Blogs for Andy
iPhone graphics
Posted by Andy H on Sunday 15th August 2010 | 2 Comments
Finished my part of the graphics on the second iPhone game we have in development with Ric, Andrew and Stu so I’m now back on the first, that mysterious Rex character. Hopefully we’ll have both games available soon. For now, here’s a sneaky peak of what’s to come…
Two...
Bernieres-sur-mer map
Posted by Andy H on Wednesday 28th April 2010 | 3 Comments
Going through my Grandads old papers we came across this interesting map dated May 1944.
Retro Gamer – Remake of the month
Posted by Andy H on Saturday 24th April 2010 | No Comments
In case you missed it, Stu’s remake of Armalyte is out now and very good it is too.
Also out now is the new Retro Gamer and it’s deservidly been given the Remake of the Month award … no surprise considering it also has the excellent graphics from Smila and tunes from Infamous.
Go...
New shader for MMF2
Posted by Andy H on Friday 2nd April 2010 | No Comments
I’ve dipped a toe into pixel shaders after looking at Looki’s lens shader and modified it to work on an objects surface rather than on the background beneath the object. Both Looki’s and Ovine’s version have their own advantages and are useful for certain situations:
Ovine...
MMF2 can now create Flash games
Posted by Andy H on Wednesday 10th March 2010 | No Comments
Earlier this week Clickteam announced the release of the MMF2 Flash exporter … this allows you to create games that run through Flash in your browser. Requires version 10 of the flash browser plug-in…I’m well impressed
From Clickteam’s website:
Finally, the MMF2 & TGF2...
Ashen’s Tech Dump Retro Games
Posted by Andy H on Thursday 28th January 2010 | 3 Comments
Had this funny Retro game related snippet passed on to us today … if only more games existed like this back in the day who knows where we would be now.
Merry Christmas
Posted by Andy H on Sunday 27th December 2009 | No Comments
Merry Christmas everyone from Ovine towers!
Hope Santa brought you everything you wanted.
The new Logo
Posted by Andy H on Saturday 5th December 2009 | 1 Comment
The observant amongst you may have noticed something has changed on the top of every page … the new logo is GO!
Expect to see the Ovine swirl in all future Ovine flavoured productions
The Ovine Swirl
Super Secret
Posted by Andy H on Wednesday 18th November 2009 | 3 Comments
About time I posted something about what I’m up to. Testing something super secret at the moment, very exciting, can’t say anything more about it … yet (so much for posting what I’m up to then ). Also been drawing some cartoon style doodles while playing around with neat...
Simple question, complex answer…
Posted by Andy H on Tuesday 8th September 2009 | No Comments
Our tumble dryer packed in recently and we had to buy a new one. A nice shiney new model arrived the other day and reading the instructions there is no mention of a feature that all the websites and reviews have been saying it has. So I send a question off to the well known company (name witheld...
Retro Goodies for Sale
Posted by Andy H on Monday 31st August 2009 | 2 Comments
I’ve some old Retro Gamer magazines for sale on eBay if anyone is interested. They’re all early volume 1 issues from 3 to 9 (but not 8 for some reason). These duplicate copies have been lying around for ages I thought I’d better get rid of them…no point in having two lots.
If...
Norton is dead, Long live ESET
Posted by Andy H on Thursday 13th August 2009 | 5 Comments
Norton Antivirus finally gave up today after my subscription expired. If you’ve been following our blogs recently, you’d have read that I had some comical Norton customer support that went no where. Well today it looks like the actual product is no better.
No sooner as it told me I...
Teserae Amiga game dug up
Posted by Andy H on Sunday 9th August 2009 | 2 Comments
I recently found an old Amiga game I made back in 1992 called Teserae and put it on the downloads list. The game was a remake of Teserae on the Atari ST which in turn was a remake of Tetris. You’ll need an Amiga or Amiga Emulator to play it. I’ve not created a disk image yet, so you’ll...
JAVA version of Echo the Mouse
Posted by Andy H on Monday 3rd August 2009 | 1 Comment
I made a game with Multimedia Fusion 2’s (MMF) new JAVA export around this time last year using my Echo The Mouse character. The game was to be used in a special JAVA version for BluRay players which had pretty low hardware specifications. As such the game had to be fairly simple. That...
Spriter animation tool
Posted by Andy H on Sunday 14th June 2009 | No Comments
I’ve picked spriter up again after a long rest. I started Spriter (i think) in 2004 when it looked more like DPaint. I decided to change it a few months later to look more Windows-ey which was a good idea as I could make use of the standard controls and windows. I kind of got side tracked...
Microsites working
Posted by Andy H on Sunday 10th May 2009 | 2 Comments
All the Ovine microsites (see the links in the footer of this page) should be working ok now, including the download links. Let us know if you have any problems with either the high score uploads or the pages.
C/C++ section added
Posted by Andy H on Saturday 9th May 2009 | No Comments
Just found a nice article on Cymon’s Games website about setting up a nice free C/C++ IDE, compiler and a selection of essential libraries so have added some information and further links under the Development menu. Thanks Cymon, pay him a visit if you are interested in learning more …...
Forums open for business
Posted by Andy H on Monday 20th April 2009 | 2 Comments
The Ovine forums are now open for business. Go to http://forum.ovinebydesign.com/ if you want to join up.
Jet Set Willy is back online
Posted by Andy H on Friday 17th April 2009 | No Comments
The Jet Set Willy website and portal functionality is back online.
You can now play and register your games with the website. To see who’s currently online, visiti http://jsw.ovine.net/
Norton problems!
Posted by Andy H on Wednesday 15th April 2009 | 3 Comments
Not a great week for computery software reliability here in Ovine towers. Over the weekend I found a copy of Sega Rally Championship in a charity shop for a pound which said was XP compatible. Having many fond memories playing the original four seat arcade version many years ago I thought I’d...
Flash problems
Posted by Andy H on Thursday 9th April 2009 | No Comments
Yuk – sometimes you can waste an hour of your life trying to kick your computer into shape. Today I started up my lappy to only find You-Tube and our Tag Cloud not working. Both are using Flash. The videos on this site are fine, but not when viewing directly on You Tube. Uninstalling and...
And now for something completely different
Posted by Andy H on Tuesday 7th April 2009 | No Comments
Some content added now, more coding done (not much left to do now!), but while you wait why not study Ovine Aviation from the classic MPFC on YouTube …
Welcome, please mind your step!
Posted by Andy H on Wednesday 11th March 2009 | 4 Comments
Hi everyone … if you’re looking for ovine.net please bear with us. We are currently giving the place a lick of paint and will have all pages, links and downloads working again soon.
You can get to the downloads page here for the time being.
Armalyte Released
** ARMALYTE OUT NOW! **
£4.99 download version
FULL PC-CD BOX version! (£16.99)
Stu-Cam
Andy-Cam
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