Players: 1 Genre: Action We live in strange times. On the one hand we have a bizarre cultural fetish for 8-bit video game aesthetics, while on the other we often deride the actual 8-bit titles themselves (unless they are one of the safe, untouchable few.) Read More …
Coo-eee I’m back! Well, that was a nice break. I’ve been away on holiday in Florida for the last couple of weeks, which is why things have been a bit quiet around here. Things will get back up to speed shortly. In the meantime, if Read More …
The folks over at 1Morecastle have shut up shop, meaning there’s no one to administer Review a Bad Game day this year. Ooh eck! But while there are still bad games that need reviewing, we might as well continue to review them, yes? Let’s take Read More …
Genre: Adventure Players: 1 Its always best to start how you mean to go on isn’t it? How fitting, then, that the first GX4000 game we examine is one of the old CPC ports that dominated the GX4000’s library. Originally Released in 1988, Barbarian Read More …
Ooh! The Ashes are here! The Ashes are here! and they’re going on…RIGHT NOW. To celebrate, lets have a look at the cricket output of unarguably the best cricket game developer of all time, Brian Lara Cricket creators Audiogenic. Graham Gooch’s Test Cricket Released in Read More …
From Betamax through to Laserdisc, the history of consumer electronics is littered with some pretty spectacular failures. In the video game world, however, there are few failures as impressive as Amstrad’s first (and only) venture into the console hardware business: the Amstrad Gx4000. Released in Read More …
Blimey! Has it really been a month since i last updated? Oops. I’ve been busy. Well, not for the last couple of weeks or so, but up until then I was busy! You see, as I was still hiding from the realities of having to Read More …
I like Science, I like video games. Rarely, however, do I like the two together – and that’s certainly true of today’s “video games are harmful” story: Call of Duty will make you mentally ill. According to the news story: Researchers found that people who regularly played Read More …
So the other day I took delivery of something quite exiting: An Amstrad GX4000 games console. If you’re thinking “Amstrad?” and “Games Console?” don’t feel too bad: It lasted on the market for less than a year before being discontinued. It was home to just Read More …
(Part 5) I don’t know about you but if there’s one thing I hate, it’s being ill. After all, aside from feeling like crap, you don’t have either the strength or the inclination to carry on playing around with your funky little side projects…like mucking Read More …
Well, in case you hadn’t noticed, there’s been next to no activity around here recently. Boo, There has been a good reason for that though: My wife and I have been horrendously ill for the last few weeks. Seriously. It feels like, between us, we’ve Read More …
Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions, where nobody goes, stands an ancient castle. Deep within this dank and uninviting place, lives Berk, overworked servant of “the thing upstairs” But that’s nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath the trap door, for there is Read More …
(For Fatnick makes a game Part 4, click here) Hello everyone, Since my last update a lot of stuff has changed! Having completed my test track, I’ve decided to go in more of an arcade-driven direction for the actual game. So let’s make a game! Read More …
One of the most exciting things about having an extensive MAME library ( on my unjailbroken iPhone as well. HA!) is that it allows you to access to all kinds of weird and wonderful titles that would be incredibly difficult to find in the physical Read More …
I may about 20 years late to the party, but I thought I’d quickly share the Easter Eggs that developer Hertz included in their Sega Megadrive port of the original Outrun. All of the easter eggs are unlocked just before the beginning of the third Read More …
Crumbs! Quite a lot has happened since I popped up here with part 3. SO let’s get stuck in. Having got something playable up and running, I decided that I needed to sort the car model out once and for all. There’s no point in Read More …
(Part 2) (Skip the boring stuff and go straight to the playable work in progress? click here then!) Blimey, I’ve done quite a bit since my last update. Hurrah! For someone who spends much of their professional life moaning at people for placing printer’s marks Read More …
(Part 1) So last time on Fatnick Makes a Game we looked at how to fire up Unity, create a cube and some spheres, then sit and stare at the screen wondering why they won’t spontaneously form into a usable car. This time we’re going Read More …
So, making good on my New Years Resolution, yesterday was the first day I tried to MAKE A GAME. But how, exactly, do you go about making a game if your only major prior experience of game design is Epic’s classic DOS Adventure title ZZT? Read More …