Doug from 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast has just reached a great milestone in 2019, 50 excellent Amiga Episodes, You can visit his great content on Youtube
He also has other social links you may be interested in:
Look forward to posting a few more teasers over in the new year :) Daniel's work I have seen and maybe many haven't, he is a super talented coder and I just had to say yes when he asked for some graphic assets. We are officially working on this game early in the new year.
Amiga "Brilliance II" published by Digital Creations in 1994 for the Commodore Amiga Computer. In 2020 I plan on creating new videos using Brilliance II on the Amiga Computer.
2019 in Review The year is nearly closing and I want to say a sincere heartfelt thankyou to all my Patreons. https://www.patreon.com/KevinSaunders While I am working on an official animation using the Amiga for the end of year celebrations I hope you enjoy the quick review of this very busy but amazingly fun year with the Amiga. I am very proud to be part of "ReshootR" and "Rygar" release for 2019 and can't wait to bring out not only "Reshoot Proxima II" and "Iridium" but a few other surprises including some "BrillianceII" Tutorials. Before the end of this year I plan to post a few exclusive pics that have I have been working on, some experimental work for a future ECS shooter as well as other projects and insights to my plan/schedule for 2020. As always I'd love to hear from you. AMIGA Forever :)
It's really nice to give a little back to all the people who I appreciate in the Amiga Community. I have a small patreon site and a few very generous people are helping my may Amiga dream come true.
Simone Bevilacqua, deserves more patreon's with his wonderful selection of games. He caught my attention some time ago but was with his most recent game Blastaway being developed for the AmigaOS that persuaded me to help support him.
Bjorn's Tiled Map Editor is open source but without it. Reshoot, Rygar, Iridium and other games would not be possible. I made a recent suggestion to his fabulous Map Editor and the next day the idea was implemented, how awesome is that. I use his Editor everyday.
I have known Richard for a few years now and have loved working with him on his Reshoot and ReshootR games. It is an absolute pleasure and we are currently working hard on our next AAA Amiga game, more info coming soon.
I have followed Michael Parent's youtube and Patreon site and after today's twitch stream was so impressed that I needed to support this very passionate and professional man. He works closely with Corey Annis and make a great team.
Iridium - creating animated buildings and some Amiga info Creating animations can be challenging. This animation was created using Photoshop to first design the Building then using Apple "Motion" Software (similar to After Effects) to animated the glowing effects. Below you can see on the left the layers. These are then animated (fade on/off, move, bloom/glow effects used)
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I have a few future posted coming up soon related to Amiga development and look forward to posting them very soon.
Recently I needed to knock back an opportunity to create some Amiga Demo scene work. I don't think I could dedicated enough time for extra work at this stage.
It is a very poor Amiga conversion, this is what I would consider a better rework (see above). The Sharp X68000 version I have used to create this concept. Could possibly reuse Graeme's Rygar engine, especially if you wanted parallax effects (8 colour background) and 16 foreground.
The player is a hardware sprite (16 colours), Foreground and background combined (no parallax)
I personally would prefer more colour over parallax in this instance unless we can get both :)
"Heartland" Amiga Port (Concept only) 32 colours (plus copper background) for ECS and AGA. I have more info on my Patreon site. Don't worry you don't have to sign up... just have to wait a few days for public version, but I'm happy with this concept. :)
More details on my Patreon (don't panic more info will become available in a few days, no need to be a Patreon) :)
Bjorn is my first Patreon I have supported and honoured to support software that helps us Amigans develop more games :)
As most of you know, Im busy working on Iridium game, just finished ReshootR and other (Amiga) projects in the background continue.If it wasn't for other great software such as Tiled Map Editor https://www.mapeditor.org/my game development would be alot harder or possibly non existent.
I have now become a Patreon of this open source developer (small monthly donation), nice to give back to other developers.What made me decide to do this besides feeling guilty using free software i use all the time and the professional interaction from Bjorn the coder.
