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ONE OF THE JOYS of being a software reviewer is discovering companies that design fun, creative and intelligent products. It is even more exciting when the company is new, but already demonstrates the aforementioned qualities. Rich Diamond (suggested retail $24.95, coregames.com, 877-267-3426), the premiere entry of Core Concepts, a small game development business founded last year in San Gabriel, Calif., suggests the company has a promising future.
Rated appropriate for everyone, the game is targeted to ages 14 and up, with a version for younger players, "Richie Diamond," due to be released this month. The player assumes the role of the title character, an Indiana Jones-style adventurer searching for gems in a variety of scenarios and mazes booby-trapped with tumbling rocks, arrows set on hair-triggers, bombs, lava, water, pits, zapping robots, slippery and cracked ice, and ravenous, tarantula-like spiders.
The game's 80 progressively challenging levels are solved by collecting all the treasure while avoiding, destroying or...