Artikel von Februar, 2008

Screen tutorial

I’ve thrown together a video of the creation process behind a Dirty Split background. It shows every stage from a very raw sketch to the finished screen. And afterwards you’ll get to see and hear Baxter in motion for the first time. The music for this little showcase has been kindly provided by the talented Matthew Brown. Thanks Matt :o) Please bear in mind that everything you see is...

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Just adventure?

The friendly people over at justadventure.com have included Dirty Split in their list of independent adventure games. Thank you...

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Adventure archive

Woohoo! Dirty Split is now listed at http://www.adventure-archiv.com/ . The adventure archive is a very ambitious website that chronicles almost every adventure game ever released. You should give the site a glance as there are quite a few pearls of adventure game history to be found...

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It's like managing a horde of monkeys

I just stumbled over a blog post by Josh Roberts, multi-talented writer/producer/designer of the very excellent independent adventure game Rise of the Hidden Sun (the post is from November 2007… yeah, I’m a bit behind on my reading material). It’s a very ambitious freeware project that suffers a bit from an on-again, off-again progress. After a long hiatus, development on the...

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What's in a name?

Heh. I just read an old interview with Josh Agle, the artist whose paintings are the prime inspiration behind the Dirty Split style. Apparently the man has a dog named ‘Baxter’. So much like another scruffy old man the hero of my game bears the name of a dog. And both of their adventures will start in May, too. Go...

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