The Debut Page

Introduction

Occasionally somebody will get in touch and ask about the Debut project.  This page is designed to answer all your questions.  Right now it does not.  It's my hope, that in time, this page will pull together what information there is on the project.  Perhaps with floppy disk images for anybody interested in running it under emulation.

What's Debut?

Debut is (or maybe was, I never can remember) a videogame for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga.  It provides three major experiences - A complex planet simulator, a traditional side-scroller experience (rare on the Atari in those days), and an interesting audio diversion known as Vibes (a kind of Trip-a-Tron for the ears).

History

The history of Debut is complicated, but suffice to say Debut was long hard slog for its creators - Mark Davidson and Brian Leake.  Its original conceptual representation was formally put to paper in spring 1988.  Many ideas for what it might be significantly predate this.  It was published in time for Christmas 1990, and for a brief spell was in the top-10 games sold in London high-streets over that period.  Unfortunately for its creators, the publisher never did find the time to perform that fiddling paperwork concerning royalties.  Such is life, and you learn from it.

Audio

Andy Severn originally composed the audio for Debut, kinda sorta doing it in his spare time.  He now has a Sci-Fi web page - www.sci-fi-cafe.com

There was originally to be a fully fledged concept album to go along with the game.  Here's a taste of the first (and only) track - Debut - Prologue (warning - it's nearly 18 meg).