Happy Holidays to everyone, “RetroStyle Games” team wishes you productive and pleasing 2012 year!

We have updated our portfolio with more than 180 recent images of 8 different categories:

Additionally we have changed our gallery engine and now:
- it’s easier to maintain everything from our side
- there is full-screen mode so you can view images at higher resolution with all the details
- there is better SEO and per-image description
- overall usability of our gallery should be improved

We have restructured categories a bit, so now there are:

Game Interfaces – GUI, HUD, Windows, Buttons, Overall UI Style

3D Modeling – Next-Gen Characters, Low-poly Modeling, Texturing

Game Backgrounds – Painterly, Illustrative Stages and Game Style

Concepts – Characters, Environment and Game Style Researches

Icons – 2D and 3D Game Tiles, Chips, Objects, Cursors and more

Vector / Flash Artwork – Icons, Costumes, Game Elements, Backgrounds, Flash Animation

Game Sprites – Pre-Rendered 2D / 3D Elements with Post-Processing or Over-paint

CG Animation – 3D Animation, Video Presentation and Flash or Hand-drawn Animation

Don’t hesitate to contact us in case of possible cooperation!

Sneak peek preview at Dress-Up Pups casual game – prepare for the high fashion!

Dress-Up Pups is a Match-3 game that puts you in charge of a luxury fashion agency catering to the most extravagant dog-lovers. Each customer has a unique vision for their pet’s ultimate outfit; help them bring their dreams to life through both classic and chain-style match-3 game play, plus jigsaw puzzle mini-games!

Dress-Up Pups will feature 190 levels of match-3 fun. On the way to your design success you will meet 10 amazing characters and will create 21 unique outfits for their dogs.

Actually, we started to work on that project (code name Dogs Fashion) more than a year ago inside of our own team. But after 6-8 months of slow development Dogs Fashion was frozen.

Luckily our constant cooperation with Roman Budzowski from Anawiki Games ended up with Dogs Fashion’s resurrection! So meet new and shiny Dress-Up Pups.
We put in it all the skills we learned during creation of The Perfect Tree and polished a lot of ideas and art that was already created.

Dress-Up Pups was initially scheduled to be released on Oct 12th 2010, but since we want to give it a bit of extra polish the release has been moved by a week. It will be available for both PC Windows and Mac OSX… and hopefully after a while on Linux. Stay tuned.

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

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.

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.

Some miscellaneous icons I have done for FDMPro:

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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…

The story of the video is based on the comics by band’s drummer and connected with song’s lyrics. Main hero is hacker which has exchanged his real life with computer world. And now he is starting to see various kinds of illusions.

We have discussed first stages of creation process with band’s leader more than 1.5 year ago and first models and animations were created then. After that I had a break and back to the video only in a half year.
That’s why and also because it was really hard to do everything from concepts, modeling and rigging to animation, rendering and direction by myself – video can look a bit outdated in some places.

But the main thing I have set oneself as an object – was bringing everything I have done to the final, understandable and complete look.
It was really great experience for me.

Hello to all. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We have slightly redesigned RetroStyleGames.com
Header is more functional now. Small navigation buttons were changed to bigger one.
“Artwork” and “Developers blog” category were added.

Blog is still under construction, but we hope to make it fully functional soon.
Developers thoughts, in-progress screens, free sprites and more will be published there.