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3D Monster Maze is a 1981 survival horror game designed by Malcolm Evans and published by J. K. Greye Software for the ZX81. [1] Rendered using low-resolution character block "graphics", it was one of the first 3D games for a home computer, [2] and one of the first games incorporating typical elements of the genre that would later be termed survival horror.
Malcolm Evans (born 10 April 1944) is a British former computer game programmer and electronics technician, best known for his games 3D Monster Maze for the Sinclair ZX81 and Trashman for the ZX Spectrum, released in 1982 and 1984 respectively. He and his twin brother, Rod, were born in Romford, but his family soon moved to Portsmouth.
They produced computer games for the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum home computers. They struck gold with the revolutionary 3D Monster Maze, the first 3D game for a home computer, which John Greye suggested they produce after seeing a basic 3D Maze that Evans had programmed in Z80 Assembler.
New Generation Software was an early British video games developer producing games for the Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum computers. It was conceived in the spring of 1982 shortly after the lead developer, Malcolm Evans created 3D Monster Maze (initially released by J. K. Greye Software, and later republished by New Generation Software)—one of the first 3D games for a home computer.
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Some first-person maze games follow the design of Pac-Man, but from the point of view of being in the maze. First-person maze games are differentiated from more diversified first-person party-based RPGs , dungeon crawlers , first-person shooters , and walking sims by their emphasis on navigation of largely abstracted maze environments.
Malcolm Evans' 3D Monster Maze, released for the Sinclair ZX81 in 1982, [25] is a first-person game without a weapon; the player cannot fight the enemy, a Tyrannosaurus rex, so they must escape by finding the exit before the monster finds them. The game states its distance and awareness of the player, further raising tension.