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It's going to completely freak everyone out if there turns out to be a character called Darth Mandarb in this movie!!

One must leave an element of mystery, you know!

Oh Dave oh Dave.. I feel unbelievably happy when I check this thread 

Haha glad to hear it mate!

We're getting towards the completion of Act III, will be going back and adding / improving some graphics and animation, then adding voice acting and some more SFX.  It's all coming together quite nicely.

My fondest memories are often linked to getting a new adventure game on the Atari ST and playing it with my sister - we have very different ways of thinking so we make a good puzzle-solving combination

Battling Zak McKraken for 2 YEARS before finally completing it (albeit ending up with a massive sense of "oh, so... we're not going to play this any more??!? ) is a strong memory, but spending an entire day playing and completing The Secret of Monkey Island (without hints - but I think we solved a couple of the tougher ones more by luck than judgement) was a particular highlight, as was (later on in the PC years) playing Curse of Monkey Island and Escape from Monkey Island.

Come to think of it, all of my best memories are really of multiplayer games - from Feud on the Speccy to Supersprint and Rampage on the ST with my niece and nephew, multi-event sports games that could be played with the whole family (Winter Events on the C16, The Games: Summer Edition on the ST and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games on the WII) were great.  DynaBusters+ was an Atari STE exclusive DynaBusters game and was absolutely phenomenal in 4 player mode.  Gauntlet 2 was great fun in multiplayer too, although mainly because of the IT monster and the sound samples ("Blue Elf needs food, BADLY!").

Other memories include going round a mate's house and playing whatever new game he'd rented for his SEGA MegaDrive (Genesis outside the US I think) and just playing it until we completed it, playing other AG's with my wife (Lost Horizon a particular favourite), and being secretly jealous of the Amiga A1200's abilities when I went round a mate's after school and played The Chaos Engine.

For single-player experiences, nothing quite beats finally getting to the end of a really epic RPG, or winning everything in sight on a footie game (I like both FIFA and PES for different reasons, love taking Liverpool to domestic and European domination in any of them) - from Jon Ritman's International Match Day and Match Day 2 on the Speccy through Microprose Soccer, Kick Off 1 & 2 and Player Manager on the ST, FIFA and PES on the WII and New Star Soccer on the PC, footie games have a life of their own.  Haven't played one in ages though, just can't get the time.  Although thinking back playing Elite 1 & 2 on the ST, and Freelancer on the PC, was also very cool.  Plus two of my all-time favourite games, Pirates! and Populous on the ST, which were AMAAAAAAAAAAZING single-player games, although like most others my sister and I somehow managed to turn them into sort of 2-player games as well...

Nowadays, my best gaming experiences are actually seeing / hearing / reading other people enjoying games that I've designed or been involved with making.  I just can't seem to get into actually playing games very much at all these days.


I'm gonna stop before I remember more games, you've really set me off here!

I was racing to make a breakthrough
But had trouble with my brake crew
Got distracted by the lovely lake view
Now I'm surrounded by a hake zoo

>Armadillo

Grats on the release!  Interesting and unusual storyline.

How do you find Tyranobuilder?  I have it sitting in my Steam account but have never got round to actually trying it.

Wow some impressive and interesting results there.  Before I got to your paragraph after the pics I was thinking about how easy this could make creating the graphics for an AG.  That sausage man gave me the creeps though!

Looks interesting - thanks for making this.

These are all partial screenshots - we don't want to give too much away

You are a teaser Captain

Looking good

One must leave an element of mystery, you know!

Perhaps voicing every character myself wasn't the best idea - it seemed like a good one at the time for some reason!

I can't wait to hear you dub the nose lady

Um... did I really say I would be doing ALL of the voices?  (I am for the other, much smaller Captain Disaster game - Dark Side of the Moon - but not this one!!)

Good luck with the pre-orders!

I've decided not to go ahead with the pre-orders just now.  I'm not happy about the idea of taking people's money when I don't yet have a confirmed release date!


Thanks everyone for the comments and interest.   (If you like the "nose lady" then wait till you see... ah I can't really tell you, but you'll love the character, I promise )

Which Doctor is it supposed to be?  Looks a bit like Sylvester McCoy to me.

[she should be wearing pink socks]

Yeah, since we don't have pink socks, we should have included that paint her fingernails pink puzzle...

I'm gonna say this before the Mods destroy this conversation - she should be wearing pink socks.

Could you make it a little more pink?

Sloth? is this you trying to get to your adventure game location?

haha

Brilliant!  That was actually our sloth's audition reel, didn't know it gone viral

Hmm... interesting.  I feel that I should know this but can't quite place it.  As a guess purely because I think the graphical style was similar I'm going to say Treasure Island - but I don't think that's what it is.

Considering it takes place before A New Hope

Ah... thank you for that, I actually hadn't realised when it was set.

Okay I take it back!

I mean, seriously, have they actually...

Spoiler

got ANOTHER Death Star in this thing?  Or do you think that snapshot at 0:50 was just a red herring?

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http://www.moviereviewsandnews.com/2016/04/star-wars-rogue-one-trailer.html


(EDIT - silly me, I hadn't realised this actually takes place between episodes 3 and 4, I'd been thinking this was ep.8!  Duh...)

That's what it's like when you're married CaptainD! For me it's making games rather than fishing, I tell her she's "Stifling my genius."

Hehe I'm married with two kids mate, I don't think the "stifling my genius" line will help but I'll give it a shot!   My kids are possibly young enough to believe I'm a genius but they'll soon grow out of it...

Glad to hear you're still making progress Monsieur!

We're always making progress but if you post an update for every little thing the project gets done there is nothing left to discover for the player.
Not that we post a newspost about every progress we make, do we?

Sheesh way to make a big deal out of a simple encouraging comment Selmiak!!

Are you actually going to have a game where the player character sits there moaning about how his wife has been moaning at him?!?! 

ANOTHER game... you're quite insane, but that's what I like about you.

Glad to hear you're still making progress Monsieur!