October: Finished Something

November is upon us and there were some excellent responses to our call to finish something.

First up we have Spraydough  a RR sourdough ["It means 'early settler'" - Ed] back behind a keyboard and bringing us one of those frustrating “I’ll just get by this level” puzzlers. Check out Gatecrasher.

Another cerebral challenge comes from another RR regular Ian. With a casual mention of starting something and then posting finished versions for the PC, GP2X F200 and Wiz the next day, he makes us mortals feel inadequate. Check out Drench.

Jayenkai didn’t actually enter since the requirement to finish something and not somethings was too constraining. Instead he continued on his Game A Week quest and produced four games! Checkout Blockman Gets DS, Munky’s Block, Yip and Guesstimates.

What annoys me most about Jayenkai doing four games in the month is that it totally screws up my formatting of this page. Which, while dreadful to begin with, I now need to pad out with this rant just to try and get it back to being awful.

From four games, to half a game. Mr Toucan finally stops writing abstract templated interfaces ["But still writes about himself in the third person" - Ed] and gives you?, us?, them? DDBJ.

As posted previously there were two additions to the plethora of Manic Miner remakes. These two certainly raise the standard; Manic Miner the Lost Levels DS is this year’s must have Christmas present for your DS.

But just in case your poor mobile phone gets jealous Scottige wraps up Mr Smiths original classic a delivers a top notch remake. Check out Manic Miner Mobile.

Lobo must have several clones since as well as doing graphics for MMLL and Betpet’s WIP Auf Wiedersehen Monty, and lots of other stuff, he also put out the first six levels of the rather spiffy looking platformer Horace In Geistburg.

The first appearance of Mr. Bacon to RR brings a remake of a Spectrum shooter by a company called The Edge Software ["Never heard of them. Do they still make games?" - Ed]. Check out Starbike.

With the October crunch deadline over I’m looking forward to trying Mike Macdee’s latest exploration into the top-down-action genre with Inframan.

Another RR regular back behind the keyboard is The Caffeine Kid and a glorious return it is to. With the original author’s blessing, TCK has remade the superb Cruising On Broadway in true style with updated graphics and sound. I fully recommend paypal’ing a few quid his way to get your name on the online scoreboard just to beat Bob. Check out COBEX – Cruising On Broadway Extra.

Finally Sparkes not only got Virus Wars out thus securing his iPhone game dev course place, but also completed delivery of a new playtester and future RR member. Congratulations!