Metin Seven 🎨1d ago

🧵 1/x

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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Show threadMetin Seven 🎨1d ago

🧵 Game dev years, 2/x

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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Show threadMetin Seven 🎨1d ago

🧵 Game dev years, 3/x

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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Show threadMetin Seven 🎨1d ago

🧵 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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Show threadMetin Seven 🎨

🧵 Game dev years, 5/x

My 320 x 256 pixels intro picture for our 1992 Hoi platform game.

I initially made this in the Amiga's "Half-Brite" 64 colors mode, but the intro's 7-channel music took so much processing power that the image needed to be reduced to 16 colors, hence the harsh sky shades. 🥲

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Mar 21 at 9:36amWeb
Show threadMetin Seven 🎨22h ago

🧵 Game dev years, 6/x

Our composer Ramon Braumuller's 7-channel intro track for the 1992 Hoi Amiga game, made in our own Digital Mugician Amiga music editor.

The Amiga only had 4-channel audio via a custom chip, the other 3 channels were added via CPU power.

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Show threadMetin Seven 🎨14h ago

🧵 Game dev years, 7/x

A scene from level 2 of our 1992 Hoi platform game.

The crane's chain featured a real-time deformation effect.

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Show threadgloriouscow14h ago

@metin

i love his little waddle so much

Show threadMetin Seven 🎨11h ago
@gloriouscow Thank you! 😊 The character sprite had to fit in 32 x 32 pixels, so I didn’t have enough space for a proper walk cycle, but that restriction turned it into a cute waddle. 🙂
Show threadGoerp22h ago
@metin
The creature reminds me of a creature was in the C64 game "Eat your greens"
Show threadMetin Seven 🎨21h ago
@goerp 😃 It's a new game, so maybe he played Hoi. 🙂
Show threadGoerp16h ago
@metin
Ah yes, that's what I meant.
(But my first draft of the post got lost and I had no patience writing the second version and didn't check my text AT ALL 😄)
Show threadMetin Seven 🎨16h ago

@goerp 😃👍

Fijn weekend!

Show threadGoerp16h ago
@metin
Dankjewel, jij ook!
Show threadij22h ago

@metin 320x256 seems to be an icon on the desktop by today standards.

D‘uh!

Show threadMetin Seven 🎨22h ago
@ij Haha, yeah, times have changed. I sometimes miss the clarity and straightforwardness of computing in the 1980s and 1990s, although I try not to romanticize it. I remember already cursing out loud back then when my computer crashed in the middle of a creation session. 😅