Tag: GAMING
Adventure is often considered to be the very first text adventure. It was written in 1975-76 by Will Crowther. Don Woods found it at his university, asked Will Crowter for the source code, expanded it greatly, and released his own version, which we now know as 350p Adventure. Adventure was sometimes called Colossal Cave Adventure. Sometimes it was just called…
In our new episode we welcome Marius Gosch, one of the founders of the Broken Sword 2.5 project. (which also runs on Amiga btw thanks to being added to ScummVM since 2016!) He’ll tell us about some insights and his work as a story- and puzzle writer on this amazing fan-made Broken Sword 2 sequel of the adventure classic. The…
In our new episode we are talking with Charles Cecil. He is a British video game designer and founder of Revolution Software, best known for games like Broken Sword or Beneath a Steel Sky. The interview section starts at minute 1:03:08 Enjoy! listen to/watch at: https://scene.world/brokensword
This is a huge one! We are very proud and happy to welcome the one and only John Romero – the co-creator of Doom! In this episode of our podcast he is talking about his long-awaited autobiography ‘Doom Guy: Life in First Person’. Tune in for gaming’s original rock star! The interview section starts at minute 31:17 Enjoy! listen to…
In this episode, we talk to Alex Brown, coder in the team that is creating the brawler “Metro Siege”, the first of its kind which works on a vanilla Amiga500 and includes multiplayer online crossplay (Amiga, web browser, Steam PC). We talk to him about the technical finesse and firsts the game is putting its toes in, while being a…
Rockstar ate my hamster is a cult classic, but why?
In 1987 Capcom, under the guidance of director “Akira Kitamura” released Mega Man on the Nintendo Entertainment System, sales were disappointing, to the point where a sequel was canned..until the developers within Capcom decided to produce the game in their own free time. And then on the 24th December 1988 Rockman 2 was released to the Japanese Public. And a…
Back in the late 80`s there was a phenomenon about to launch in the UK, (No i`m not talking about shell suits) i`m talking about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (In the UK the Ninja was replaced to Hero Because…you know….reasons). Konami released one of the greatest arcade games ever into the arcade in 1989, the 4 player simultaneous play…
Stuart Collier (Code), Trevor Storey (Art) and Richard Bayliss (Music), are currently working on a new c64 game called “The Sky is Falling”. As the title suggests the game involves literally keeping the sky from falling! To do this you must avoid various enemies and traps including running from a massive boulder Indiana style, avoiding nasty birds, while shooting at…
The open-source Dolphin emulator has been able to run nearly every GameCube title since 2009, but one title has stumped it — Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It turns out that the 14-year-old game used some pretty clever, tricky-to-implement memory tricks. However, the team says it finally cracked the game with a more accurate memory emulator, which had the added…
