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Diary of a Game

Mega lo Mania 2
Mega lo Mania 2
20/11/2023

Amiga Power magazine intended to publish a 9 or 10 part 'Diary of a Game' to document the progress of Sensible Software's sequel Mega lo Mania II.Amiga Power magazine intended to publish a 9 or 10 part 'Diary of a Game' to document the progress of Sensible Software's sequel Mega lo Mania II. Unfortunately, the game was cancelled near the beginning of 1992 after only a few months, and there were only 3 diary entries in total published in the magazine.

Menace
Menace
08/11/2020

Dave Jones, programmer of Menace and Blood Money for Psygnosis, created a 7-part series in Amiga Format discussing how he wrote the game Menace.Dave Jones, programmer of Menace and Blood Money for Psygnosis, created a 7-part series in Amiga Format discussing how he wrote the game Menace. Dave also gave away some of the source code to the game on the coverdisk each month. The series ran from issue 7 (February 1990) to issue 13 (August 1990).

Paradroid 90
Paradroid 90
03/11/2020

Andrew Braybrook's diary featured in Amiga Action as he converts his C64 classic Paradroid to the Amiga.Follow Andrew Braybrook's 3-part diary-of-a-game that was featured in Amiga Action magazine, as he converts his C64 classic Paradroid to the Amiga.

The Secret of Game Graphics
The Secret of Game Graphics
13/10/2023

Amiga games often generate graphics that are saturated with colour and animate fluidly. But how do these graphics get from DPaint to the game's screen?Amiga games often generate graphics that are saturated with colour and animate fluidly. But how do these graphics get from DPaint to the game's screen? Trenton Webb grilled Vivid Image until he got some straight answers.

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