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

Interview about Giana’s Return

Mulle — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:43:57 +0000

Kojote, our project organizer, got interviewed by Retro Hunter about Giana’s Return at the demoparty Revision 2011 (at 10:00).

Have fun :)

Giana’s Return v1.001 (MotoMAGX)

Gianas-Return Team — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:01:20 +0000

Thanks to Sergei, also known as Exl, we have a port of Giana’s Return for MotoMAGX devices. Thanks Sergei!

Giana’s Return v1.001 (Symbian OS UIQ3)

Gianas-Return Team — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:08:45 +0000

Thanks to Lars Persson we do have a port for Symbian phones ready. As of now only for UIQ3 as it’s dead from a commercial point of view. A Series 60 port is NOT possible at this time for reasons already mentiond a couple of times. Head over to the download section!

Disclose hidden things

Mulle — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:26:24 +0000

It’s time to uncover few hidden features for Giana’s Return. Help us getting 500 fans and more and watch out for secrets being uncovered.

Giana’s Return fans on Facebook!

Giana’s Return v1.0 – GFX Fix

Gianas-Return Team — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:34:30 +0000

As reported previously some versions of Giana’s Return suffer from a transparency bug. It’s now fixed for the following systems: Windows, Ubuntu, Caanoo, GP2x, Wiz.

You can download the full package from our download page. Alternate just download the small file tiles.zip and replace the unpacked file with data/tiles.zda

The fixed version for the other systems will come a little bit later.

Update 01.02.2011: Dreamcast version fixed

Update 02.02.2011: Amiga OS4, AROS, MorphOS, NetBSD x86, NetBSD PPC versions are now fixed, too.

Giana’s Return v1.0 – Transparency Bug

Gianas-Return Team — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:00:27 +0000

Some users reported a transparency bug. The issue has been tracked down and we will provide an updated graphics data file soon. A complete package fix will follow for v1.01.

Windows Version – False Positive

Gianas-Return Team — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:09:00 +0000

Some people obviously have a problem with their Anti-Virus claiming that the Giana’s Return executable is having a virus. The exe changes the screen resolution and checks for connected devices such as joypads or joysticks. This might be seen as critical action and makes the one or other Antivirus moan. The majority of Antivirus-Solutions acts correct and does not find anything.

Giana’s Return v1.0 (Dreamcast)

Gianas-Return Team — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:40:48 +0000

Indiket has updated the Dreamcast port of Giana’s Return! We hope the few Dreamcast users left out there will like the game!

On a sidenote: Indiket has birthday today! Happy Birthday! :)

Giana’s Return v1.0 (Ubuntu 64bit)

Gianas-Return Team — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:05:03 +0000

Giana’s Return goes 64bit on Ubuntu. It’s packed together with the 32bit release.

Giana’s Return v1.0 (Windows 32bit, Ubuntu 32bit)

Gianas-Return Team — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:29:30 +0000

Windows and Ubuntu ports are now officially up to date :) Enjoy!

Giana’s Return v1.0 (GP2x, Wiz, Caanoo, Pandora, Amiga OS4, AROS, MorphOS, NetBSD)

Gianas-Return Team — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:22:04 +0000

It was about time to get v1.0 out, unfortunately a bit later than expected, but well… here we go! :)

Updated ports: GP2x, Wiz, Pandora, Amiga OS4, MorphOS, NetBSD
New initial ports: Caanoo, AROS

Other ports should be updated erm… well… soon :)

Changes:

- Several palette fixes for all tilesets
- Various other smaller cosmetic graphics fixes
- Four new ingame baddies
- The levels are now 40 pixels higher and “fullscreen” on 320×240 devices
- Modified trainer (hidden)
- Modified two levels in the last world to make them easier
- Fixed minor slipping bug when a bridge is crumbling and Giana stands stil
- Added configuration menu:
* Music volume control
* SFX volume control
* Key configuration (where keyboard available)
* Joypad/Joystick configuration (where external joypad/joystick available)

* Please report any bugs you spot! It will help us to improve the game!
* Donations are welcome :)
* Join us on Facebook!

Where is v1.0?

Gianas-Return Team — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 05:39:24 +0000

Uhm… well… yes… soon :)

Bye, Bye, Twitter!

Gianas-Return Team — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:42:07 +0000

As almost no one of the team uses Twitter, we decided to deactivate the Giana’s Return Twitter Account – please either follow us via our homepage or Facebook.

Downloads disabled!

Gianas-Return Team — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:54:13 +0000

As we are (very) slowly preparing for the v1.0 release, the downloads of v0.999 are disabled!

v1.0 finalized, Ports in progress!

Gianas-Return Team — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:38:03 +0000

Giana’s Return v1.0 is now reality, but not yet in the wild. Our loyal and helpful porters are going to update their branches, so we can release the game for various systems at once.

Status Update (16-11-2010)

Gianas-Return Team — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:20:08 +0000

The beta test so far: Four minimalistic bugs, easy to fix.

Status Update (13-11-2010)

Gianas-Return Team — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:16:09 +0000

Finally the Joypad/Joystick configuration issues are history! Mulle will be on vacation from his office next week so we will have another run to discover bugs and other possible problems.

If everything goes straight, Giana’s Return v1.0 will be out within the next 4-6 weeks (or earlier).

Status Update (08-11-2010)

Gianas-Return Team — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:46:49 +0000

The blog isn’t updated that often recently, but the team is still alive and still working on v1.0. The ingame configuration option keeps Thor busy, Mulle is retesting the whole game and Kojote is fixing minor things here and there. As soon as there is something interesting, we will update the blog again.

v1.0 testing news

Gianas-Return Team — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:10:37 +0000

We are going to add options to v1.0 – so the public release will take another bit of time. You will be able to have in-game volume controls plus button/key configuration. After all v1.0 should be looking good :)

Testing of v1.0 in progress!

Gianas-Return Team — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:46:36 +0000

With the recent modifications to the levels and the addition of four new ingame baddies plus the palette fixing for the ingame graphics, we have to test the whole game again. This might take a while, but should get the game finally to v1.0. Two levels in the last world which were critizized to be unfair and too hard, got a minor change to make them easier.