Mr Beanbag is, thankfully, alive and well. I just fixed a couple of small bugs this morning that I've been meaning to fix for ages. I also wrote the Oasis Zone boss over the weekend - the first boss in the game so far.

I do apologise for the slow progress recently! Unfortunately I have had other things on my mind.

Do you still need a new publisher?

Just send an e-mail to vidworx[at]gmx.de

Greetings! :o)

One wonders if Mr. Beanbag! is still alive...? I sure hope so.

So its already dead?

Very nice game.Come on guys support the Mr.Beanbag! release now!!!,more messages please...

great job, is it near finished ?
we can wait to see this game finished

What happened this game? :-(

I hope the game will be finished some day. I am really looking forward to it but unfortunatley there haven?t been any more news for a long time. Are there problems?

Waiting to view full version...
Greetings from Italy!

Hi, Fantastic work so far would love to see a release soon, I will definately be buying a copy when it comes out.

Hello,

Waiting so long now.
Any progress or is the project canceled?.
What about a new status-update?

excellent!

It's nice

Any news so far?

I really like the demos! any more news on when it will be released? Tell, tell us do!

Any news? :-(

Is this ever going to get finished??? (Hi to all at EAB ;)

A great platformer! It's amazing you got it working on a stock A1200. When will it be released?

we waiting ...... ;-)

nice greetings from Germany

We are running Czech Amiga Portal at amiga.probers.info.
Our readers are always informed about news around this game, so you can add Czech republic to countries where HE is spotted :) We are looking forward fo release in THIS year! :)

Kind regards

Chain & Prober, Czech Amiga Portal admins

Thanks for releasing the Halloween demo, it was a great little treat. We're eagerly awaiting the release of the full game. Do you know who you will be distributing it through yet?

So where is the Linux port? :p

ungi: yep! nearly there! we've not updated the page as much as we should, sorry!
mystic: here! :o)

still in development?

hehehe GREAT work!!

I just played the demo, Mr. Beanbag is a nice game! I gottta hamberger! I was starving. This is a happy game, keep up the nice work!

OH GOD! I am dying here!! Release the game already! * falls on the ground producing the most powerfulist child-tantrum ever imaginable * I want it! I want it! I want it! I want it! I want it! * eyes tearing like waterfall, mouth opened wide like japanese animation * GAAAH! Want it! RELEASE IT ALREADY! SO I CAN BUY IT!

Any chance of Copper in some of the backgrounds? :)

Mr Beanbag appears on the edge magazine in an article about retro game programming (at least in the spanish version, I supose also on english one)

Yeah, Mr.Beanbag is a very nice Oldschoolish game, I really enjoyed what I've seen yet. Keep up the good work until the final!

Very nice look! AGA amiga's rules.
From Russia with love! =)

Just seen demo - nice cool game ;)
Not only problems to run from gfxcard modes as written, but also from AGA VGA modes.
There is very simple bugfix to it, but i didn't find here author's emails to say'em about fix =) Would be nice if these cool guys could contact me at lvd.mhm[at]gmail.com =))

...nice work guys!!! just played the demo with UAE & loved it!!!

Qulaity game! Nice work :)

I couldn't agree more with what Rebel said ;)
I really do like the game but my only annoyance is it can be a little frantic making it hard to focus on the screen. Maybe not as much scrolling each time you move until you are nearer the edge the screen. :)

Keep up the great work though :)

Hey there. Wow, I'm extremely impressed with the quality of this game, it feels very polished and is lots of fun to play. It's great to see some people still making quality games for my Amiga, I never gave up hope, I'm glad others haven't either.

I found out about the game through Retro Gamer magazine, and searched for it straight away. I enjoyed the demo a lot, and love the look of the screenshots. How many people are or have been working on this game? And when it is released, will it be a commercial release, licenceware, shareware or public domain? I for one would gladly pay for a new Amiga game of such quality. Also, I was wondering if you had considered a CD version of the game, perhaps something to work on after the disk version has been released, since it runs on any 2MB AGA Amiga, a CD32 version would be great, as a lot of Amiga users are now playing their CD32s more than the desktops because of the convenience and the fact that there are many Amiga game compilations coming out for the CD32. A little animated intro and perhaps a CD quality remix of each of the ingame tunes on the CD would be nice, and perhaps support for the CD32 control pad, maybe using the shoulder buttons to look to the left and right (as up and down are already supported). This could also be a feature for the A1200/4000 version of you wanted, since a lot of A1200/4000 owners also have CD32 pads.

