I've been playing their latest release: Circus Convoy for the Atari 2600. Be sure to follow @audacitygames and check out their website: adgm.us/portal/index.h…
Let's do some Q&A with living legends!
The band is back together and your title Circus Convoy is a wonderful welcome-back party.
My first question for @kitchengarry & @PitfallCreator: has Audacity Games been something you guys have been talking about for a while?
Circus Convoy hits that sweet-spot where it feels like it could be an Activision game that fell through a time warp.
Was it like riding a bike to get it to look and play so authentically Activision or did you have to go back to school, so to speak? @PitfallCreator/@kitchengarry?
One thing I'm curious about is, like you said, the tools you used in the 80s are not used today. You had to start from scratch in a sense. What was the toughest hurdle you had to deal in designing the tools/game?
This is one for a generation of indie devs who idolize you: sometimes developers struggle with giving up ideas in games.
Was any idea for Circus Convoy abandoned? And how do you know when an idea is not going to work? When's the time to give it up? @kitchengarry/@PitfallCreator
I have to ask this for personal curiosity before I move on to asking Casey's Gold: do you two still play new games? And if so, what's some recent stuff you've enjoyed? What consoles do you have?
The next release is Casey's Gold by @dankitchen, and you've both teased a third today..
Is it safe to assume Audacity Games is here to stay? And would you guys consider publishing the neo-retro works of other creators? @kitchengarry/@PitfallCreator
One last question for you guys and then I'm going to go cry because the Warriors are playing like crap..
What is "gameplay" to you? What is the single most important element any game must have in order to be fun?
Audacity Games debut title, Circus Convoy, is out now and it's really fun. Not just fun for an Atari game, but FUN in a vacuum, on its own merit. It's for-sale now! adgm.us/portal/pricing…
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The Legends Forum with @kitchengarry & @PitfallCreator will be at 6PM PDT and have its own thread, but I'm leading off the review/gameplay thread with..
Circus Convoy is, at heart, a caper adventure. The idea is to pillage a series of semi-trucks carrying a circus. There's TONS of items that you have to figure out, almost like an action-based point 'n clicker.
As soon as I start, the puppy is like "oh hey, toe!" and bit, and a deaf puppy can't hear you scream in agony.
Ugh.. love it.
Anyway, items are scattered everywhere. Some are just laying around. Some you have to solve a puzzle to unlock OR perform a simple task..
I shall review and rank every Treehouse of Horror.
TREEHOUSE OF HORROR I
BAD DREAM HOUSE
Rating: GREAT
Best Line: "He said he mentioned it 5 or 6 times."
And, it's ACTUALLY scary! The warning at the start of the episode isn't bullshit. This put Simpsons Halloween on the map.
TREEHOUSE OF HORROR I
HUNGRY ARE THE DAMNED
Rating: MASTERPIECE
Best Line: "On this cable system we receive over one million channels from the furthest reaches of the galaxy. " "Do you have HBO?" "No, that would cost extra."
What do aliens have to do with Halloween? :P
TREEHOUSE OF HORROR I
THE RAVEN
Rating: MASTERPIECE
Best Line: (Technically from the wraparound) "Hey, that's a school book!" "Don't worry, Bart. You won't learn anything."
Some people hate this. I'm such a huge Poe fan that I actually like this a lot. Debate away.
Nolan Bushnell, an amazing human being, one of the most progressive men over the last 40 years in the Silicon Valley, was completely railroaded by Game Developers Conference and Brianna Wu.
In the process, they made a mockery of #MeToo and Time's Up. She hasn't
Nobody had spoken up against Nolan.
And not one "accusation" against Nolan stretched past the 1970s. That fact alone should have been enough to show he's grown up and not the same young man he was in the 70s.
The women of Atari have come out unanimously in his defense.
His former employees, female and male, have testified to his character. They have nothing to gain in 2018 to defend him. Hell, it could be to their benefit to stoke the fires of accusation.
But they didn't. Many women called him the best boss they ever had.