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A thread about my game dev years (late 1980s - late 1990s)…

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. 🀩

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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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🧡 Game dev years, 4/x

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 There needs to be a finished game that looks like those pen drawings!
@RobeeShepherd Yeah, that'd be nice indeed. πŸ˜ƒ

@metin @RobeeShepherd In fact, there is a game that uses this idea, and I think it works really well aesthetically:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3150030/Paper_Battlefield/

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A strategy where battles are limited only by the boundaries of the notebook! Experience a unique real-time strategy experience where every battle unfolds on the pages of a sketchbook, and all your units and structures are drawn with ink!

@daniel @metin That’s quite a cool idea for a game around pen and ink