Tag: Windows Phone 7
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Jet Pac – Graphics
The Original Sprites The initial idea was to make remakes of the original games. The first prototype for the Jet Pac remake running on Windows Phone 7 is shown below. To speed up things, the graphics were ripped from the original game, this allowed development to continue whilst the graphics were redrawn. The below screenshots…
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Tooling up
The Collected Works From eBay, I bought the Collected Works. This was a 1988 compilation of all the Ultimate Play the Game games, except for Underwurlde, for some reason. The four games released under the US Gold banner were also not included, but rightly or wrongly, they were not regarded as Tim and Chris Stamper…
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Apptastic idea….
So it appears we’ve now gone full circle, the app coding phenomenon for the smart phones and tablets now perfectly mimics what happened 30 years ago I guess in 2013, we are at the 90’s point in the gaming world. The crossover point between hobbyist/small studios to the mega game studios. I couldn’t help but…
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Finishing off the emulator
All of the Windows Phone 7 devices, only one had a hardware keyboard. The software keyboard was not practical. The screen was too small to include the game and control buttons together. I certainly didn’t want to taint the games by putting button overlays on top of the game, no matter how transparent they were.…