Everyone who wants to know whats going on with the jump’n run game “Giana’s Return” might be interested in this information, which has just been posted on the Giana’s Return homepage.

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Dear Giana Sisters enthusiasts,

Working on a sequel of such a famous game as “The Great Giana Sisters” is not an easy task. We have heared many comments up to now and most of you might still remember the public Versions of Giana’s Return v0.91 for GP32, Dreamcast and Windows (32-Bit). Most people are happy to see the progress, some just feel ashamed that we are touching an alltime classic and trying to put it in a new shape. As the team itself is very addicted to those kind of games, let us assure you, that we do our best to keep the faith of the original.

The current progress is in a stage, where everything is fully playable but needs a lot of graphical adjusting and level retouching. Our betatester Mulle, a kind and helping hand from Germany, has already put a lot of time into the game, by testing details. The game wont be out tomorrow, neither in a month – but we will not abandon anything.

The storyline is complete and currently beeing added to the engine, same applies for the illustrated story. The tile adjusting will require some more time, so far 4 tilesets are adjusted, this makes 3 sets left.

The rough final should be ready by end of this quarter, we will use the second quarter of 2008 to iron out and fix details – of course this timeline is rough and only applies if nothing bad happens.

To raise your mood and get the time of waiting a bit reduced, here are the links to the three videos, posted on youtube.

World 1 in action: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hu3oV1WUEQY
World 2 in action: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tuxvTYtLXPo
World 3 in action: http://youtube.com/watch?v=UgM7uDJNDt0

A new video of the lava world should be up in the next two weeks. For everyone who was in the dark about the “release date”, now you have more background information.

Greetings
Yours Giana’s Return Team

http://www.gianas-return.de/

Achim has updated his “catch the smily” game. It now features a minigame where you need to find a specific smily in time.

http://forum.gp2x.de/viewtopic.php?t=5039

Sqdef is a tower defense game. The goal is to prevent enemies from getting from one side of the map to the other, by placing towers along their way.

Changes:

-> improved game balance (including dynamic pricing for the more special items)
-> new graphics
-> special towers that boost the damage of every tower in range
-> fast-forward speed increased from 3x to 5x
-> bonus 60-wave mode after winning all three medals on a map
-> detailed score break-down at the end of every game
-> on-GP2X map editor, with everything you need to make new levels!
-> easily manageable map packs
-> you can download more map packs from the Sqdef site, as well as make your own and share them with us!
-> clear and concise readme.txt that explains everything there is to know about Sqdef

http://artraid.com/alex/

Achim is steadily improving his game Muepp Muepp for GP2x. Goal is to catch as many smilies with the touchpen, as possible. The game can be also controlled by the regular joypad, which makes this game work on both currently available GP2x’s, the GP2x-F100 and the GP2x-F200.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,37,2431

You are Punk-Man and need to escape from a prison without beeing catched.

4pac’s litte game is inspired by the Game & Watch game “Escape” originally released in 1981. To our knowledge it’s his first GP2x game, so give him a hand and leave feedback in the linked thread below, where you can also find the download.

http://forum.gp2x.de/viewtopic.php?t=5048

The team behind Giana’s Return has released a new teaser video, this one showing an underground / cave level.

Check out Youtube and leave your comments there or at the official Giana’s Return page at http://www.gianas-return.de

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgM7uDJNDt0

Dave C. has released all necessary information for his GP2x N-Gage QD D-Pad modification.

Here is what he wrote:

Here are all of the CAD files for the N-gage QD D-pad mod that I did. It includes all gerber and exellon files for PCB manufacture as well as 3D CAD models for the pad mod itself. Do what you want with these. Mod them for your own use, reproduce and sell them and make a fortune, they are now public domain 🙂

I realize that not everyone can use these but if you can have fun.

http://www.geocities.com/dcancilier@sbcglobal.net/GP2Xdpadmod.zip

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=40021

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

Among the systems on which you can play those games are Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, PSP, PS2, SymbianOS/EPOC and many more…

Release notes:

All,

I would REALLY appreciate any feedback on this new preview 2 release of the upcoming 0.11.0 release for the GP2X.

This release fully supports all GP2X’s (F100 and F200 with touchscreens) however I am not able to extensively test these releases as I do not have a GP2X.

You can download the release from the forum feedback thread here.

This should support all new games added in the 0.11.0 release including Elvira 1 & 2, Lure of the Temptress and Waxworks (Amiga version).

With the exception of a possible bugfix Preview 3 release this is pretty much what will end up as the official 0.11.0 release.

http://scummvm.distant-earth.com/scummvm/2008/01/0110-preview-2-released.html

Achim has updated his “catch the smilies” touchscreen game for the GP2x-F200.

The change in this release is major for all F100 users, as this game now plays on all GP2x models, regardless of with or without touchscreen.

http://forum.gp2x.de/viewtopic.php?t=5014

This is a remake of the classic game “Abu Simbel Profanation” with enhanced graphics.

Changes:

-Quit Allegro lib and use SDL lib. F200 compatibility and more speed.
-Better gfx for 320*240 res.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,35,1868