The Great Giant Sisters
Description
The Great Giant Sisters is an unofficial DOS port/recreation of The Great Giana Sisters. It uses Amiga version style graphics and sound effects, and recreated Commodore 64 soundtrack. While the game relatively accurately reproduces the core playing mechanics, the items which grant Giana additional powers are not implemented, resulting in a different style of gameplay compared to the original Giana Sisters. The layout of levels is also not the same.
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Development history
The DOS version of The Great Giana Sisters started as an entry for a game competition during the Mekka & Symposium demoscene event in 1998. The rules required that the size of the submission not exceed 32 kilobytes. This version of Giant Sisters, first released on 11 April 1998, featured 9 levels, 2 monster types, Adlib music and no sound effects, and ended up taking the first place in the competition. Based on its success, author Rainer Sinsch continued development of the game, adding new features, levels, monsters and sound effects. It was planned to eventually implement all game mechanics including the missing powerups, but the development of the DOS version was ultimately suspended in favour of a Windows version that evolved into a separate game known as Giant Worlds.
Game title & copyright issues
During development and some time after that, the project was known as The Great Giana Sisters, but in October 1999 the title had to be changed to Giant Sisters for copyright reasons. Internally the game still shows the title Giana Sisters, as it was never updated since the last release in 1998.
Already during the development of the Windows sequel, Rainer Sinsch obtained permissions from original Giana Sisters developers Armin Gessert and Chris Hülsbeck to use graphics and music from the game, and to distribute Giant Worlds. It is not clear if the permission retroactively extended to the DOS version, but it was not taken down from the site, perhaps for historical purposes.
Level editor
Rainer Sinsch eventually released a level editor for Giant Sisters, allowing users to create their own levels.
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Game added May 9, 2017. Last modified April 18, 2024.