Friday, November 4, 2011

November Updates

These 4 pictures say it all, really.







This is a prototype, More details on what this means to come.

I hope everyone has wet themselves.

If not, be sure to look at picture #2 again. We did it.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Septemberstuff

My last real semester for my masters started recently. As a result, I am slammed with work.

I will be working on Atlantean when I have time. Same with www.pcfxtoo.com.

This doesn't mean I am not actively thinking about things in my head when I am doing other stuff...

Lots of plans for Atlantean to make it go smoother.

Don't fret though! TheOldMan will still be doing his stuff.

The semester is already like 4 weeks in, so theres only 12 left. and then winter break!

and then a thesis in the spring. Oh boy.

Monday, August 15, 2011

MORE AUGUST!

Site redesigned.

Working on OCD tweaking the flight physics for the Atlantean ship so its all slippery like Defender/Solar Jetman/Asteroids/Any game with thrust/counterthrust.

All of the art for the game is done, loaded into VRAM, and operational.

Summer is a busy go-outside-the-house kind of time, so work has been a little slow. It should pick up once August ends.



Saturday, August 13, 2011

Defender is coming along.


I hate HuC.
6502 assembly is very annoying.



Long Live z80, and long live the catbus.



Monday, August 8, 2011

August and stuff

We're all doing more of the usual. I've been reorganizing/diddling around with Atlantean, getting things how I want them.

The scrolling is all set, shooting is all in, custom colorful font is present, humanoids are meandering around the bottom of the screen...

working on screwing with VRAM access for radar.

once thats all in place, I will be adding enemies in, one type at a time to mess with their AI.



Everything else Aetherbyte is shipshape. Go Team Aetherbyte!

and if you haven't seen it already:

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Insanity-X/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025855088f?cid=SLink


You can grab Insanity X for the 360 for just 80 points! That's 1$!

Friday, July 1, 2011

The scoop. Post CCAG, and stuff

Here is what is going on thus far and whatnot. An inside-scoop, behinds the scenes, OMG YEAH. if you will!

Arkhan (Me):
  • optimized/cleaned up Atlantean some. I reorganized it like an OCD lunatic. Worked on it's SFX, and started on new songs. I am happy with the parallax and sprite use.
  • Worked on music for Pyramid Plunder, since the SFX got happy feedback so I consider them done. Now I just need to lrn2Egypt some more for music.
  • worked on music for a friends game: www.metalsavior.com . Shameless plug. Deal with it. ;)
  • meshed out more ideas/plans/code stuff for the rest of the Retrocade.
  • Messing with the HuCard design to slim it up slightly. Following a few more leads on manufacturing nice cards.
  • Taking a break from coding for about 2 weeks (summer vacation excitement! PS3, Famicom and PCE! GO GO GO!)

OldMan (not me):
  • Found/fixed a few bugs in Pyramid Plunder!
  • Working on Jungle Hunt engine (with myself and Sunteam_paul guiding and testing for him as far as controls/playability, and visuals. I think the Atlantean style parallax will be showing up in it)
  • Still tinkering with HuCard construction!

J (also not me):
  • Noodling with Skate or Die 2 prototype to flesh it out into something thats not a prototype.

Sunteam_Paul (our artistic savior):
  • Working on Skate or Die artwork like a mad scientist. That should be our next presentable demo.

There is some other stuff, but that is what is going on thus far.

Its sure nice to have help in the land of Aetherbyte. I suck at art, and programming is time consuming.

I hope some of you buy the Xbox 360 port of Insanity X!

If it does reasonably well, I fully intend to move Retrocade games there.

Get it here!: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Insanity-X/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025855088f?cid=SLink

Monday, June 20, 2011

June!

Well, Insanity X is now 80 points on the Xbox live indie games marketplace!

Go get it! :D

We just did the CCAG on June 18th, and posted videos on YouTube... check em out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k2OPapMSug Insanity X gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdCMv5IbIRI Atlantean!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjAsENyd7wM Pyramid Plunder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJRfPwniNuA Something Epic

yay