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A thread about my game dev years (late 1980s - late 1990s)โ€ฆ

Our small Dutch dev team's name was initially Soft Eyes. An Amiga shooter titled Venom Wing was our first internationally distributed game, published by the British Thalamus in 1990. I made part of the graphics.

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The box cover artwork for our Venom Wing Amiga game was painted by the late, great Oliver Frey. As a youngster, I was so proud to see the ad in one of my favorite game magazines at the time: Zzap 64. ๐Ÿคฉ

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Our composer Ramon Braumuller's four-channel title track for the Venom Wing Amiga game, published by Thalamus in 1990. The repeating track was made in our own SIDmon Amiga music editor.

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Following Venom Wing in 1990, our next major project was an Amiga platform game called Hoi. I penned down preliminary ideas and sketches in a ruled notebook.

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@metin I absolutely love all your ballpoint pen drawings! They remind me of the sketches I used to make in my school books during boring lessons. But yours are much more elaborate and unique! ๐Ÿซถ
@daniel Thank you very much Daniel, much appreciated! I also made lots of ballpoint sketches in my school books, haha, and rest assured: those were less inspired. ๐Ÿ™‚