More Insanity

Posted by oddbob on September 17, 2006 · Lovingly Filed Under Development Log 
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Work is going well I gather on the Insane Idea, its a collaboration between the lovely chaps at Ovine By Design who are handling the coding duties more than capably and helping us realise the concept, myself, my compadre Mr Smila and collaborator (the ever put upon) Mr Scottige. The ultimate remakes team? Lord knows! I’ll let you know if we pull this off…

So far I’ve been charged with room building duties alongside Smila and Scott - with a fair amount of rooms to be built each, Stu Ovine has kindly fired an editor our way to make it as painless as possible (and it *is* a lovely editor I might add), Smila is handling the ferocious boss duties and organised the selection of rooms that we each get to handle on the game - there’s all the original rooms of the original game to go in and 30 extra rooms each or thereabouts of our own construction…so the map will be absolutely enormous and give you plenty to explore when and if we make this work.

As usual, I’m absolutely gobsmacked at the speed both Stu and Smila can work at, they’re an absolute powerhouse team and things have gathered pace faster than I expected - only the other night I was invited to join in a test of some of the core backend stuff, which was incredibly surreal and almost like a regression to how I always imagined computers would always look way back when I was 6 or 7 years old. Needless to say, from the little insight I got that night I’m incredibly confident they can pull this off now - still a long trawl ahead, but without me behind any of the coding reigns its certainly got a chance of getting completed before 2010.

This is pretty much uncharted territory for remakes and I’m certainly not aware of anyone who’s attempted anything even remotely like this before - fuck knows how it’ll all go down with the baying mob of downloaders, but if nothing else, it’ll make some people raise a smile and give a few people a few hours of enjoyment, maybe more ;)

Anyway, on a complete tangent I’ve also tidied up the reviews section of the blog and you can now read them all from the very nice link in the side bar without having to trawl the blog if you can’t be bothered. Don’t forget you can also drop me a nod if you want your game featured here… anyway, back to the room building for me before Smila hits me with a rolling pin.

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2 Responses to “More Insanity”

  1. Richard on September 17th, 2006 5:10 pm

    More hype than a GameTunnel Article! :D

  2. oddbob on September 17th, 2006 10:23 pm

    Did I mention its a match3?*

    *its not.

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