island (1983)[1]
- The Inferno (1984)
- Urban Upstart (1984)
- UDG Generator (1984)
- Maze Chase (1984)
- Upper Gumtree (1985)
- Ski Star 2000 (1985)
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- Tau Ceti (1985)
- Room 10 (1986)
- Academy (1986)
- Micronaut One (1987)
- Brainstorm (1987)
- Earthlight (1988)
- Zolyx (1988)
- A Whole New Ball Game (1989)
- Stunt Car Racer – ZX Spectrum conversion of Geoff Crammond's game (1989)
- Granny's Garden (1989)
- Tower Of Babel (1990)
- Grand Prix (1992)
- Grand Prix 2 (1996)
- Grand Prix 3 (2000)
- Zenfit (iOS) (2012)
- Everything Must Go (iOS) (2013) [2]
References
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- ↑ Invincible Island on World of Spectrum
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External links
- Feature on Pete Cooke from a 1987 issue of Crash magazine.
- Pete Cooke by Retro Gamer Team, 15 July 2014.
- Zenfit on Apple App StoreScript error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Cbignore Zenfit on Apple App Store.
- Everything Must Go on Apple App Store Everything Must Go on Apple App Store.