Category: Features

  • Final Wii Browser: Thoughts Redux

    Last week I complained that the final version of the Wii Opera Browser did not support anything greater than Flash 7.0    Now it, it turns out, that this was neither Nintendo or Opera’s fault.  This information was brought to my attention earlier this week by fellow deveoper Chris Cutler (the…

  • Final Wii Browser: Thoughts

    The “final” Opera browser was released for the Wii yesterday, and after using it I have mixed feelings. They added and fixed a few things that must be noted: better interface more responsive button clicks better performance However, one glaring omission is support for Flash 8.   With tons of Flash…

  • Retro Gone Berserk Day Two – When you can’t draw, you improvise

    Today I had time to work on the very very basic Flash version of the demo game. I have decided to make it as close to Bersek as possible for this first tech demo.  I currently have a room generated and a player running around the room, controlled with the…

  • Retro Gone Berserk Day One

    I was able to squeeze in a little work on the new game between trips to various shopping centers for Christmas presents. One thing I wanted to research is how collision detection is done in these overhead perspective retro games. I fired up the Atari 800 KRAZY Shootout first to…

  • I’m itching to start a new game.

    With Retro Blaster nearly complete, I have decided to start on a new game. This one will be very simple. I plan to do a few simple games in the next few weeks to try out my bitmap animation techniques in a variety of more simple shooters.  Since I love…