And that's me confirmed and booked for Kickstart Expo (Derby) in August. Two days of #Amiga nerding out! Where I'll be happy to talk about the old #DMADesign days (probably).

#RetroGaming

https://www.amigashow.com/

Grand Theft Auto revolutionized gaming with its top-down, open-world action-adventure format, where players embraced crime to rise in the underworld. The game’s origins trace back to 1994, when Mike Dailly created a first prototype using innovative 3D cube rendering. By 1995, the engine evolved into a top-down cityscape, leading to the iconic GTA franchise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPaI6HrWKH0

#GrandTheftAuto #GTA #Prototypes #DMADesign #BMGInteractive #RetroGaming #GamingHistory #MSDOS

Grand Theft Auto (1997) is the trailblazing action-adventure game that introduced open-world chaos and criminal freedom to gaming. Developed by DMA Design, it lets you rise through the underworld in three fictional cities. The ECTS Competition demo is a 3Dfx-exclusive slice of gaming history, offering a modified, streamlined mission and a rare look at the game’s pre-release evolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Vhh5LMdYs

#GTA #GrandTheftAuto #DMADesign #RetroGaming #GamingHistory #ECTS #3Dfx #MSDOS

#TIL that #Tanktics was also made by #DMADesign (now known as #RockstarNorth, famous for #GTA). Today I also remembered that game exist, and that I kind of liked it at the time.

On the one hand, there are plenty of “you are a cursor in a strategy game”, on the other, there are not enough of them. And they are also all different from each other.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/11093/tanktics

[RETRO V.G. ADS] (US) Uniracers (1994) (SNES)

#advertising #Uniracers #SNES #videogame #retrogaming #adstv #ads #cm #games #gaming #Nintendo #DMADesign #US #1994

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iOUiJU69JSM

Last Saturday was the #DMADesign yearly curry night. *Lots* of coding talk! Remarkably, no-one opted for dessert and it was over too soon.

We made Lemmings, the original GTA, Hired Guns and others.

Thanks to David and Dan for the pics.

Has that really been a year¹ since the last #DMADesign curry night? Heading out tonight for a catchup. We made Lemmings, GTA, Hired Guns and more.

Drink, food, and some slagging off of R*ckstar.

¹±a couple of weeks.

DMA Design Legends Discuss Lemmings, GTA & More in New Zzap! Live 2025 Interview

Zzap! Live: For anyone fascinated by Scotland’s rich videogame heritage, a newly published interview with some of the original DMA Design team members offers a captivating journey back to the origins of some of the studio’s most iconic titles.

If you’re new to this, DMA Design was the creative force behind global phenomena Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto. Several of the original team members, including Mike Dailly, Gary Timmons, Steve Hammond, Russell Kay and Brian Watson, recently attended the retro gaming event Zzap! Live 2025, and a recording of their group Q&A session is now available to watch on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/wim-7mbX6a0?si=Zsg6tMw0aRhWsNgY

The interview, titled DMA Design, Creators of Lemmings, GTA & Shadow of the Beast. Q&A Talk at ZZap! Live 2025 Event, was published on May 23, 2025, on the “Back to 8-bit YouTube channel. Spanning nearly an hour and a half, the Q&A discusses the genesis of the studio’s games.

Zzap! Live, an event celebrating the golden era of retro videogames, provided the perfect backdrop to share their insights into the creation of classics like Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto, Shadow of the Beast and more.

Don’t miss out on this fascinating piece of game development history. You can watch the full DMA Design Q&A from Zzap! Live 2025 here.

(And if that inspires you to learn more about Lemmings, the feature-length documentary, Lemmings: Can You Dig It?, is streaming now. You can find it here.)

#dmaDesign #events #games #gta #history #lemmings #scotland #ShadowOfTheBeast #ZzapLive