My message to him on his Discord channel was ..... "hello bjorn/everyone.I have a quick question.Is there any way of selecting a layer by clicking on a tile? In photoshop for example you can hold down command key (mac) and it goes the the layer.The layer I want to get to quickly is (Overlay Layer) but currently in (Structure Layer).When you have lots of layers it can be time consuming turning other layers on and off.Still and awesome Editor, just trying to increase my workflow, hope you all are well :smiley: happy mapping." ..... Not only did I get a response but also got the idea implemented, how cool is that.
I look forward to showing more of how I use this tool for Amiga development.
All the maps in Rygar for example have been created using this software.
Ok back to developing, thank you for everyones support.
If you would like to show support please visit his Patreon site
This describes some of the colour palette setup. https://www.patreon.com/posts/reshoot-behind-27347269 Next post for ReshootR will describe the player ship and how it was setup.
New Animation to be shown at the next Brisbane Amiga Gathering. Spins 360 Degrees/colour cycling/100 frames, 32 colours. Created in Brilliance and Lightwave.
Recently joining the AMIGA Brisbane Retro Group, it was decided to have a big banner we can pin up at all our social gatherings. I was happy to be part of the process and here is a work in progress design using Lightwave 3D. I have attached the 3D objects that I have used incase you would like to see or use them.
While it's not the final image hopefully should be pretty close.
P.S. Donations text at bottom will have real names, from all the people who have donated towards the printing of the big banner.
For my Patrons I have also included the 3D Lightwave file as a thankyou for supporting me.
Wouldn't it be great if we had a custom editor to be able to not only create nice copper effects for Amiga games or demos but to be able to export either code, image.
I'm taking the time to socialise with other Amigans, not something I actually have done recently or in the past, certainly not locally. For the event I decided to create a quick Amigan style colour cycle animation. Using Brilliance II on the Vanilla A1200. For more info please visit my Patreon site below (no paywall for this one). I have decided that all posts from now on should be open at some point but for people who support me get a few days early preview insight.
For more info on my Public posting please visit here
APRIL update!
Just got back from family holiday in Sri Lanka (thankfully we are all safe from the recent bombing)
Quick update, this is what I'm working on right now:
- New Amiga Game (untitled), similar to Galaga (game released before 2020)
- AmigaKit graphic requests (PCMCIA)
- Iridium Development
- New AmigaX (need name?) Hardware/Software (Classic)
- Rygar help (possibly new levels, at the moment asking my Patrons if they would like me to spend some times focusing on this)
Above is a teaser image for possibly untitled game (4 colour Hardware sprite/split copper colouring horizontally) game concepts posted soon (possibly today) on my Patron site. In discussions with coder on this OCS game.
Hope you all are well and enjoying your Amiga's :)
The last 35 days of our Kickstarter ends tomorrow. Still lots to do but an exciting time ahead. With the Kickstarter so close to a Nintendo Switch Port.
We still have plans for a future Amiga Port, either AmigaOS or Vampire Amigas.
It's always interesting to know if word gets out sometimes :)
Firstly, it's wonderful seeing the Amiga move forward in so many ways. New games, new hardware for both classics and NG machines. As a proud owner of an Amiga 1200 and an X5000 I enjoy seeing new developments, software, hardware, even emulation.
We 3 Amigans (Bastich, Akira and Invent) are currently working away on a new game called IRIDIUM. If you have ever played or heard of Uridium on the Amiga then hopefully you will really enjoy this news. Our game is a frantic new 2D shoot 'em up with huge levels and truly massive enemy ships. Mixing game styles from Uridium, Xenon 2 and Nemesis. We have a few interesting twists along the way.
While our focus is for the PC platform first (demo on Kickstarter), our second goal is the Nintendo Switch (other consoles possible but at this stage far too expensive). The good news that we are very keen to get this game on the Amiga platform and are having conversations open and private as I write this. At this stage it's either Vampire based Amigas and/or AmigaOS. While I can't personally promise anything, having 3 Amigans on this game certainly helps.
A little history of me:
First Amiga - A500, then A1200 then A4000. Most used software on platform was Brilliance 2, DirectoryOpus and Lightwave.
Just finished working on the graphics for the Amiga game "ReshootR" with Richard Löwenstein, game will be available very very soon :) We both worked on Reshoot also. He has a patreon site here: https://www.patreon.com/loewenstein Richard is an amazing guy to work with if you ever have that chance.
