And here is another cool fan-art and just nice artwork done by us – Sarah Kerrigan from Starcraft.

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RetroStyle Games would like to share some Prince of Persia fan-art created by one of our great artists.

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We are happy to release so-needed update to our first game – Mars Miner. It fixes pretty common bug connected with Zip.dll library we were using – which was stopping a lot of players from trying our game, specially on newer OS like Windows 7 or Windows XP 64 bit.
Also, it adds a couple of smaller balance and misc changes.

More information about Mars Miner game:
http://retrostylegames.com/index.php?action=prod_miner

Download Mars Miner 1.2 for PC:
http://www.retrostylegames.com/mars_miner/MarsMinerSetup.exe

History of Mars Miner updates:
1.2.0:
- Zip.dll startup error should be fixed now – download New version if you had that error
- Game Protection mechanism was changed – all license owners should contact us to get new keys
- Difficulty balance changes and other small fixes

1.1.0:
- New sound tracks by Mad-Tek and Takomo
- Difficulty balance changes, it should be easier and more fun to play now
- Other small fixes

1.0.8
- Reworked sound engine
- Additional music themes
- Story mode Awards and small balance changes
- Survival is more dynamical now
- Smaller game size, but more content

1.0.6:
- Random hanging in full-screen mode. Score computation’s are faster now in Survival mode

We are happy to release sequel to our own Bad Pocket Santa game. Polished and improved it really stands out from Pocket God and Pocket Devil analogs.

More information about game on it’s own page: http://retrostylegames.com/index.php?action=pocket-elves
Positive customer reviews are pouring in.

And here is bonus Pocket Elves video of farting Santa and vomiting elves:

Have fun!

Fdream – Football Dream, online football manager

Our friends from FDMPro.com asked to write a couple of words about their football simulator.

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I have done new version of video for FDMPro.com online football manager. It’s more dynamic and twice shorter (that was needed to save some time for whole presentation).
We didn’t win at SeedCamp this time, but still it was great experience for our team.

We are preparing renovated version of FDMpro.com for Seedcamp‘s final and I’m working over new stadium graphics.

Here are first tests (GIF animation):

The hardest part was to slice and prepare stadium model for rendering into layers. Also, we need to find some way to automate rendering process using scripts.

A little more than week ago I with my friends from FDMPro.com have taken part in Seedcamp.

It was really nice, filled with great experience two days in our native Kiev town. We had a chance to meet a lot of interesting teams from all over the world and masters of their own business, which were our mentors for that period.
Here is video presentation of FDream online football manager I have done for Seedcamp. We had really tight deadline, but I like final result:

BTW, we have won it (in Ukraine it was a selection part) and our team should show polished FDream project again in September in London.

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Hi everyone.

At last I have some free time to prepare and upload my animation online.
It’s CG music video for song “He is Hacker” of Ukrainian music band “Bottle Green”. Leader of the band is the friend of mine so I created this animation almost for free in my spare time.

You can download Medium-resolution DivX video here:

http://retrostylegames.com/temp/clip/Hacker_clip_fin_en.avi

Almost everything was done by me during last year and rendered in December. Final cut with some post-fx was done in January of 2008 with help of my friend Vadim.

Update: my video was mentioned at 3DTotal.com which is really popular 3D resource.

Some additional details and Low-resolution YouTube variant of the video are under cut…

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I’m a big fan of Tyson Ibele’s artworks. Just look at his site – there are plenty of really inspiring animations!

A week ago I have suddenly noticed a new tutorial on his site.

It’s – Animation workshop #1: roboBall

Tutorial consist of four parts: Animation, Shading, Rendering and Compositing. But the most interesting is the first part. I was stunned when I saw his straight workflow and his animating speed! Especially compared to pose-to-pose technique I am trying to use in my animations.
It was really great experience watching how Tyson is animating his robo. If you have missed this guy – hurry up to his site.