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| Descent: First Strike |
Descent Mac |
Descent PSX |
Descent |
Developer: Parallax [Descent website]
Publisher: Interplay [Descent website]
Released: 8 February 1995
Demos:
- Descent Shareware Version 1.0 (PC) - 15 December 1994
- Descent Shareware Version 1.1 (PC) - 6 January 1995
- Descent Shareware Version 1.2 (PC) - 22 February 1995
- Descent Shareware Version 1.4 (PC) - 11 April 1995
- Descent Shareware Version 1.0 (Mac) - 1994
- Descent: Test Flight (Demo on CD)
- Descent: Destination Saturn (OEM)
Version History:
Official (PC)
- Version 1.0
- Version 1.4a
- Version 1.5
Unofficial (PC)
Other Variants:
- Descent Online - online variant at Engage Games Online; featured two additional player ships
- Descent PSX for Sony Playstation - released 12 March 1996
- Descent SA for Sega Saturn - released 1 June 1997
- Ultra Descent N64 for Nintendo 64 - planned for 1997-1998 release, not proceeded with
- Descent by Peter Telep
(novelization) - January 1999
- Descent (the movie) - briefly planned around 1999-2000 timeframe, but not proceeded with
Utilities
- DEVIL (Descent Editor for Vertices, Items and Levels) by Achim Stremplat (first Descent
level editor; unofficial)
- DMB (Descent Mission Builder, official level editor)
- Miner (developer level editor)
- Kali (online multiplayer service / IPX emulator)
- Kahn (online multiplayer service / IPX emulator)
- DETLEF32 (level downloader)
- DSPY32 (game tracker)
- BriefEd (briefing editor)
- DTX (resource editor)
- Hoggle (HOG manager)
Levels
- First user-made level: Dark Series by Lord Vader; Squeezer by unknown - 27 March 1995
(oldest levels listed at Koolbear's)
- Most-played multiplayer level: Minerva by Spaz
- Levels of the World level contest winners:
- The Catacombs by Chris Kotchey
- Alien Stronghold by Bill Sechrist
- In Square Out by Daniel Campau
- The Corkscrew by Mitch Eatough
- Turncoat by Thomas and Joseph Nelson
- Ice's Outpost I by Bill Hamilton
- Training Camp by Arlo Aude
- Team Death! by Virgil Itliong
- Descent City by Ziv Barber
- Gehenna by Greg Siegrist
- Anniversary Edition level contest winners:
- WarZone by Hugues Boisvert
- Magnum Four by Brett Russell
- The Three Domes by Byron Knibb
Community Websites
Notes and Sources
Descent Copyright © Parallax Software, Interplay Entertainment
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