Category Archives: Games

May 13 2012

SpaceVenture : Space Quest return

 

Creators of Space Quest series (Two Guys From Andromeda) present SpaceVenture, a similar adventure game project, based on donations from users. In first 5 days (over 35 planned days) the project still received 150 000$ (mostly 15$ to 500$ per backer) on the required 500 000$.

Contributors will have access to preview versions (based on HTML5). The final game however will be a standalone application (no browser required) that will work on all systems.

A Sci-fi adventure from Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe working happily together as a team once again.
Hilarious death sequences
Tons of the fresh (and moldy) pop-culture references
Fun and unique humor
Art design and direction by Mark
Dialog that will make you blow nostril Tang, written by Scott along with Mark
Narration of all this by Gary Owens and the voice acting of other characters by the above mentioned quality industry voice talent.
Game music that will hopefully give you chills and wedge in your main orb for the rest of your natural Earth life and make you wish you lived inside your computer!
A game that you will feel comfortable playing with your children, but with some entertainment that will safely appeal only to the adult psyche

I still composed a music inspired from Monolith Burger theme (Space Quest 3) and also mastered Roland D-20 versions of the original musics (using game sounds converted from MT32 and edited for the D20).

Apr 27 2012

Deus Ex Human Revolution on 320M

As supposed, Deus Ex Human Revolution should work with Nvidia 320M as stated by Feral at their Facebook :

Many unsupported cards will run the game, but with a bit of stutter, so we understand that you’d rather see for yourself.
If you meet the other specs, the game will work on that card. The only reason we don’t “officially” support it is that there is still a little bit of stutter, and we want all officially supported machines to have perfect performance.

The game is available through the Mac App Store (39,99 euros, 15 GB).

Mar 29 2012

Rolling Madness / Marble Madness source

While there hasn’t been recent news on the planned Marble Madness version for iOS (expected to include original levels and new ones), we can find two projects about adding 3D to the original 2D isometric game :

- Rolling madness (Window version here – based on SDL however source code not provided) includes the original 6 levels with 3D transforms and dynamic camera (a video is available here).
- Marble Madness source (blog here) brings new versions of first two levels using Half Life 2 Source engine, and enhances the abstract style and deep effect (a video is available here).

Mar 2 2012

Real Myst for iPad 2

Cyan announces Real Myst for iPad 2, expected this Spring. We can watch a preview video. This version features better lighting and textures filtering than the original 2000 version (this one is still available for PC at GOG – also works on mac under Crossover – and Steam).

Dec 28 2011

Aemula : free DOS emulator for iOS

Aemula Oldies S is available for free at the App Store. This DOS emulator for iOS (requires 4.0 then should work on a 3G model) is bundled with 10 games.

It may be pulled from the App Store soon (as was iMame), as a workaround to add other games to the disk images has been provided at toucharcade forums.