Sega Genesis Gets its First New Game in Two Decades
Speaking with the BBC, developer Matt Phillips explained how the whole thing came to fruition. In the beginning, Tanglewood wasn't even really Tanglewood -- it was a challenge that Phillips took on after getting bored with modern-day game development. The game itself was funded through Kickstarter last year. "I like to work with the restrictions of the system itself rather than making it for the modern PC on a modern engine. I've done a lot of that in my lifestime, and I'm getting a bit bored of that, so..." insert one bright-eyed, bushy-tailed fox.
Phillips built his own kit to development game that runs on a Mega CD, with the entire rig powered by a Windows 95 computer. "One of the biggest problems I face is none of this old equipment works very well anymore, I've had more repairs on this thing can I can count," said Phillips. "I started [development by] writing simple games like Pong and Tetris just to get my head around how to code something this old and it eventually came together into a small platform game."
The developer says he contacted a company in China to build the game's cartridges and a "guy in Canada" to build its printed circuit board. "It's got a very small memory, its got a very small ROM. I have to squeeze everything in with compression techniques and some very hard optimisation."
Tanglewood is currently only available for the Genesis, but Phillips apparently has plans to bring it to the PC, and to keep developing games for the Genesis itself. "It has taken a bit of my sanity with it," he joked. "But I'm pretty sure I'm gonna do this all over again next time."
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CentPosted:
That's pretty insane, I never thought this would get another game but that is awesome lol. Even the graphics look like how they used to.
DragonPosted:
This is crazy. I would have never thought that after 20 years this console would get another game. So nostalgic.
TomPosted:
wow, i love hows it the old graphics too. Great to see such an old console, but amazing, get a game after 20 years.
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