I'm sorry for rambling, I'm just very excited about this game, and think it deserves a lot more attention. Let me know if you need any help with anything, I'm not bad at drawing/touching up sprites and background blocks, I've made a couple of Backbone/SEUCK games myself, and have some great ideas for games.

Thanks for a great game, I can't wait to play the full version!

Very nice Game. It looks like the "Sonic - The Hedgehoc" Games on the good old Sega.
Is it the same Engine? Some grafix looks equal the sonic game.
I loved Sonic and i will love Mr. Beanbag!!!!

I'm so looking forward to the final version!
Thank you!

Hi!

There seems to be no email adress around here, so I try writing into the guestbook ;-)

Do you want the game to be a freeware full version?
If not, I?d like to produce a professional CD Cover, Inlay and CD and publish the game in Europe.

If you?re interested please write an email to:

vidworx [at] gmx.de

Thanks.
See you later,
Patrick of Vidworx Media

looks cool - do it!

Looks cool !!!

RTG + AHI version?

I tried your demo and I think the water effects in the background were really great. I think the game overall is fantastic.My 9Yr old brother joey keep's begging me to play his ps2 so he can have ago of my amiga LoL.

It looks really fun! Ill have to try the demo!

The Playable Demo is just great! Hope, there will also be an .adf file finally - fast enough Amiga isn't available for me. But on UAE it works fine! Greets!

Keep up the great work... very impressive...

I hope it will be finished soon, it looks really like nice&playable game for our rusty miggys! Keep teh Faith!

Looks awesome (^o^)

Take that, pharmy spammers! *wields delete button*

Fahed: I reckon so. It's being published by RetroSoft (Alten8) so it's up to them really. And then it's up to Tricky. But I felt I had to reply anyway :)

Everyone else: Thanks for your kind words! Apart from the ones trying to push pillmedicone(tm)

ps. More updates soon. We've done the Clouds and Antarctic zones recently, and we're working on the caves!

Are you going to add an editor to this game I hope :D?

Hi there!
Nice to see that the Amiga is alive! Your new game Mr. Beanbag is l@@king very good, I hope you will finish the final version soon :) Hope to take a look on our website (www.amigajoker.de) too! Greeting from Germany, Dennis aka Brork

I am making a game myself with group of teams, this is going to be awesome trying this game out. Are you going to provide an ADF download too when it is completed?

Message to Amy:

Hi, I've spoken to Paul @ Alten8 and he's put me onto you. Firstly, I'm the editor of RETRO:BYTES Magazine (www.retro-bytes.co.uk) and we're hoping to launch very soon. Until then, the designer and I will work on RETRO:BYTES Lite; this will give people a taster of the bigger mag. 'Lite' will be out soon, and we want to write up a small preview of Mr Beanbag, so please get in touch with me regarding its current state - my email address is shaun@retro-bytes.co.uk

Also, would it be possible if we have a demo of the game for our download area please? This will be available as soon as the full web site is finished.

Many thanks!

This is a really great retro game, but with a fast modern pace and suitable for all levels of interest. I am going to be hooked! Fantastic!

Hi.

I just played the demo and I love the game. Hope it will be finished i November. Keep up the good work. :-)

Good to see someone is having a go at producing new Amiga games. Glad I'm not on my own! This has potential, very slickly presented like Amiga games of old, however could you please sort out the scrolling when you jump? It's really annoying because it follows you and you have no idea what you will land on. Other than that though, I look forward to seeing the finished version. Good luck!

Hi Graham, so you make Amiga games too? We'd be interested to know about that!

You're not the first person to mention the scrolling. It's supposed to allow you to see where you're going on your way up as well as down, but I'll look into ways to improve on that.

Yep, I've got a platform game coming out through Cronosoft soon, called Diamond Kingdoms. Don't know when it's coming out yet though. It's nowhere near as polished as your game though! I've uploaded a demo version to Aminet that should appear in the next 24 hours or so (hope you don't mind the plug :-)
I'm currently programming a shoot-em-up.

Very nice game, I have played the demo and I think it will be very addictive ;). The scroll it's a bit too fast for me. Amiga is perfect for games like this one. Greets!

...old fashioned but nice looking game, I am going to try the demo now. :) Keep up the good work!

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