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Stoker – New video footage of the platform game
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23.04.2022
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"Stoker" gained quite some attention while still in an earlier state of development. Rhys Clatworthy provided recent video footage, presenting new fireballs for our dragon, dust when landing as well as a new, faster scrolling routine. Enjoy! |
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In development: new C64 games at Protovision
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26.06.2018
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We’re keeping things trasnsparent – we’d like to announce a few new C64 games, which are currently in development:
Interview with Sarah: http://www.indieretronews.com/2018/06/briley-witch-chronicles-inside-story.html
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Protovision’s growing membership base
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24.06.2018
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Galencia physical edition coming soon
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10.11.2017
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Everything is ready, but we are still waiting for the boxes to arrive, before we can make Galencia available to you. We expect them to arrive in two weeks. |
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Order Sam’s Journey TODAY!
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01.10.2017
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Sam will NOT be shipped right away, though. We are currently finalizing the game and are collecting funds to produce all Sams needed. The download versions of Sam will be made available at the same time as the physical versions ship out. Everyone who orders a physical release of Sam also receives the digital versions. Please understand that due to the high amount of orders, shipping out all Sams will take weeks. Those who pre-registered Sam will be treated with priority and will receive an additional email with information on how to complete the order. |
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Sam’s Journey: Auction dropped In favor of Early Ordering!
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12.09.2017
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 After carefully considering all feedback that we received about the planned Sam’s Journey auction, we have decided to dismiss the auction idea and instead allow for payed orders of the upcoming C64 game Sam’s Journey right away. That means: Sam can be ordered starting in October and will be shipped in December! Also on the 1st of October, the full contents of the Sam box package will be revealed. Thank you to all who have offered to send us their payment in advance! You are all our heroes as this helps us very much to produce enough Sams so we can deliver quickly to everyone in December. At the time of delivery, also the download version of Sam will be made available (all physical editions of Sam include also the digital distribution). Here you are with the revised timeline for the release of Sam’s Journey:
Please bear in mind that shipment will take a while with the exceptional high number of orders. |
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October is the month of the Sam Auction!
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09.09.2017
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UPDATE 12.09.2017 Auction dropped In favor of Early Ordering! Multiple Sam’s Journey enthusiasts have contacted us and asked if it were possible to get a Sam with a low serial number. Actually, we did not intend to attach serial numbers to Sam at all, but now we will give the first 64 Sams a serial number and auction them to the highest bidders. This way, everyone has the same chances for obtaining a Sam with a low serial number – or you can stay out of it entirely and buy a regular Sam without any serial number.
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Sam’s Journey Produktion
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25.07.2017
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Wir sind völlig begeistert von der ersten Charge an Sam Boxen, die uns frisch aus dem
Die Boxen sind noch besser geworden als wir ohnehin schon dachten. Die Oberfläche ist Die Boxen (und viele andere Dinge der finalen Sam Distribution) sind Handarbeit.
Und das bedeutet für uns, das nun der nächste Produktionsschritt beginnt: Am Ende wird jedes einzelne Exemplar von Sam’s Journey ein mit Liebe und Handarbeit |
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Sam’s Journey Production Update
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We are thrilled now that we have received the first load of Sam boxes fresh from the factory!
The boxes turned out even better than we hoped. The surface is quite durable The boxes (and a lot of other things in the final distribution of Sam) are hand made.
And that means the next step in the production is beginning for us now: In the end, every piece of Sam’s Journey will be a unique labour of love. |
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New game in development: Wormhole
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01.07.2017
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You’re an agent on a super secret, super dangerous and world-depending-on-it-important mission. You have to shoot and run your way through the 3 game worlds and rescue the professor, the only person in the multiverse who can save the earth. |
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News around Sam
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Chester Kollschen, the coder of Sam’s Journey, was interviewed in February by Commodore Plus. Sam is, by the way, still happily jumping, striking and throwing around items. We had issues with the first cardboard boxes printed (the printing house had zoomed our input files), but they are resolved now. We will soon disclose pictures of the box and some of the feelies.
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8 Bit Civilizations in the press
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8 Bit Civilizations has raised a few eyebrows all around the world – even in mainstream media. Here is a selection of news entries: boingboing.net/2017/02/01/civilization-ported-to-8-bit-c.html Fabian Hertel, the maker of 8-Bit Civilizations, was interviewed in the January issue of the Kilobyte Magazine.
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Demoversion of 8 Bit Civilizations released
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28.01.2017
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We have opened up an „In Devlopment“ site for this project where you can get a fully playable demo version of the game at no cost. Leech it now and provide feedback.
