The Farewell Affair GBA

The Farewell Affair
The Farewell Affair
General
Author	Nagame
Type	Shooter
Version	Demo
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2005/12/16
Links
	Demo + Level editor Download
	Website

The Farewell Affair a homebrew shooter with level editor, developed for the GameBoy Advance game console (unfinished). This idea of the game comes form the book Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century.

Farewell's engine uses the Raycasting rendering technique, invented by IdSoftware in 1992 with the famous game Wolfenstein 3D. You can read more about the 3D engine here.

User guide

Background

"One of the biggest spy cases of the 20th century." - Ronald Reagan.

Do you know the story of the "Farewell" mole?

If we were to name the 4 biggest moles unmasked in the 20th century, there would be 3 for the benefit of the KGB:

Aldrich Ames, head of counterintelligence in charge of monitoring Soviet agents within the CIA.
Robert Hanssen, top official at the FBI.
Charles Hernu, former French Minister of Defense under François Mitterand.

And 1 for the benefit of France!

What does the story say?

In July 1981, at the Ottawa summit, a few weeks after the formation in France of a government which worries Washington because of its four communist ministers, François Mitterrand gives Ronald Reagan a file which reassures him completely about the true intentions from France.

This is the Farewell case, which the President of the United States will say a little later that it is one of the greatest espionage cases of the 20th century. A brilliant student in a high-level technical school, a great sportsman, a model family man, Vladimir Ippolitovitch Vetrov has the typical profile of a good spy.

Quickly recruited by the KGB, he operated brilliantly first in France, then in Canada, before being assigned to an analyst position which allowed him to do a full tour of Soviet technological intelligence. However, the zeal soon turns into frustration and, tired of everything, including his personal life, Vetrov decides to take the leap: in the spring of 1980, he contacts the French counterintelligence, the DST.

The adventure begin. Vetrov becomes Farewell. In the face of the all-powerful KGB, Farewell provides Westerners with proof that the USSR is fully aware of their most sophisticated weapons; it also gives the names, country by country, of the agents working for it. A game where reason of state sometimes prevails over the security of the mole... But it is not this game that will lose the impulsive and uncontrollable Vetrov.

The impossible choice between his wife and Ludmila, his mistress, will lead him to commit the irreparable: in February 1982, he tries to kill his mistress and kills a witness of the scene. Tried and sentenced to fifteen years in prison, he finds himself in the gulag, from where he sends touching letters to his family. It is there that his espionage activities are reconstructed by the KGB's research heads.

Sentenced in December 1983 by the Supreme Court of the USSR for high treason, he was executed in March of the following year.

Fiction vs reality:

Well, that's what the books say. Because in reality, for the DST there was no question of dropping his mole so easily: Vetrov is fifteen years of espionage in France then in Canada, ten years of bureaucracy within the PGU (the espionage branch of the KGB) and several internal files on the weaknesses of the PGU and the KGB, clearly a real gold mine.

After a failed liberation in the spring of 83 in the gulag, a new operation is about to be launched. It will begin on January 15, 84, just 2 months before the execution. The DST managed to fix a civilian inmate at the Lefortovo prison, a young cook. He has to give Vetrov a knife hidden in a meal.

From this moment, Farewell will only be able to count on himself for the escape. A diplomatic car will be waiting outside. If the operation succeeds, the KGB leadership will have no choice but to cover up the affair.

This is your last chance, Farewell.