hi!
About 10 years ago I developed a bunch of VGA Arcade shooter games for Dos. Typical one man show, All the artwork, sound effects, music, programming, etc. from scratch in a fast interpreted language called Euphoria for the PC. They were cool back then and fun to play. Here are a couple of youtubes of them running under dos box on the PC:
Star Ranger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAt2MOEEtU0OidZone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJMQlca0DxMI think these would be a blast to have as homebrew on the Wii, but I don't have the mad Wii skills needed to code these. Getting too old to learn all these new tricks. lol. I do have the original commented Euphoria source code, and all the data files, all the original artwork, sound effects, background music, font definitions, as well as a book I wrote with a complete source code explanation for OidZone, the basis for the game engine they all use.
Any game programmers out there who'd like to be part of a collaborative project?
The games would need to be coded from scratch with the original source code as a blueprint, and I can rework the original artwork and screen designs to better fit the Wii. The original code is pretty straight forward, and commented pretty well.
If anybody is interested I can provide links to zips of the original games to play on your PC. (dosbox on the Wii plays these incredibly slowly - 1 fps)
Eventually, I'd like to re-produce all six of the games for the Wii. They all work the same internally. Three of them are similar to OidZone in how they play, one is a space invaders clone, and Star Ranger modeled after Threshold on the Apple II. I also have a Pacman clone that was never finished, but had full AI and was playable.
I used to do game design for a living, and produced these as a hobby and as an experiment in doing something fun in the Euphoria language. At the time, nobody had ever tried doing fully "professional" games in the language. I even wrote a book on the process to try and spur interest.
My interest for the Wii is, again, to add some really fun and professional looking games into the homebrew community. I'd personally love to have people playing my games again. They look cool on the Wii screen.
Thanx
Michael Packard
Lord Generic Productions
Practically Righteous Studios
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/10/2009 07:06PM by berighteous.