New Video From Retroware Delves Into Progress on ‘The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest’ [Watch]
Retroware has dropped a new video talking about the development of their Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest tribute The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest, which was first announced back in January. Hosted by Retroware Creative Director Justin Silverman, the video goes over the origins of the game, before diving into the nitty gritty of its inner workings.
Originally starting out as a joke by solo developer Programancer, Simon Quest was coded in the Game Maker engine. According to Silverman, the game was never intended to be a serious project, and so the questionable coding reflected that. Despite this, the game started gaining traction, so he kept working on it, which resulted in the problematic coding and its issues stacking up.
As a result, the code has been stripped out and reworked to fix numerous issues, including optimization, proper aspect ratio and more. The result has made it possible for Simon...
Originally starting out as a joke by solo developer Programancer, Simon Quest was coded in the Game Maker engine. According to Silverman, the game was never intended to be a serious project, and so the questionable coding reflected that. Despite this, the game started gaining traction, so he kept working on it, which resulted in the problematic coding and its issues stacking up.
As a result, the code has been stripped out and reworked to fix numerous issues, including optimization, proper aspect ratio and more. The result has made it possible for Simon...
- 3/21/2024
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
To mix things up for its 15th annual edition, the TromaDance film festival has moved! (Yet again.) This year, the grotesque festivities will take place on June 27-28 at The Paper Box art space in Brooklyn, NY and will include loads of short films and four features.
The features are: Drew Bolduc‘s hotly anticipated Science Team, the follow-up to his masterful exercise in offensiveness, The Taint; the acclaimed penile documentary The Final Member by Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math; Olivier Beguin’s new twist on vampirism, Chimeres; and the fighting cannibal action of Evil Feed by Ray Smith.
The short films include international offensiveness and gore from such far-flung places as Italy, Belgium, Estonia, Australia and, of course, the good ol’ U.S. of A.
The full TromaDance lineup is below. For more info, please visit the fest’s official website.
June 27
5:30 p.m.: “Short Films Block 1″
The Bachelorette Party,...
The features are: Drew Bolduc‘s hotly anticipated Science Team, the follow-up to his masterful exercise in offensiveness, The Taint; the acclaimed penile documentary The Final Member by Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math; Olivier Beguin’s new twist on vampirism, Chimeres; and the fighting cannibal action of Evil Feed by Ray Smith.
The short films include international offensiveness and gore from such far-flung places as Italy, Belgium, Estonia, Australia and, of course, the good ol’ U.S. of A.
The full TromaDance lineup is below. For more info, please visit the fest’s official website.
June 27
5:30 p.m.: “Short Films Block 1″
The Bachelorette Party,...
- 6/23/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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