Rebellion have acquired Bitmap Brother

Noddie

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About the same time as BB reached the height of their powers Guns and Roses became the hottest band in the world. Nostalgia and great and all, but everything has it's time.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Noddie said:
About the same time as BB reached the height of their powers Guns and Roses became the hottest band in the world. Nostalgia and great and all, but everything has it's time.
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I must admit I think some of those Amiga classics are well due a new sequel. I would hope they stick to (at least semi) 2D however
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Some games when you play now without rose tinted specs have not aged well. Others have.

I would say almost ALL BB games are in the "aged well" category.
I do a lot of retrogaming, my own mancave is almost all emulation (with a raspberry pi in the lounge - ( Google omega 128 gb retropi)

But my mate is a proper collector with a huge collection of consoles and classic computers so I get to experience the games in their proper glory still :)

I saw a face off between sensible software and BB maybe 5 years ago at the Cambridge computer museum (it was all good bants with lots of beer). The 2 Amiga heavy weights . Between them they made some great games.
 
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Surefoot

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Xenon 2 Megablast on Amiga was my first vision of 16 bit era and it was mind blowing at the time. These visuals ! That music ! Haha. And yeah Gods, Speedball, Chaos Engine.. these guys had a definite style of their own and rather well made games that indeed aged quite well.
 

Noddie

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Yeah, don't get me wrong. Appetite for destruction is still a great album and hasn't been destroyed by the years. Chinese Democracy, though...…..There is more art to video games than many people realise. They're actually a fascinating amalgam of creativity and logical reasoning.

Also... Well, there is a hell of a difference between a few guys sat in a back bedroom or garage designing games like they did in the 80s to a modern title that will have dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of people working on it. One man (Matthew Smith) wrote manic miner on his own. Now a whole load of people get to interfere and the person designing it may have to include or remove things to please investors or lawyers or whatever else is around - it's not 2 guys in the back bedroom any more.

To be honest. I miss the old ways. I think it would be great to have games designed by small teams of people who then had a massive team of implementers around them to actually do the work - but the creative vision and core design is done in someone's metaphorical back bedroom, even if the person who codes the AI was in an industrial unit working to their specs.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Noddie said:
Yeah, don't get me wrong. Appetite for destruction is still a great album and hasn't been destroyed by the years. Chinese Democracy, though...…..There is more art to video games than many people realise. They're actually a fascinating amalgam of creativity and logical reasoning.

Also... Well, there is a hell of a difference between a few guys sat in a back bedroom or garage designing games like they did in the 80s to a modern title that will have dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of people working on it. One man (Matthew Smith) wrote manic miner on his own. Now a whole load of people get to interfere and the person designing it may have to include or remove things to please investors or lawyers or whatever else is around - it's not 2 guys in the back bedroom any more.

To be honest. I miss the old ways. I think it would be great to have games designed by small teams of people who then had a massive team of implementers around them to actually do the work - but the creative vision and core design is done in someone's metaphorical back bedroom, even if the person who codes the AI was in an industrial unit working to their specs.
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Rebel galaxy outlaw.......
New game I believe made by 2 guys in their spare time. Breath of fresh air really. Sure its scope is limited but what it does it does well.
 

Sunyavadin

Sunyavadin
Rebellion own Bitmap Brothers.
Rebellion own 2000AD
2000AD: home of ABC Warriors.
Z, by Bitmap Brothers, fantastic game of battling totally-not-ABC Warriors, honest.

Gears slowly begin to turn and I like where this could potentially go
 
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