Retro Remakes - new old games - Today!
To begin with I’ll be remaking a vectorgraphics game from 1983 called Zektor and I’ve given it its own page here, where you can read some more about it, but here’s a single picture from the arcade version – just to give you an idea. 🙂
Yay, signs of life. 😀
Phew, I never thought I’d think of something to remake for the upcoming ‘Retro Remakes 2008 Competition‘.
When entering the two previous competitions I didn’t know what I wanted remake until at least a month in, which is a big waste of time given the limited time available, and I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to come up with something worth doing this time either.
Now I’ve finally come up with a couple of possible games, however, if I actually do remake any of them will depend entirely on the rules which won’t be out for a couple of weeks. I hope they’ll be okay to do though, as it’s hasn’t been easy to think of something.
The trick is to not only find a game you’d like to remake, but also one it’ll actually be possible to remake in the time available AND you still have to take into account how much time you think you’re going to put into it. If you’re entering a competition it doesn’t make sense to remake something that’s clearly not possible to do if you want to finish in time – like something with A LOT of ressources or locations in it.
Because of that my choices are relatively small games. Hopefully I’ll be able to make a small but fun game, and should I actually finish something early – well, who knows…perhaps I can find the time to do two games. That’s my plan anyway. I don’t want to take on too much.
Let’s see what happens on september 1st. 🙂
See, this is why I’ve made a ‘Works in progress‘ section – so readers don’t have to go through the newspages to see if there’s anything in development.
Now it’s easier to spot and I’ve just updated the section with X-Quest 2 which I’m working on (sometimes).
Also, I found the time to update the games pages, so they all look right now. Who would’ve thought it would be f****d all up just because I edited the stylesheet to allow for wider posts.
…like I’ve ‘always’ said “I you want problems, get a computer“. 🙂
Finally I’ve decided on a new theme for my site. I’ve looked at hundreds of themes and ended up with about 10 choices, but I still couldn’t commit to one because none of them really satisfied all my requirements. Among other things I wanted was something more simple and elegant than my previous site – something that also looked “less designed”. Well, the answer was right in front of me the whole time. I decided to try the theme used at Retro Remakes – just for fun really, and actually saw most of the things I wanted right there. An acknowledgment of their good choice. 🙂
A bit of tweaking later and here it is.
There is now also a subsection called “Works in progress” to get an easier overview of what I’m working on.
– Nothing there yet though.
A new section called “Other retro stuff” which will be used for retrostuff that falls outside my own games.
I’ve added an RSS feed and soon there will also be Gravatar support.
However, it’ll be a few days until I’ve completed tweaking old posts and pictures to look better under this theme.
Perhaps I can get my ass in gear soon and ramp up my programming efforts. I’m only programming about once a week and that unfortunately means I’m getting close to nowhere with my WIP’s…and I so want to get on with my projects.
See you later. 🙂
/Sokurah
