The missing mid-boss arrived earlier this week with 2 new backgrounds (snow and lava worlds). The game became multilingual too (first, english and french).

The coder is back from vacation, while the project organizer is leaving to catch his plane in 3 hours. Tho everyone of the staff has the ability to post here… it’s unknown if someone can motivate him or herself enough to post progress news.

Even if no one is posting news here, things are managed to keep on rolling ;)

Just for those who are too lazy to browse back…

We hope to make your ears happy :) Feedback is appreciated.

https://www.gianas-return.de/media/op3rator_-_hyperactive.ogg

This track is one of the ingame tunes… more to come, maybe ;)

Recently we had a complaint about someone who is “sick” of waiting for the game. Everyone should understand that most of the team members have a job and/or going to university – many of us have a 40 to 60 hour week – along with that we have kids or family.

Giana’s Return is a project done in our exremly rare sparetime and good things take time. Don’t forget that you are getting this game for free, you have not paid for it and in case you donated for it, you did this because you enjoy v0.90. v0.90 alone has commercial quality and the final version of Giana’s Return hopefuly blows that quality up once more.

There are also major changes – The code is beeing written again from scratch, most of the graphics have been replaced by better looking ones, the soundtrack has been finalized and the biggest difference, backgrounds are beeing 100% hand drawn – each world has an endboss now. Implementing those take time, unless you want to have a buggy release.

Thanks for your understanding!

We have shown you few end bosses so far, the other 2 are still in progress and should be drawn within the next month. Unless the ones we already have shown you, those 2 will remain a secret – so you are not losing the pleasure to find it out yourself :)

Actually that one was going to be shown on 1st Januar, but there were some troubles of private nature which prevented this. Anyway… here we go:

We have been talking about “stalling” the Dreamcast version, but not cancelling it. There is a hughe difference. Please keep the rumours down – The only fact so far is, that unless last time, the Dreamcast Version won’t be released first.