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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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๐Ÿงต 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. ๐Ÿคฉ

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๐Ÿงต 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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๐Ÿงต 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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๐Ÿงต 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. ๐Ÿฅฒ

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๐Ÿงต 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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๐Ÿงต 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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๐Ÿงต Game dev years, 8/x

A review of our 1992 Amiga platform game Hoi in the British The One magazine.

The US publisher of Hoi ripped us off, but reading a review with a 90% score in one of my favorite game magazines was cathartic.

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@metin I used to read The One often - great magazine and that's a great score!
@zorrobandito Thanks! I also loved The One. It was filled with exciting news, in-depth reviews, large screenshots. It was sort a predecessor to the stylish Edge magazine.