🧵 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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🧵 Game dev years, 14/x

A short, looping 4-channel chiptune track by our composer Ramon Braumuller, made for the "Peanut Butter Power Game" we developed on an Amiga for a 75-second Calvé TV commercial in 1992.

The game was also played in a children's TV show called Telekids, where kids could win their height in stacked peanut butter jars.

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🧵 Game dev years, 15/x

Our next project was a small-scale puzzle game called Cognition, published in 1994 by the Dutch Amiga Magazine.

I grabbed the video from internet. The player could have solved the puzzles in less moves. 🙂

Turn on the sound to hear some of the title music and the in-game sounds.

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🧵 Game dev years, 16/x

As the video of our 1994 Cognition puzzle game in the previous post only featured a short snippet of its title tune, here's the full 4-channel Amiga tune by our composer Ramon Braumuller.

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🧵 Game dev years, 17/x

Next to our Cognition puzzle game, we also developed a puzzler called Clockwiser, published in 1994 for the Amiga (OCS + AGA), CD32 console, MS-DOS and Windows 3.1.

You can play the MS-DOS version online:
https://dosgames.com/game/clockwiser

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🧵 Game dev years, 18/x

Our composer Ramon Braumuller's energetic title track for the 1994 Clockwiser puzzle game.

It was made in the 7-channel version of our Digital Mugician music editor, adding 3 CPU-powered audio channels to the Amiga's 4 channels.

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🧵 Game dev years, 19/x

The box front + back of our 1994 Clockwiser puzzler, featuring my game graphics.

Sadly, like the US publisher of our 1992 Hoi game, the British publisher of Clockwiser also didn't pay us. Those years were like the Wild West of game development. 😔

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🧵 Game dev years, 20/x

Reviews of our 1994 Clockwiser puzzle game in British magazines: one in Amiga Format and two in CU (Commodore User) Amiga. One of the CU Amiga reviews covered the CD32 console CD-ROM version of Clockwiser.

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🧵 Game dev years, 21/x

Our 1994 Clockwiser puzzle game on the cover CD-ROM of Amiga CD32 Gamer magazine. I've photographed the CD-ROM on top of the contents page.

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🧵 Game dev years, 22/x

Surrounding Clockwiser development, we had also started creating Moon Child, a sequel to our 1992 Hoi Amiga platform game. Moon Child was aimed at the then-new AGA Amigas, and featured Hoi as an automated sidekick.

The video shows an early demo version.

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🧵 Game dev years, 23/x

In 1995, a Dutch media company offered us a steady job where we could develop Moon Child as a semi-independent game dev division.

As Commodore went bankrupt in 1994, we were required to restart MC development for Windows, enabling us to increase the resolution to 640 x 480 pixels.

The game's scrolling is smooth, but I reduced the frame count for the GIF.

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🧵 Game dev years, 24/x

Our composer Ramon Braumuller made a tune for the initial Amiga version of Moon Child, featuring the lyrics "It's Moon Child, oh oh oh ooh! You've got the power to be his friend!" 😁

But after reinitiating MC for Windows, we decided to leave out the second part. 🙂 This is the final CD audio track for MC's title sequence.

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🧵 Game dev years, 25/x

In World 2 of our 1997 Windows platform game Moon Child, you need to make use of upward blowing fans to float your way through parts of the level.

The game's scrolling is smooth, but I reduced the frame count for the GIF.

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🧵 Game dev years, 26/x

Our composer Ramon Braumuller's thumping Techno track for world 3 of our 1997 Moon Child Windows game, larded with sounds from Ramon's Roland TB-303.

In this world, Moon Child flies through a futuristic fortress with a jetpack, shooting his way across enemies and obstacles.

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🧵 Game dev years, 27/x

A scene from Moon Child World 3 (1997).

The game's scrolling is smooth, but I reduced the frame count for the GIF.

Check previous posts in this thread for Moon Child music tracks.

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