Overview of current projects.

February 1, 2010 · Filed Under Competition fever, Horace in the Mystic Woods, Omega Race 2009, Psycho Pigs UXB, Remakes · 2 Comments

I don’t post nearly enough but I thought I’d make a post about what open projects I have going on – just so you know I’m not watching TV all the time.

If you look in the menu above there are three titles – Psycho Pigs UXB, X-Quest 2 & Horace in the Mystic Woods, but I have two more titles I haven’t written about yet.

* Star Castle. This is a classic vector graphics game and it’s nearly done. Actually I could probably upload it as it is, but I’m not quite satisfied with it yet so I’ll work on it a little longer. Visually it’ll look like Omega Race 2009 and you can click >here< to see a preview of the menuscreen.

So, Star Castle should’ve been done now, but “unfortunately” I’ve been distracted (again…as usual ) by a new project which I started about a week ago. A new competition over at Retro Remakes to make a PBeM game (Play-By-Email) caught my attention and I thought it could be a fun project to work on.

* ALIEN. I’ve always liked Laser Squad and I originally wanted to remake that for the PBeM competition but I realized it was probably a bit too much to try to remake that in two months. Instead I decided to remake the ZX Spectrum game, Alien – which is a singleplayer game, as a multiplayer game and I think it’s going to work. It’s still early days so there’s not screenshots yet.
When I have something interresting to show I’ll post it in my thread on the Retro Remakes forum >here<.

The game will allow up to 5 human players to play against each other. Well, up to 3 player can play humans and 2 players can play the aliens, so it makes sense to play humans against aliens. The game is set on the Nostromo and will play like a Lite version of Laser Squad. The competition will run for another two months and end on april 1st. so hopefully I can finish this one and get on with Star Castle and then those pesky piggies.

Tags: Usual excuses

Pork chops….AI HA!

June 1, 2009 · Filed Under Psycho Pigs UXB · 2 Comments

With my short vacation from Psycho Pigs UXB, to make Omega Race 2009, it’s been a while since I’ve worked on my pork-project but now I’m back to working on the piggiegame and is making good progress.

Since all the graphics in the game are done and I’ve shown pictures of both the menu and a couple of in-game screenshots I thought I’d show something new now. The game has a total of 13 enemy pigs and they are all introduced in their own way. There’s a girlie-piggy, a biker, a pirate, a ninja, a robot and lots more, so you should have plenty to look at once the game is finished. I can’t say exactly when that’ll be, but now that I’m feeling recharged and is back to working on the game I should be making speedy progress.

Here’s a stillframe from the introduction of the ninja-pig.