News

Our jump’n'roll hit game Jim Slim is also available on 3.5″ disc now, so if you prefer the 1581 or FD floppy disk drive over your old’n trusty 1541, drop by at our Online Shop.

Trixter/Nemesiz.tk/Digital Talk has caught the Jim Slim fever: He not only played through the entire game in a short time, no, he has documented this in a great video clip. Those who have long wondered how to master this or that tricky scene, or simply want to relax watching the game, please watch this clip (lasting over an hour):

With Space Lords P1X3L.net released a new game for up to four players. It supports our 4 Player Interface and was released within the RGCD C64 Cartridge Development Competition 2011. Find out more at CSDb.

Issue 58 of the diskmag Vandalism News was released by Onslaught and Wrath Designs at Syntax 2011 in Australia.

Protovision wise you can find the following in this issue’s “Mini-Market” chapter:

With Sentry, Leon released another Newcomer inspired picture. The entrance to the Monks’ Garden, flagpole and something strange in the sky… Go play the game and you will discover what that something is…

It’s official! Ultimate Newcomer is entering the Independent Games Festival.
For more information see here.

Issue 21 of the German print magazine Retro includes a nicely written review of our game Jim Slim. The magazine can be ordered from here.

This week Pawel has accomplished implementation of mutating blocks feature into Pieces II game engine. That means that we are almost done with our coding efforts, and the only thing left to be done will now be level design. The only bad thing about mutating blocks is that the game engine got noticeably slower now (as now it additionally needs to calculate each possible mutation). However it is not slow enough to affect positive user experience.

At Function 2011 another Newcomer Remix has been released. This time it is “Newcomer Endsequence (Symphonic Rework)” by Orphy. The original SID track was composed by Zoltán Gonda aka Bassman aka Zoli.

You can tune in here:

• YouTube clip
• mp3

Enjoy!