I have worked on Rygar, initially with Sandruzzo but more recently supplied all the maps using "Tiled Map Editor"for McGeezer, who is doing an amazing arcade conversion. For more info on Rygar please follow this thread http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=93545
- Amiga Inc
- Deluxe Galaga Edgar Vigdal (IOS)
- Warblade MKII
- Dots Adventures
- Im sure I have missed a lot more... :)
Future Amiga Work: (my blog has all the info but please ask if you need more info on any project)
- Release Thrust game (Bastich)
- Rework "Alex Zirconstar" (Patrick Nevian)
- Vampire games
- Mig n Ziggy (A1000 compatible)
- oOthers....
- ProXima3 (AGA shootemup) is my biggest Amiga AGA priority but only once Iridium is complete.
Future other:
- Panic in Robot City (Amstrad/Amiga)
- The Last UFO (Amstrad/Amiga)
- Various ports of Amstrad games (eg Covenant, Movie, Mutant Monty)
I do post more unique content on my own Amiga Patreon site (that only recently launched), more behind the scenes. I'll post my work I did with Amiga Inc for example (soon)
Patreon Site: https://www.patreon.com/KevinSaunders
If you got this far, thank you for taking the time reading this message and even if you don't pledge know that I will be around working away in the amiga scene as I enjoy and love it so much.
We are very excited to let you all know we have reached 100%+ of our Kickstarter for IRIDIUM :)
Now we have our official Stretch Goals and successfully reach our first one, everyone who pledges £5 or more gets two posters added.
James, Akira and myself are very keen to get to the Nintendo Switch and yes we are very open to an Amiga Port if we raise enough money. Please share if you can.
You may notice the £3750 Extra Level (Acidic Ocean), I'm pretty excited about this level as it plays on some clever depth tricks (aliens coming out of the Ocean).
If you have not played our demo Please give it a try.
Richard is getting ever closer to completing ReshootR, taken from his Facebook is a teaser video.
He is also creating a series of Youtube videos of the making of
It's been a busy few months recently and we are very proud to finally have our Kickstarter for "Iridium" LIVE
We have lots of great plans for this game and with your help can make it even better, we just need to get the word out, any help would be really appreciated.
Links to various social media sites:
The Kickstarter
Mig n Ziggy hasn't been forgotten, a copper trick update showing what the C64 palette and Amiga copper tricks would look like.
If you have followed my blog about this game you will see that I have focused purely on the Commodore C64 colour palette.
I'm curious the idea of blending the C64 and Amiga hardware into an in-between state. 1:1 pixel ratio and copper effects. The copper effects by the way (for the moment) a gradient transitions only using the C64 colours.
This game, while on hold till ProXima3 is completed, I have thought about possibly using the Redpill engine if I can't find a coder. The platform I would like this to be available on is the Amiga 1000 (the very first Amiga machine), so I need to be mindful of memory usage.
The focus for the next 10 days or so is on Iridium Kickstarter, beginning in February. Our team (Bastich and Akira) have posted info of the game in one of the most popular and most positive Amiga forums out there.
Link: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=79838
I'll post some other insider teasers for my Patreons in the next posting :) In particular the large ships that have destructible elements and I little more about the team and of course some teaser Amiga graphics too. The Digital Book is one of the perks of the fundraiser.
I'm working away on a Poster for RESHOOT R free for my Patreons, and early design is here (Square format) but will be transformed to A2 (420mm x 594mm)
The AmigaOne X5000 Bootscreen, could possibly make the source files available so people can see how it was created. Also could post other designs that got scrapped in favour of this one :)
This version (GIF) reduced from 1024x768 to 512x384
Before the Amiga X5000 came out, I created this design concept showing various designs. One day might investigate what it would take to create a custom LED panel for the X5000.
Graeme Cowie has been working very hard on Rygar for the Amiga Platform.
He has not only created a great arcade conversion but an enhanced Amiga version using copper effects for the sky and water area. I helped with some testing of the colour cycling for the lava area. I'm very happy to say that my time spend on making those maps have not been wasted :) Amazing work.
