Misc Games

These are other games which aren't necessarily related to RetroDev, but have been worked on by various members of the RetroDev crew. They’re demos, experiments, and games that aren’t complete enough to make it to the ‘Games’ section.

"The Naked Game"
The worlds first piece of online conceptual video game art

"The motivation behind this piece was to further explore the degree to which video games can be considered 'Art', by using the constituent parts of a well known gaming experience to explore themes of freedom, restriction, and frailty."

View here

 

...Disorder - A CHAOS Remake

Turn based multiplayer wizard battle-em-up based heavily on 'CHAOS - Battle of the Wizards' by Julian Gollop, and is more of an evolution of the idea rather than a faithful remake.

It was origionally intended as a simple concept sketch in Dark Basic, but became an obsession a few years back over a long summer of boredom. The result is that it's in a fairly complete form, aside from a few bugs, and you can have a full multiplayer hot-seat game of it (Like the original - Who plays CHAOS alone!?!).

Features - Chaos evolved

- The 50 fully animated creatures are now hatched from eggs, rather than dished out randomly. They can also level up.

- A large, scrolling, randomly generated map to explore, with fog of war and different terrain types. Magic forests / dark woods are now created by modifying existing trees.

- Improvements, such as magic armour, are now collectables rather than spells.

- Soundtrack Composed By POST MORTEM, Birmingham's premier metal band!

Download Here - Brief instructions included

 

Zoo Crew

Zoo Crew. It's a Cel-Shaded Puzzle Game, and perhaps the largest project I've worked on so far. Produced by Team Brick, it won one of the top prizes in 2003's 'Dare to be Digital' competition.
Was featured in EDGE and DEVELOP magazines.

"A deranged beaver, a megalomaniac squid, a confused kangaroo, a bubbly French firefly, and a jazz-loving monkey must all work together to escape from the zoo and then pursue their individual goals in the outside world."

Team Brick Was...

Matt Griffin
Stewart Hogarth
Steve McGreal
Callum Matherson
Ben Bradshaw

Corpse Wars

Part of 4th year project, this is another game based loosely on the Gollop Classic, but is in fact more akin to 'Worms'. Deforming terrain and spectacular particle effects are just a couple of the features of this game, which was very innovative at the time it was made. Up to 4 wizards can battle it out across a 3D map, summoning creatures and throwing all manner of spells at each other.

Team Bucket Was...

Jawad Ahmed
Matt Griffin
Stewart Hogarth
Steve McGreal
Ross Nicholson

Puzznic

Puzznic is an old-skool block sliding puzzle game originally by Taito. It's probably the most 'pure' remake we've done, because the basic gameplay has remained identical, and a lot of the levels in this version are also taken from the original. Slide blocks around the level to eliminate them all!

 

Download Here

Union of Heroes

Union of Heroes is a nod towards Fury of the Furries and The Lost Vikings. Combining the platform and RPG genres. Guid your characters around the level, using the special skills of each one to achieve your goals. The nimble Elf may be able to navigate the levels more easily than the hardy Dwarf, but he'd never stand up as well in a brutal fight!

Joust World

Joust world is a re-make of the classic Williams arcade game 'Joust'. This version, however, features no AI opponents…. It's a competition between human participants, an avenue which wasn't really explored enough in the original game. Up to 8 of you can participate rather than just 2, over a network.