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It's the year 198X. You know what to do.

7/15/2013

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Vintage Hero Logo
I'm pleased to announce Vintage Hero will be available on the Xbox Live Indie Games Marketplace Wednesday, July 24th for 80 MSP! Here's the deets...

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When Earth comes under attack by alien invaders, the peaceful denizens expect their old hero, Giga Man to once again save them. When it's clear he's too wrapped up in the tempting night life of the robot glitterati, it's time for a new hero to arrive. Help Floyd, an unassuming custodian at the county jail, his mentor Mac and his lifelong friend Kricket defeat the evil General and his invading alien army!

Action, platforming, and everything you love about the 8-bit gaming era brought back to the modern world with a classic chip tune soundtrack and a gripping story.
  • Over 25 unique enemies and seven punishing boss battles
  • Six challenging stages to play through in easy, normal and hard modes
  • Earn and use special weapons and items to defeat enemies and pass obstacles
  • Gain experience points to level up stats like defense or attack, and grow stronger


Out of the lethargy of legends begins the dawn of new heroes…
You can also download the complete original 8-bit soundtrack for free!

Check out the main entry on Vintage Hero for more.
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Release is Imminent

7/2/2013

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Vintage Hero Box ArtArtwork by needyourdisease.com
Well it's been a while but I've been chipping away at Vintage Hero in the last few months. I'm happy to say the game is done! I still have to go into peer review and I'll announce a release date after it gets approved but for all other considerations, Vintage Hero has gone gold. To the left is the game box art and below you'll see some game videos and the back of the box I'll be sending out in the press release. Here's a description of the game story:

When Earth comes under attack by alien invaders, the peaceful denizens expect their old hero, Giga Man to once again save them. When it's clear he's too wrapped up in the tempting night life of the robot glitterati, it's time for a new hero to arrive. Help Floyd, an unassuming custodian at the county jail, his mentor Mac and his life long friend Kricket defeat the evil General and his invading alien army!


As you can see in the video below, the game is done in a retro pixel-art style and is obviously heavily influenced by Mega Man, but with my own added twists and level design that hopefully come together to make a fun game. If your a Mega Man fan, a fan of platformers or retro action/adventure games I think you'll find a lot to like here. Here's the trailer and game intro:




Vintage Hero Box Back
Finally, to the right is the back of the box. No one will really see this outside of press releases and on my website but I thought it was a cool thing to make anyway. Click to see it bigger.


Vintage Hero is coming to Xbox Live Indie Games followed by "other" platforms in the near future. The release date will be announced soon.

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Dream Build Play 2012

6/11/2012

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Vintage Hero Screen
Once again the deadline for Dream Build Play rolls around and this time I actually have something to submit! While it's not finished, Vintage Hero is actually pretty tightly polished up through the fourth level. The last two levels and final boss sequences are still being worked on, so I didn't include them in the DBP build.

Browsing through the gallery of the entries so far has left me tremendously impressed and even a little bit intimidated. There's some really good looking games being submitted that seem like they'd be a ton of fun to play! At the very least, it's confirmed my plans to find an artist to punch up the graphics a bit once I get closer to completion on the game. I'll leave you with the recent trailer made for the contest entry and say good luck to all the devs who are submitting this year! There's gonna be some great games to come out of this year's challenge!


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Space Racer

11/27/2010

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While Old School Hero is continuing to be developed, I decided to whip together a nice 2D racer for release to the marketplace. So with that, I'm announcing Space Racer as the next release from Frog The Door Games. It's a 2D top down racer set in space with twelve tracks, four ships, head-to-head jump-in-anytime two player competitions and a trippy neon art style. The idea was to make a simple and fun two player game that wouldn't take long to develop assests for, but still be impressive to look at and have a good amount of replayablity. The result is a frantic take on what's kind of a cross between Spy Hunter and F-Zero. Here's a video of the game in action. Expect Space Racer to be on Xbox Live Indie Games this December.


Meanwhile, Old School Hero is coming along nicely. I've picked up ProMotion 6 to do the pixel art in and it's so much better than using Gimp. A lot will get done this Decemeber and I should have some video up by the end of the year.
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Old School Hero

9/21/2010

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So I've decided to continue to put Tales of Leisure on hold until I can get the graphics looking how I'd like them to be. That means an artist who is not me should be employed. Meanwhile, I've started work on the next project: Old School Hero. While at first glance it may appear to be just a Mega Man clone, I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing. The 8-bit Megaman series is one of my favorites and I've always wanted to take a shot at designing levels in that style. I'm hoping I can live up to the expectations fans of Megaman have for solid, challenging gameplay and they find it worthwhile to pick up while waiting for Megaman 11. Also, the music must be awesome.


Here's some early video showing off the weapons and items. Notice the barren, uninteresting red tiles. The levels will not be like this in the final game. Here are screens of some pixel art I've been working on for the magma level.

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