This may be the last movie before the game is released. Hope it is not too much of a spoiler.
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Movie of Stage 13 and 14
Hmm…although I do suck quite badly at this game, maybe Stage 14 is a bit too fast?
Finally Getting There
This may come as a bit of a surprise to anyone who has been patiently following the progress of the project over the years, but the game is actually nearly ready! Virtually all the level data and graphics are complete and a fairly small list of changes remain to be done. Most awkward may be having to use a modified palette when running on NTSC machines, or rather, what those colours should be. Supposedly the PAL and NTSC machines produce similar colours, but it seems that some blues show as green or something like that. I may post some colour samples and ask people with NTSC machines to let me know what is the closest available colour from their machines. Or maybe someone more knowledgeable on these things can let me know how to map the colours to their equivalents?
Some more screenshots before what will hopefully be a release in the not too distant future.
And some early work on the final boss, who has the unusual and sometime snigger inducing name of “Wiwi Jumbo” (No, I don’t know why either). He’s also none too pleased about it, judging by the way he throws his toys out of his pram. (Please excuse my little British colloquialism – it does makes sense if you know what happens in the game here).
New Website and Hosting
Since I haven’t done anything to the site in a long time, and I need to post some new stuff soon, I thought I’d better check out how other people are doing their websites these days. I wanted to create a nice Standards based site using some preferably free software. I didn’t get on that well with any of the free website building software I found, and given that this site is sort of a Blog, I thought some basic Content Management System such as WordPress could do the job. It’s fairly flexible and there are hundreds of free themes, widgets and plug-ins available to base your site on – although customizing them to look exactly how you want can be pretty complex and frustrating.
I changed my hosting company too, as Fasthosts don’t provide the MySQL database that WordPress needs on their basic package. I came across quite a few horror stories on the Internet about almost any hosting company that you care to think of (!), but decided to go with EZPZ Hosting in the end, as they seem like good value. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
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