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Geo's Quest 1; your thoughts?

Hi Friends,
It's been a month since the release of Chapter 6 "There be Cows", the last chapter in this trilogy. Thanks to all who have visited my itch site, downloaded, donated, commented and posted on the boards. The reception has been positive.
Surprisingly, I have received several emails, private messages and posts concerning GQ1. The questions have been:

Will you be including the original GQ in the box set?
Will you fix and  then include the original GQ on your itch site for download?

The original GQ was a tutorial/experiment while I was learning Edmund Clay's GRAC in 1998 then finished it with his upgraded GRAC2 in 1999 as a hobby. It was never intended to be published. Just learning how to use GRAC & AMOS. When my wife died in late 2000 (auto accident) I took a year off to care for our daughter who was 9 at the time. So I continued working with GRAC2 and then decided I would do a full game with George based on the Commodore story from their bankruptcy and beyond which was GQ2 In Search of Queen Lorraine. I used some of the rooms from the experiment GQ in GQ2, but GQ had nothing to do with the new story. I never intended on releasing the original GQ. The story got huge and it soon became clear it would take several games to tell it as GRAC maxes out at 100 rooms per game. But I had to get back to work in early 2002 so I shelved the unfinished project, I just uploaded the buggy, incomplete chapters including GQ to Aminet hoping some other GRAC developer would take them and finish them. No one had. So fast forward to Nov 2021, I retire and going through a box of my old Amiga stuff I came across the materials for the project and decided to finish it. My plan was a trilogy (GQ2, GQ3 & GQ4 covering the period of bankruptcy and beyond) then  after a Prequel GQ1 released separately (which would cover the time when Commodore acquired the Amiga to its bankruptcy.) I have spent the last 4 years, daily working on the trilogy and had great fun. But I have taken GRAC as far as it can go and hope to move on to new development programs and projects, so I shelved the prequel idea. The last part of this project is I am redoing the graphics in GQ2 to match those of GQ3 & 4 (20 of 96 rooms done so far) and will release that as GQ2 Enhanced, and then converting the 3 games to a downgraded version to work on 1mb Amigas. That was going to be it for George.
But there appears to be a lot of interest in GQ1. So I thought I would gauge the community. What are your thoughts?

Would you like a new final, final ;-) chapter Geo's Quest "The Prequel" which will fit into the story? or just clean up the original GQ1 so it plays better and fix the bugs etc, even though it has nothing to do with the story and include that on the site and box set?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Paul

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Already answered this post on EAB. And yes: I want Original GQ1 and even the prequel.