Giana's Return, an unofficial "The Great Giana Sisters" sequel!

The smell of AROS!

Gianas-Return Team — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:36:50 +0000

Frank and Yannick were working together to get an AROS port of Giana’s Return done. They succeeded and everything runs smooth. As we will be releasing an update of Giana’s Return in the next few weeks, we would like to keep the AROS port back and release it once the new changes are implemented.

Converting Levels to x240 has started! (done)

Gianas-Return Team — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:40:43 +0000

As the fake 16:9 view in Giana’s Return looks odd and even tinier on real 16:9 devices, we have decided to enhance the ingame levels from a 320 x 200 pixel display to 320 x 240 pixel.

24.08.2010 – Bonus Levels are hand converted!
25.08.2010 – Boss Levels are hand converted!
25.08.2010 - World 1 Levels are hand converted!
25.08.2010 - World 2 Levels are hand converted!
25.08.2010 - World 3 Levels are hand converted!
26.08.2010 - World 4 Levels are hand converted!
26.08.2010 - World 5 Levels are hand converted!
27.08.2010 - World 6 Levels are hand converted!
27.08.2010 - World 7 Levels are hand converted!

First donations :)

Gianas-Return Team — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:35:27 +0000

Thanks to sbock, stoni and relei for the first donations

Final wishes? Let us know!

Gianas-Return Team — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:13:50 +0000

It’s time to bring this project to an ultimate end and the version numbering already indicates that the game is almost in the state we want to have it.

What are your final wishes for the game?

Giana’s Return v0.999 (Windows, Amiga OS, MorphOS, NetBSD, Pandora)

Gianas-Return Team — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:39:06 +0000

The team has managed to update Giana’s Return! Not all ports are up to date yet, but the rest should follow.

Updated are: Windows and Pandora builds.

New are the initial ports for Amiga OS4, MorphOS, and NetBSD (x86 & PPC). Hails go to Frank Wille.

Changelog for v0.999:

General changes:
- Extra credit screen to mention that we use Open-Source projects such as SDL, SDL_Mixer, libmodplug and zlib!
- Only tracked music remains in the game, the “OGG” solution has been dropped.
- Code is plain C now and should be even easier to port
- Plenty of “endian” fixes
- Various small fixes
- Modified “timings”
Computer Versions only:
- Experimental OGL support, to be activated with “-ogl” or “-ogl -hd” on desktop versions only. USE AT OWN RISK AND GIVE US FEEDBACK!

Enjoy the release! Join us on Facebook! Donate a few bucks if you want to buy us a coffee! Or just give feedback

PS: ALSO CHECK OUT OUR NEW GAME SQRXZ, IT’S OUT TOO

New version ahead?

Gianas-Return Team — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:57:16 +0000

Sometime in July, most versions of Giana’s Return will see an update. There been many things going on with the source code and also a few new ports will be uncovered. Stay tuned!

Symbian AHOI!

Gianas-Return Team — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:05:25 +0000

S60v3 phone users might be happy to see a port soon! We have a first release client working! “Anotherguest” will be improving a few things and then a public release shouldn’t be too far away.

Giana learns to walk on MorphOS!

Gianas-Return Team — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:00:39 +0000

Giana has already made her first steps on MorphOS, but there is still time required to shape everything. Things are moving again!

Giana’s Return v0.997 – Pandora

Gianas-Return Team — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:08:52 +0000

IS OUT! Please check the download section!

Thanks to Pickle for his porting efforts!

Giana for Pandora, soon!

Gianas-Return Team — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:37:41 +0000

Even if the Pandora is not out for the public yet, Pickle has a Dev-Pandora! Within the next few days we will release Giana’s Return for Pandora!

Let’s play Giana’s Return

Mulle — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:49:39 +0000

We’ve found some YouTube videos uploaded by xxxRanxxxKun. It contains a complete “Let’s Play” video of Giana’s Return with german comments while playing. You can check them out here

Giana’s Return goes Facebook

Mulle — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:45:05 +0000

Now you can be a Giana’s Return fan on Facebook. Visit the page

Sqrxz – Status!

Gianas-Return Team — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:14:40 +0000

We are heavily working on SQRXZ! The game is fully playable, minor features and little bit of bugfixing is left.

Brief information: Jump’n'Run, Action, Puzzle, Remake, not the real follow up project – just something to refresh our minds.

We will be releasing for most major systems such as GP2x, Wiz, GP32, Dreamcast, Dingoo Linux (Dingux), Windows, Wii, PSP and possibly other systems. As we do have permission from the copyright holder and creator, we shouldn’t be running into any problems releasing for the systems mentioned above.

Prepare for the possibly hardest Jump’N'Run puzzler you have every played! If you can’t handle this game, you better go and play golf

(11. 05. 2010) Updates can be get via http://www.sqrxz.de now

v0.998 Windows-Beta – More feedback required?!

Gianas-Return Team — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:05:30 +0000

We haven’t found any serious problems with v0.998 Windows (beta) on our own yet, but we still need you to provide more feedback. So far we only received one feedback via the comments in an older post.

Please slide down a bit, download the v0.998 beta for Windows and check if you find any bugs. Even if nothing is VISIBLE for you, this version contains changes in the playback engine for music and sound effects. We can’t go further with development with just one positive comment as it would be too unsure if there has been an oversight.

AmigaOS and MorphOS requests!

Gianas-Return Team — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:58:53 +0000

We got an offer from Frank W. to port Giana’s Return to AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS 1.x, 2.x and probably other AmigaOS based systems which we gladly accepted. He has not started the work yet, as we try to do the last tweaks and fixes to the main core. Once this is done the above mentioned systems should be served too.

On a side note we want to remind everyone again, that this project is free of charge and done in the team’s spare time. Please understand that certain things might take a lot longer than you would expect from a professional team. The whole team is busy with real life, job, university and their own families.

Giana’s Return v0.998 (BETA) – Windows

Gianas-Return Team — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:25:36 +0000

Here is an beta version of Giana’s Return v0.998 for Windows: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0PLUGOEI – You will require the full v0.997 installation, the zip only contains an updated exe.

The main and only change is that we do use modplug for playback instead of mikmod. Please report any bugs, if we don’t hear from you guys out there… we will consider this beta a v0.998 final and go on with the next minor steps.

Other ports will be updated as soon as we know that our main version (read the Windows version) is fine.

Discover some secrets

Mulle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:09:33 +0000

Our organizer is very busy at the moment, therefore no news since 2 weeks. Now I am on keyboard to discover some secrets on Giana’s Return. You know the ARMIN cheat? Here we have one, too

See comments…

Did you know that…

Gianas-Return Team — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:09:17 +0000

…following us on Twitter might provide you with secrets about Giana’s Return you always wanted to know?

Giana’s Return goes Symbian OS?

Gianas-Return Team — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:52:49 +0000

We got mail from “anotherguest” who is famous for several ports to the Symbian OS platform. He is very interested in porting our little game, so should we go for it?

Tweet! Tweet!

Gianas-Return Team — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:56:17 +0000

http://www.twitter.com/gianasreturn/