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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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🧵 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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🧵 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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🧵 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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🧵 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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🧵 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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🧵 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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🧵 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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🧵 Game dev years, 9/x
Our 1992 Amiga platform game Hoi ranked at number 2 in the charts of the British Amiga Mania magazine, above Rainbow Islands (Bubble Bobble 2) and Rick Dangerous.
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🧵 Game dev years, 10/x
The British Amiga Action magazine stitched together screenshots of our 1992 Amiga platform game Hoi into a partial map. 😃
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🧵 Game dev years, 11/x
Our 1992 Hoi Amiga game was the subject of a competition to win an Amiga 600 in the British The One magazine.
They didn't scale my graphics properly for the page layout though. 😅
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🧵 Game dev years, 12/x
A demo version of our 1992 Hoi Amiga game on an Amiga Action magazine cover diskette.
The "1 meg only" notice indicated that the Dithell's Wonderland game needed 512 KB of so-called Fast RAM on top of the Amiga's default 512 KB Chip RAM. Hoi didn't need that. 🙂
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🧵 Game dev years, 13/x
Following the 1992 release of our Hoi Amiga game, we were asked to create a custom game for a 75-second Calvé peanut butter TV commercial.
The game was also played in a children's TV show called Telekids, where kids could win their height in stacked peanut butter jars.
The image shows my 16-color game background. You controlled a character while scrolling across the rooms, dodging foes and obstacles.
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@ooRay_creation Yeah, 3.5 inch diskettes were sturdier and easier to handle than 5.25 inch floppies, although I hated it when a shutter had a dent when a diskette was sent by snail mail. Then you needed to tear it off, and make a copy before dust entered the inside. 😅
The "1 meg only" notice means that the game didn't run on a standard 512 KB Amiga. 🙂 It needed 512 KB additional "Fast RAM". Hoi did run on 512 KB Amigas. I'll modify the post to clarify that.
I remember being an early Amiga 2000 owner in 1987 (having upgraded from an A1000 in 1986). The additional 512 KB Fast RAM of the A2000 caused ± half of my game collection to not work anymore. 😅 I think it took at least 1.5 years before most games took the possible presence of Fast RAM into account. 🥲
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