Retro Remakes - new old games - Today!
What better way to celebrate Christmas than by making a Christmas game for you, right? 😉
So, I’ve decided to make a small game for Christmas and I’ve decided on a remake of ‘The Snowman‘ which was originally released by Quicksilva in 1983.
All the graphics are done and so are most of the code.
The game should be finished in a couple of weeks – just before Christmas.
The Snowman - Level 1
Oh man, this is beginning to be “my thing” – distracting myself with new projects and not working on what I should be working on. *sigh* 😉
I completed my last game about 3 weeks ago, and I think it turned out very nice, but now I am, not surprisingly, working on a new one. Although I’m itching to getting back to Psycho Pigs I just wanted to do another “small” game and preferably something christmassy…and I found one.
I’ve been working on it for a couple of weeks and all the important stuff is done. What’s left are all the small things and the gameplay…which is also very important of course, but all the hard things like player movement and pathfinding are done. Oh, and since it’s another remake and I’m currently using the original graphics so I also need new graphics for it too, but there’s still plenty of time before christmas. I hope to have it done in…ohh…about 3 weeks or so.
I’ll post more when I have something that doesn’t look like a Spectrum game. 😀
Isn’t it just typical? I’ve honestly had a bit of trouble motivating myself to work on my primary projects lately, and just as I was settling into a nice rhythm of doing almost nothing, some crazy curry-munching ungroomed, overly ambitious and sheepishly-looking admin decides that I should get my finger out. I take this very personally but on the other hand – how can I say no to a scary thing like that, eh? 🙂
Over at Retro Remakes Bob has decided that October is ‘Finish Something Month‘ and although the threat hasn’t been spoken out loud I’m afraid my dreams will be invaded by purple squids if I don’t comply. Scary indeed – who wants squids in their dreams.
Luckily I’ve been fooling around with a smaller project which is almost finished, so I hope to finish it sometime later this month. The original game is not exactly the best or most complex game in the world but it could really benefit from a remake as it’s pretty…shit really. Hopefully my remake will be slightly better.
I’ll announce it here when it’s done but it will probably not be downloadable from here or even carry the names ‘Sokurah’ or ‘Tardis Remakes’ but not because it’s shit but because of something else, which should be obvious once it’s out.
