Why? Because it keeps showing me stuff like this…
If that game looks oddly familiar, it should. It was made for the TIGSource Demake Competition, which is all about taking a game and “demaking” it for an earlier platform. Thus, Silent Hill 2 for the PS2 becomes Soundless Mountain II for the NES…
Portal for the PC becomes SUPER 3D PORTALS 6 for the Atari 2600…
And Homeworld for the PC becomes HouseGlobe, for 256 color VGA…
HouseGlobe in particular is very impressive. It’s got silk-smooth two-player multiplayer over the internet or a LAN, and despite a small tech tree and number of units supports several different strategies of play. It’s a great little 2D RTS, and the guys who made it pumped it out…in ten days.
That’s why I hate the internet. It keeps showing me how much I suck. At some point, you know, I thought I’d become a developer who could make pretty cool stuff pretty quickly. But that somehow has never happened. Frankly I wonder why I’m still employed.
(EDIT: The Demake competition was hosted at TIGSource, not Retro Remakes. Oops.)