## Description

_Dizzy and the Other Side_ is an adventure-platform game by Alexandru Simion,
the creator of the Dizzy AGE engine which allows fans to make their own Dizzy
games. The game was made with version 2.2 of the engine. Alongside the small
games “Dizzy and the Healing Potion” and “Dizzy and the Mushroom Pie” it was
one of the games that Alexandru and Cristina Simion made to test and show the
capabilities of the recently announced engine.
In the game Dizzy is having a nice day when suddenly the wizard Zaks sends him
to the other side to look for the missing Stone of Balance, a mysterious item
that gives balance to all magic in the land. As usual, Dizzy has to travel
through different areas and encounter many dangers before he can find the
stone and return it to its place.
Unlike most Dizzy games, the game is divided into five levels or “acts”. The
full version was ready in 2008, but the initial “promo” version, containing
just the first act and a short preview with screenshots from further areas
with a “conversation between the player and the developer” (along the lines of
“Please, just one more”), was released in 2006.
The game can be downloaded from the Dizzy AGE website, its own site or the
Dizzy portal Yolkfolk.com. The game’s site also hosts an ongoing competition
where players can score a higher place through finding as many diamonds as
possible (there are 60 of them, but some are hidden or hard to reach), shorter
play time and fewer reloads.

Dizzy and the Other Side