http://www.zolyx.co.uk An indie gamer's hobby-coder weblog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:57:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It doesn't take much to convince me that mixing things together is good. After all, I know this from experience: mixing toast and marmite together, for example, gives possibly the tastiest snack in the entire history of the world. Ever. Delicious foodstuffs weren't on Markus Persson's mind, however. Instead, he ... http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/retro-roundup-blast-passage/ Progress! Dalyn's Quill is coming together slowly. As you can see, the dungeon canvas now draws as it should do and can be edited with the default pens (the pen selection toolbar doesn't work yet). It breaks embarassingly often, and annoyingly strange and weird stuff happens if you push more than ... http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/who-was-where/ 2009 Happy New Year! It's a time when a lot of people will be thinking about what their New Year's resolutions should be. But keep in mind: New Year's resolutions can be bad for you! :P Whatever you decide you want to do this year, I wish you good luck and success ... http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/happy-new-year/ Ropor has already had a bit of coverage as it's been available since before the competition entries were officially unleashed onto all of the interwebs. Still, for such a cracking game, too much hype can't possibly be a bad thing, so let's zerg forth with today's Roundup! It comes courtesy ... http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/retro-roundup-ropor/ For this latest Roundup entry thanks go to xCept who brings us this remake of the decidedly Japanese NES hit, Kickle Cubicle. Is everyone sitting confortably? Then let's begin... You control Kickle, a fairly well built chap whose job is to collect all of the magic bags on each screen so ... http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/retro-roundup-kicklec/ Merry Christmas and a happy new year from Zolyx! http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/seasons-greetings/ I was initially going to do a Roundup on Monuments of Mars, but then I thought - "Hang on a minute, that'd be three platform games in a row. No good!" :P So, instead, here we have Revenge of the Punched Tape. It's a fairly simple game but one that is ... http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/retro-roundup-revenge-of-the-punched-tape/ I watched the first public preview video for Owlboy yesterday after it got a mention on the IndieGames blog and Destructoid. Having not known about it before then, this took me by surprise... I absolutely love the music - heroic and sweeping with a great mix of 8-bit blippiness and orchestral ... http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/hoots-mon/ Hmm. Despite a lot of people saying that Saboteur! and its sequel were brilliant games for their time, they kinda passed me by. Playing Mini-Saboteur gave me a chance to see what I missed... or not, as the case may be :P FatSeagal has become quite well known for his miniaturised ... http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/retro-roundup-mini-saboteur/ Wahey! It's The New Zealand Story all over again! From Auckland Game Works comes this remake of Taito's 1988 arcade platformer, featuring a lively cast of wildlife including snails, hedgehogs, sharks, pukekos and lots of cuddly kiwis. The story goes that one day a mad alien sheep in a flying saucer ... http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/retro-roundup-the-kiwis-tale/