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Progress of Sam’s Journey
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10.01.2017
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Sam’s Journey has reached an important milestone: Knights of Bytes have created 60 level segments that will make up Sam’s world, and populated them all with enemies and items now. A total of 4332 (!) objects have been placed into the maps. While the levels are now going to be reviewed by testers, Knights of Bytes are moving on to the next todo on the list: boss fights! On the production front, the bonus items to be included into Sam boxes have been decided upon and custom box inlays are currently being designed to „host“ all items adequately. |
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Sneak Peak: Sam’s Editions
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07.10.2016
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Knights of Bytes and Protovision are happy to announce three editions of Sam’s Journey that will be available through the Protovision shop when the time has come: – Boxed Disk Edition 45.00 Euros Sam’s Journey will be the first game to feature our new fully printed cardboard boxes. Within the box you’ll find a colored manual (almost the same size as the box), an equally sized world map and further goodies to be revealed later on. The only difference between the Disk and Cart versions will be that the cartridge version saves automatically while in the disk version saving is triggered through a menu. A new version of the C64 emulator Vice is currently being worked on that will support GMod2 (That’s the cartridge Sam uses) so emulator users will be able to play the cartridge version.
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Protovision auf der Gamescom
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16.09.2016
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Zusammen mit unseren Freunden bei Out of Order Softworks haben wir einen Messestand auf der Gamescom belegt – mit einem riesigen C64-Einschaltbildschirm (gedruckt – aber mit blinkendem Cursor!) und natürlich mit der Möglichkeit, das kommende Sam’s Journey zu spielen!
Zum Beispiel kam ein freundlicher Herr an unseren Stand, spielte ein paar unserer Spiele und packte dann eine eigene C64-Diskette aus mit der Bitte, einmal schauen zu dürfen, was darauf ist. Wir haben ein komplettes von ihm selbst geschriebenes C64-Spiel darauf gefunden, dass er 1989 erstellt hatte! Wir halten Euch auf dem Laufenden, wenn das Spiel herauskommt… es ist ein 2 Spieler Split-Screen Pac-Man-Spiel mit Level Editor. Auf der Gamescom haben wir auch ein paar Produktupdates herausgebracht (mehr dazu unten). Bilder von Protovision und Out Of Order Softworks auf der Gamescom auf unserer Facebook-Seite. |
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Protovision on Gamescom
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Together with our friends in Out of Order Softworks, we shared a booth at Gamescom – featuring a huge printed C64 screen with a blinking cursor and of course a possibility to play our games – including the upcoming Sam’s Journey! Such a trade fair is an inexplicable experience. Magical things happen there.
We will keep you informed about the release of this game… it’s a two player split screen Pac Man game with level editor. We also pre-released a couple of fine product updates on Gamescom – more on that below. Pictures of Protovision at Gamescom on our Facebook page.
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Protovision and Out of Order join forces
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13.01.2014
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Protovision alone is not chaotic and omnipotent enough – therefore we are that we can officially announce the start of our cooperation with Out of Order Softworks! Out of Order is renowned in Germany for their hilarious adventure series "Leisure Suit Leo" and the long lasting event series "Out of Orderia". Now if you haven’t heard of them before, shame on you, because it does seem as if you didn’t check out all the links in our link section with the due respect! Tsk, tsk… OK, to make a long story short: we have a lot of stuff to work on together and we’re immensely looking forward to a fruitful coop with many new releases for our Commodore from Protovision and Out of Order Softworks!
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Protovision und Out of Order legen zusammen
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Protovision allein ist noch nicht chaotisch und übermächtig genug – deswegen sind wir froh, offiziell verkünden zu können, dass wir eine Kooperation mit niemand Geringerem als Out of Order Softworks starten! Out of Order ist durch die humorgespickte Adventure-Serie „Leisure Suit Leo“ und die langjährige Partyreihe „Out of Orderia“ natürlich jedermann ein Begriff. Und wer sie noch nicht kennt, bekommt jetzt einen Rüffel, weil er offensichtlich nicht alle Links unserer Linkrubrik mit gebührendem Respekt durchgeklickt hat. So geht das ja nun nicht. Also, um es kurz zu machen: Wir haben so einiges vor und freuen uns auf viele gemeinsame Releases für den geliebten Commodore von Protovision und Out of Order Softworks!
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Pac It: A continuous flow of small updates
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29.09.2013
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Aaaaalso in the last weeks and months there was good progress around Pac It! I am proud especially of the turn disk screen or rather its size. The loader/depacker system stays in memory all the time and should therefore be small – but as Pac It will presumably need two disk sides, it also requires a screen to kindly ask the user to turn his disk. Common programmers might have the practical idea of using the ROM charset and just present a dull text, but no, I was too hardheaded on that one to do that! Now I have my own charset, one sprite, two tiny tables with flash colours and the text/code for the screen in only $02c0 bytes. That simply asks for bragging around. But the best thing is: it works and it is complete! And that makes the whole I/O system complete. Wonderful. Further updates:
OK. I’m currently working on the core of the game – mainly to get enough disk space out and to optimize loading times, but also to get to terms with all the slime left a little tiny bit undone before. For example I have worked on the score system today and tweaked around with when which player gets what score bonus and when does he receive an extra life for it. Or rather the team, because Pac It is a team game and the players share a common life pool. |
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We are over the moon! Let’s say hello to our new members: programmers 
The time has come: 
As the release is slowly approaching, we are now accepting preregistrations for Sam’s Journey 
* After a rather long odyssee the intro music is finally final! Matching the screen to the intro and vice versa was a hell of a task. Done!