http://www.ovinebydesign.com Retro Remakes and Classic Games Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:46:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Little update on the progress of Rocky Memphis, few updates in gameplay since the last video the player speed has been increased The player falls faster lots of powerup including, flight, double jump etc 265 rooms created already, Smila is having a great time on this one. In ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/08/24/new-video-of-rocky-memphis/ busy time at the moment but then that's how I like it we have 2 iPhone games nearing completion, thanks to Ric we have the majority of the gfx done on one project and I have andyh full time on the other one Smila has over 260 rooms done in the rocky ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/08/20/busy/ 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 different games, ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/08/15/iphone-graphics/ smila came to me with a request todo a c64 game, heck i love c64 games but really dont fancy going back to 6502 thank you very much. next best thing, a pc game with c64 gfx and gameplay smila then also said he wanted todo 700 screens - yea ok! ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/08/14/8bit-retro-goodness/ j-OMG have just posted some sad news that the PDF retrogame magazine "Retroaction" is closing its doors. It has been a cracking read, the established retro magazine ;) could take a few pointers. Oh and the last issue has a stonking review of Armalyte as well!! We take it as an honor that ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/08/04/retroaction-has-just-released-their-final-issue/ Good news peeps Ive compiled Bruce Lee and Quantasm for the iMac. I just have to protect the media (as this is automatically done for me in windows) bit more work to be done for the Mac. Oh also seems that I have a problem switching between a window ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/07/20/good-news-for-imac-users/ Im pleased to announce that my lovely wife has just had her 12 week scan, im going to be a dad for the second time ! No problems, in fact he/she is actually 13 weeks, which gives us a due date of the 5th January 2011. Lets hope its ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/07/07/whos-the-daddy/ "Dr Who type thing" demo has just been released. It's a quick "intro" teaser for the upcoming game. Download it here Unzip and run the EXE, oh check out the readme.txt for the key controls. Feedback welcome. Its a platform puzzler based on the BBC Classic Icon Dr Who, comes complete ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/06/30/dr-who-type-fing/ Pop over to the Retro Arcade WIP. Smila has created a little mini site to keep you upto date. Hes not passed anything onto me yet (as Im far too busy to be distracted :) ). Needless to say its looking good so far. http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/06/28/retro-arcade/ Well I've been back a week in time to see England dumped out of the world cup !!! Finally finished bioshock2 and have become bored of MW2 - which means more coding time - YEY ! http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/06/28/im-back-2/ just started our last week in the states. this morning found a 5c retro gaming heaven pure class more dr who when i get back and more news on another iphone game ! we should have 2 for release real soon..... so back to watching my son in a playworld playground (found ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/06/15/last-week/ Rumble, or to give its full title, The Amazing Adventures of Rumble, was one of the few games I got around to completing many years ago on my Atari ST.  Essentially it is a Boulder Dash clone with some new twists and an optional two player co-op mode where you ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/06/08/the-amazing-adventures-of-rumble/ just arrived in rockford illinois after 3 days in new york. we went to the top of the "rock" and i really thought i wason the set of bio shock, it just needed a little sister to run around to make it complete new york was a really nice place to visit ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/06/08/was-rapture-modelled-on-the-rockafella-building/ Im off to the States (New York then Chicago) - wooohooooo Back in 2 weeks ! http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/06/03/holidays-3/ Have I got your attention ? Ok so this a gratuitous plea to help a friend get onto a charity calendar.... This year they recreated a stylish pinup calendar of girls of the 1940’s and 50’s using a mixture of professional and amateur models, with all services being given for free and ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/05/18/gratuitous-plea-to-help-a-friend-get-onto-a-charity-calendar/ Armalyte is now available vis Digital download (£4.99) . The digital download only contains the game, none of the extras that are on the PC-CD BOX version are available. Grab a piece of history with the FULL PC-CD BOX (£16.99) version from http://www.binaryzone.org/retrostore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=87_96&products_id=503 or Just grab the game (£4.99) ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/05/03/armalyte-now-available-via-digial-download/ Going through my Grandads old papers we came across this interesting map dated May 1944. http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/04/28/bernieres-sur-mer-map/ More scarabeous goodness- few more screenies for you [gallery] Oh if you havent gone and purchased your copy of Armalyte, why not ?! http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/04/27/intro-almost-done/ 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 ... http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/04/24/retro-gamer-remake-of-the-month/ armalyte released my copy is in the post. im really excited - in fact a life long ambition GO grab your copy now ! From Here! http://www.ovinebydesign.com/index.php/2010/04/23/armalyte-released/