´Animus XS´ by Furrtek

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I was surfing through the web as I´ve seen this on segafans.com:
New SMS Homebrew Game in Development: Animus XS

A new Homebrew game would be nice, but I don´t know if I like that short video or not.
What do you think about it?

[soera]

Well, if the video shows what the game is going to be like, its not going to be on my to pick up list. No real game play shown. Just a 20 second view of the robot walking.

[Transatlantic Foe]

Difficult to see whether it'll be little more than moving a cursor around the screen, or something closer to an SMS MechWarrior/Gundam/GunGriffon. The article mentions Space Harrier, which isn't really supported by the video.

[Deleted]

I´ve posted a comment below the vid and he replied:

Hello and thanks for you comment
I understand this isn't convincing as a game, since it's still nowhere near a game. As the title says, it's just some sort of show-off video for the render code of a particular sequence.
I mainly post news about it on the "animus xs" Facebook page, if you're interested. The development is very slow as it's only a side project, but I'd really like to end up making a fun and nicely polished game (as a cartridge). I hope to finish everything for the end of 2014.

Here is the Facebook page: Animus XS

So it´s early in development but there is a chance that the game will be finished someday. French forum members could visit the website of the game, as there is everything in french

[gallos_11]

I doubt the game will finally be released, as there's no update over a year now.

It seems Furrtek is currently working on another game called "Mantissa Experiment":
www.yaronet.com/posts.php?sl=172&s=158110&p=7

[Deleted]

Wow, sexy artwork! Sadly I don´t understand french, though.

[gallos_11]

I only understand a few french words, but google translator helps a lot.

A short summary of the discussion is that other members advise Furrtek to avoid using 3D letters on the cover and make it "more retro", similar with all other SMS games, without 3D effects. Also, Furrtek says that possibly will post a video of the game by the end of February, if everything goes fine.

Well, let's see!

[vingazole]

Actually it's the same game, he only changed the name (see post "./159").

furrtek also plans to add a chip into the cartridge to help with sprites animation ("to copy data from one place to another").

[gallos_11]

Oh, thank you vingazole for the info. I hadn't realized it's the same game.
I put the blame on google translator!

I hope we'll see the game finished soon!

[Centrale]

I'm glad it hasn't been abandoned. Very interesting to think it might have an additional chip in the cartridge, like some NES games had back in the day.