http://www.ovinebydesign.com Retro Remakes and Classic Games Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:34:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en test of iphone wordpress, no excuses on not updating the blogg now.. heres 2 new arrivals into our household http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/03/13/test-post/ 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 :D From Clickteam's website: Finally, the MMF2 & TGF2 SWF File Exporter that will allow you ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/03/10/mmf2-can-now-create-flash-games/ Coding and graphics are coming along nicely on our latest iPhone game. We havent got a name for the game yet, but our latest character is all set, is the iPhone ready for OvinebyDesign ? - we shall see. So without further ado, meet REX, REX HUNTER [caption id="attachment_625" width="68" caption="Rex ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/03/05/whos-is-this-rex-coming-to-an-iphone-soon/ [caption id="attachment_619" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Ooooo a box"][/caption] Go checkout the first review of ARMALYTE Link clicky http://justonemoregame.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/first-review-armalyte-official-pc-remake/ http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/03/02/first-armalyte-review/ Other news,,over at JustOneMoreGame hes having an Armalyte week :) "Why Armalyte? Why this week? Maybe I have something special up my sleeve for you…" Oooooo maybe a review of Armalyte ? - hope hes kind. other news is that the iPhone game engine is alomst done - almost ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/02/23/more-news/ Check out the retroremakes new post - They very kindly put CHOLO in their top 5 essential remakes to download. I have very fond memories of coding CHOLO, think it was my first attempt at a full game in 3D and enjoyed every minute of it. Hope theres a ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/02/17/bit-belated/ We have started on our take of The Last Ninja, "The Final Ninja". GFX by Smila, Music by Infamous, coding by me :) Screenies and updates to follow. Were busy at the moment as we are also currently updating our first iPhone game. :) http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/02/12/the-final-ninja/ [caption id="" align="align none" width="400" caption="Armalyte at Retrovision"][/caption] Head over to Psytronik for pictures and report of the first public viewing of ARMALYTE (the remake) soon to be released April 2010. Ive prepared a special version for reviewers/mags etc, so if you interested get in touch with ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/02/10/armalyte-gets-it-first-public-outing/ 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. ;) http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/01/28/ashens-tech-dump-retro-games/ As the title suggests - is there any interest in a Mac version of Bruce Lee ? I dont think theres much work in converting it so I might just compile and release it..... Comment here http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/01/14/any-interest-in-a-mac-version-of-bruce-lee/ Ovine.net has been down for over 24 hours but is finally back up. This not only effected the HTTP but also the FTP access that we have. This meant that the outage was nothing todo with our website and more that the IP address of our shared server ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/01/10/godaddy-support-is-rubbish/ Our first commercial outage is in the form of a remake of the classic c64 horizontal shooter called Armalyte. Its taken over 10 months of work to finish but its been worth the effort. Smila has done an excellent job at mapping the enemy pattens and his graphics are ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/01/05/armalyte/ Merry Christmas everyone from Ovine towers! Hope Santa brought you everything you wanted. http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2009/12/27/merry-christmas/ As the title says, http://forum.ovine.net is back and open for business http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2009/12/22/ovine-forum-back-online-httpforum-ovine-net/ Ive released Jet Set Willy 3.1 BETA to the testers. Lack of time and effort means I will have to rely on the testers to get this out the door. I'll report back their comment and findings in due course. Although saying that its alomst Christmas so im not ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2009/12/21/jet-set-willy-3-1-beta-released/ Ive just uploaded a recompile of Driller using the latest build of Blitz3D and an updated version of our packing utility. This should get rid of a few false positives that have been reported. I'll do the same with CHOLO as there have been some reports of that slowing down ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2009/12/17/mini-update-for-driller/ 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 :D [caption id="attachment_558" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Ovine Swirl"][/caption] http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2009/12/05/the-new-logo/ Im going to hand over the testing in the next couple of days to the beta testers (thanks for those who responded to my plee for testers :) ) Due to lack of time and other projects my time is limited for testing so all the help i can get is ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2009/12/02/jswol-3-1-testing/ 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 things ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2009/11/18/super-secret/ [caption id="attachment_548" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="JSWOL 3.1 In test"][/caption] To help me thru the Armalyte Testing (which is going really well BTW) Im resurrecting JSWOL 3.1 !!! I tried to get AndyH to have a look at it but he seemed less than enthusiastic so Ive taken the reigns back. :) A lot of ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2009/11/12/ooooo-looks-whats-coming/