Blood (DOS)

Blood

Platform: DOS Year: 1997 Developer: Monolith Productions Inc

Blood is a gothic horror style game using using Ken Silverman's Build engine. From a technology perspective, it comes after Duke Nukem 3D and includes some additional features like early sector-over-sector support and 3D sprites (voxels). The sector-over-sector support was further refined after the game's release, and by the time Shadow Warrior was released, all of the glitches had been fixed (however no update was ever made to backport the fixes to Blood.)

Screenshots

The title screen. I live...again! (early in level 1.)

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Music

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
101	Unholy Voices	Daniel Bernstein	7:08		Download
102	Fate of the Damned	Daniel Bernstein, Mike Cody	2:55		Download
103	Double, Double, Toil and Trouble	Daniel Bernstein, Guy Whitmore	2:08		Download
104	Dark Carnival	Daniel Bernstein	2:51		Download
105	Infuscomus	Daniel Bernstein, Guy Whitmore	4:36		Download
106	Waiting For the End	Daniel Bernstein	3:11		Download
107	Father Time	Daniel Bernstein	4:51		Download
108	Pestis Cruento	Daniel Bernstein	5:11		Download
109	Mall of the Dead	Daniel Bernstein	0:35		Download

These tracks have been recorded from the game's MIDI tracks using a Roland SC-55. This was the premier MIDI synth available at the time, and the device the songs were designed to be played back through.

There are issues with the timing of this recording.

#	Title	Sequence	Filename	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
01	CBlood 1 (Shareware)	Blood - F	CBLOOD1.MID *	?	2:08		Download
01	CBlood 1	Blood - F	CBLOOD1.MID	?	2:08		Download
02	CBlood 2 (Shareware)	C5	CBLOOD2.MID *	?	2:26		Download
02	CBlood 2	C5	CBLOOD2.MID	?	2:26		Download
03	CBlood 3	Blood -D	CBLOOD3.MID	?	2:04		Download
04	CBlood 4 (Shareware)	Blood - E	CBLOOD4.MID *	?	2:19		Download
04	CBlood 4	Blood - E	CBLOOD4.MID	?	2:19		Download
05	CBlood 5 (Shareware)	DBlood4	CBLOOD5.MID *	?	1:48		Download
05	CBlood 5	DBlood4	CBLOOD5.MID	?	1:48		Download
06	CBlood 6 (Shareware)	untitled	CBLOOD6.MID *	Daniel Bernstein	2:34		Download
06	CBlood 6	untitled	CBLOOD6.MID	Daniel Bernstein	2:34		Download
07	CBlood 7	*H comp up	CBLOOD7.MID	?	2:31		Download
08	CBlood 8	*Blood J	CBLOOD8.MID	?	3:17		Download
09	CBlood 9	*G comp2	CBLOOD9.MID	?	2:53		Download
10	CBlood 10	Seq-1	CBLOOD10.MID	Michael	2:25		Download
11	Pestis Cruento	GM_Blood Theme	PESTIS.MID	?	6:05		Download
12	Unholy Voices (Setup)	*unholy comp1	UNHOLY.MID †	?	0:32		Download
12	Unholy Voices (Shareware)	*unholy comp1	UNHOLY.MID *	?	3:44		Download
12	Unholy Voices	*unholy comp1	UNHOLY.MID	?	3:44		Download
13	Blood 1	None	BLOOD1.MID	?	1:21		Download
14	Blood 4	None	BLOOD4.MID	?	1:04		Download
15	Blood 9	None	BLOOD9.MID	?	1:18		Download

* Early versions of these songs appear in the shareware CD (0.99) version.

† An early version of Unholy Voices (comprising mostly of the piano) is used as the test music in the normal shareware audio setup.

The last three tracks (13-15) were only used in the shareware CD (0.99) version and were removed for later releases, except for track 15 (DBLOOD9.MID) which remained inside the game setup and is used as test music when checking that the music device is configured correctly. It is still referred to here as the Blood Theme, despite never actually being used in the game itself.

Credits

• Ripper: Malvineous
• Recorder: Brandon Blume, Nuke.YKT
• Game Credits:
  • Sound Engine: Peter Freese, Jim Dosé
  • Music / Sound Programming: James Ackley, Daniel Bernstein, Peter Freese, Jason Hall, Cassano Thruston, Guy Whitmore, Greg Whitmore
  • Additional Music Development: Loudmouth

Game Rip

Format	Download
,	Download (Info)

The music is located in SOUNDS.RFF, with another song inside SETMAIN.EXE (used for the music test.) The registered and shareware versions are much the same (with the shareware version lacking a few songs), however unusually an early shareware version was released on CD with the version number 0.99. While not quite a beta version, it was early enough in the development cycle that a number of changes were made before the later releases. This includes a number of major changes to the music, which are included in the rip. The MIDI files were ripped with Camoto. The recordings are from Brandon Blume's SC-55 Blood music pack.

Audio Devices

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Releases

This game is missing releases.

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/blood - MobyGames.