Just had a talk with [thUg] 3 hours ago and he already had his hands on tileset number one. He should be done with fixing and cleaning by this weekend. We are all excited!

As soon as the sound fx are comming in and the clouds were fixed as well, we will present an updated video of World 1.

Hello dear Giana-Fans!

First of all, let us tell you that the project is not abandoned and we won’t abandon it ;)

Everyone has already read the story about the graphics artist issues severall times already and you boys and girls are probably already sick about it – which would be pretty much understandable. A pixelgraphics artist from France named [thUg] who was also active in the Amiga demoscene offered his help, which we will glady accept – things should move on soon.

So this was the status about Giana’s Retun itself… now time for something new…

We got hands on a very talented (but unfortunatly not free) graphics artist who is currently drawing sprites and tiles for a new Sci-Fi Jump’n’Shoot. We are taking essences from “Hard’n’Heavy”, “Metal Slug” and “Turrican” and mixing it up into a brandnew game, based upon the Giana’s Return engine. Of course we could have got that graphics guy also for our main project, but the background of this story is a bit more difficult and would probably fill a few pages to explain.

We have the main sprite “Little Bastard” ready and animated, white a nice and proper gun in his hands. Within the next three to four weeks, we should have everything ready to start. The game itself will be less complex than Giana’s Return as we want to head towards “Hard’n’Heavy” which was dealt as “The Great Giana Sisters II”.

We don’t have a music artist for this, as Operator is still busy with the Giana’s Return music and sound FX. Our organizer is already having some artists in mind, who could provide proper chipmusic. This time it might not be “exclusive” tracks as for Giana’s Return, but be sure that the music will rock the house – or better said “chip” the house.

Kudos!
Your’s Giana’s Return Team

PS: We answered most of the people who offered help, but most of them didn’t reply, did you guys checked your spambox folder?

… there is time for some more news.

Thanks for the few guys who were trying to help with graphics, unfortunatly some of them did not reply to an answer, but maybe that’s comming (affected people, make sure you check your spam folder too).

We now have three potential pixel artists who want to help out, let’s see if the detail talk will scare them off or not.

Hopefully everything is moving on soon…

Dear visitors,

We want to keep it short – we need a Pixel Graphics Artist for Giana’s Return to get things finished. We can not pay anything, we can only offer you fame (aka credits) and donations shares (if there will be any). Please keep in mind that this project is HOBBY & FUN for the team, nevertheless we want to see it in good condition and fully finished the next few weeks.

Your job would be:

* Cleaning Pixel Graphics
* Drawing minor objects
* Adjusting GFX Sets to match a theme
* Able to deal with color limitations

As the engine is already done, you wont have too much freedom (but a bit).

If you want to help, please write an email to the project organizer at shahzad(DOT)sahaib(AT)web(DOT)de – preferable with some sample work, or a link with sample work.

Thanks a lot!

The organizer and the coder were catching a flu the past week. Both are almost recovered, but now the coder has gone on vacation for around one month.

In the meantime he fixed minor problems, basically details.

Something else which just came to our attention is this:

Seems someone gained the permission for an official Giana’s Sister PC sequel,
which brings up the question if the word of the trademark owner is still vaild
and we can still release Giana’s Return. In worst case, we just rename the 2 girls
and change the titlescreen musix remix.

Anyone got more info on that sequel/remake?

Here are the names which were suggested by our visitors so far… 

Zoieka
Harvey
Apollo
Brawnchik
Birdy
Mr. Dirb
Growlpick

Squirll

Cheesy

Rooster
Chicky-Bit

Hulsbeck

Henrique Eaglesias

Early Bird

Kentucky Fritz

Uhm… well… :) There are some interesting word games like “Henrique Eaglesias” but probably not the name we are looking for…

Thanks to the suggestions to: magnus, Michael, Tommy Bergström, Insidious, Bluntman and Klaus.

Screenshots of World 4 (Lava themed) with pre-final graphics.

We are in need of a name for our first boss, which you can see above in the bottom right corner. Any ideas? Let us know!

well… we are currenty working heavily on world number 4, which is also know by “lava world” at the moment. there were improvements in the tileset again. we now have a prefinal lava world, with one level converted. if everything goes straight, we have a new video next week.

A funny thing happened yesterday… we found one out of 10 bonus holes, which actually did not have an exit defined. If we would imagine the game has gone public with that bug, urghs :) We could have probably renamed the game to “Stuck with Diamonds” then ;)