elland: the crystal wars

There were a lot of games planned for the Game Boy Advance that never made it, and one of the more interesting and ambitious plans was for a first-person flying shooter game based around the Dune license. The developer, Soft Brigade, eventually lost the license and renamed the game “Elland: The Crystal Wars,” but the project did not see completion before the GBA’s shelf life expired. But that’s not the end: the game could be completed after all. The recent release of a new Dune movie seemed like the right time to look into it. John Roo of Retro Room Games has picked up the rights and source code, and plans to create a finished version…but you know where this is going. He needs your help to do that. “Development of the game started in 2001, but in summer 2002 the project was cancelled,” explains Roo. “We obtained the rights to bring it back and finally give it the official physical release it deserves!” There are 23 missions in the