Our coder is having his personal goal to finish the final boss coding this week! Go Go Go! :)
Back In Action!
Due to a server upgrade some things were going nuts, anyway… the Giana’s Return page is back ;) News to follow…
A big thanks goes to David ( http://davr.drunkencoders.com/ ) for helping out with this issue! Go and visit his page, enjoy his progs! NOW! :D
Giana Sisters DS Webpage up!
The “Giana Sisters DS” webpage is up. It’s the OFFICIAL SEQUEL. It’s pretty interesting.
Don’t forget to buy the official game to support the developers!
https://www.giana-sisters.com/
Update:
After checking the official webpage some of us are having the impression that few worlds are themewise matching… :)
Hidden features!
As every good game, also Giana’s Return will have a bunch of hidden features. Every port will have modified access to each hidden feature,to keep the fun up.
Updated Videos anyone?
Is there demand to have new up to date videos, or should we concentrate getting things done?
No public PSP version, why?
It’s very simple – Spellbound and Bitfield are working on an official sequel. Giana’s Return is a fan project with the intention to make fans happy, but Spellbound and Bitfield of course want to make money (and they deserve it) with their official Giana DS game.
Once there is a official DS game and you already have graphics and music, the next logical step is not too far away. Fact is, there is a chance they are going to consider releasing on other platforms. It’s just a guess from us and not something official, so don’t get it wrong.
We are fans of “The Great Giana Sisters” so if we want to see another commercial Giana game, we have to respect the legitime rights of the copyright holders. They should sell their game on whatever active platform they like.
Giana’s Return will stick with old systems, which wont be served with the new commercial part, or with economical uninteresting consoles and handhelds such as the GP32, GP2x, Pandora and Wiz.
We hope everyone will understand this!
Once the PSP becomes obsolete, we can release Giana’s Return without problems. Just a question of time… :)
Ubuntu Linux Giana’s Return
While the project is comming closer and closer to a final shape, we are working on the “Ubuntu Linux” version too.
This makes now the following systems having Giana’s Return running and working: Ubuntu Linux, Windows XP (32-Bit), PSP (Will NOT be released) and GP2x.
Update: To make things more clear, this is what we currently do have and which does run on hardware. If a system is not mentioned here it does not mean that we wont serve it :)
MikMOD hell!
We had issues with our MikMOD player. It somehow leaves out channels or instruments. Unfortunatly we do not have too many alternatives due to system or licence limits.
The windows development version is now using BASS.
Swamp Early Preview Shots
Sample mockups, still with tiny tiling issues – NOT FINAL!