The manual refers to them as the “Miracle Designs Team”. Both he and the people who created the in-game artwork are not listed in the game’s credits at the end of the game.

The game music was composed in 1994 by Fabrice Gillet in Protracker on an Amiga. Thanks to Tom Barker for the contribution!Īction Adventure Leaked Team 17 Read moreĪtari Karts is a Mario Kart-style racing game for Atari Jaguar published by Atari Games and developed by Miracle Designs Ltd. One possibility is that Team 17’s publishing partner, Ocean, elected to drop the game’s funding in light of Speris’ apparently lacklustre sales rather than risk making another loss.ĭespite the game’s cancellation, its soundtrack was released by Team17 composer, Bjørn Lynne, in 1996, and a playable demo of Witchwood was leaked online some years ago: you can download it from Kult Game. The reason for the project’s termination is as of yet unknown.

As noted by Hallfiry of the Betaarchive Forum, while working on Witchwood, Team 17 was also developing Speris Legacy another action adventure similar to the Legend of Zelda games that was released on Amiga in 1996.

The game would have been published by Ocean for Amiga and PC, but in 1995 moved to PC, Playstation, Saturn, and Jaguar. In 2022, the game was included as part of the Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration compilation.Witchwood is a cancelled action adventure game that was in development from 1994 to 1996 by Team 17, the studio best known for the Worms series. Miracle Designs began development on a sequel after release but never moved forward beyond the planning phase, however, Merlin Racing (2000) for Nuon is considered a spiritual successor to the game. Impressed with the demo, Atari decided to make a game with a 'cutesy' atmosphere by combining F-Zero and Super Mario Kart, suggesting the usage of Bentley Bear and other Atari characters that did not make it into the final release.Ītari Karts garnered mixed reception from critics, all of which accused it for being a Mario Kart knock-off. Atari Karts started production when Belgian programmers Filip Hautekeete and Peter Vermeulen received a development kit for the Jaguar from Atari, creating a demo featuring an emulated interpretation of the Mode 7 graphics mode seen in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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