The puzzle game 'Dimo's Quest' on CD-i was developed in 1994 by SPC Vision in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. It is based on the Amiga version of Dimo's Quest which features a story about a frog named 'Dimo'. When SPC Vision showed a first port of the original Dimo's Quest to Philips, they did not like the character and the frog should be morphed into something else. SPC Vision went back to the drawing board and they came up with Dimo the 'Pumpkin', who features in a Halloween story. The game was called "Dimo's Quest: Trick or Treat". The loads of candy fitted really nice in the Halloween backstory. The collecting of candy was already in it, and there is an original CD-i prototype with the 'Pumpkin' version of Dimo's Quest.
Cdifan about the development of Dimo's Quest: "The original Amiga game had the frog Dimo, but Philips didn't like the character so it morphed.First it became "pumpkin" Dimo, with a nice Halloween backstory. Here the candies were supposed to be Dimo's friends who had been bespelled by a "wicked wizard". Dimo had to retrieve them all and there were between-worlds animations where they popped back into kids. Then the character morphed again to "cool" Dimo who just loves candy, which is what ultimately got pressed. Everyone I know that has seen the halloween version liked it much better..."
Back to the CD-i prototype, here you'll see some screens of the original story. I love how colorful everything is!
Would you prefer this Pumpkin story over the 'cool' boy version that actually made it in the final version of Dimo's Quest?
[Thanks, cdifan]