http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk A hobby coder software house whose aim is to develop fun, replayable games for all the family. Fri, 02 May 2008 17:38:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Goodness deary gracious!" is all I can say. Between recently becoming the owner of a Nintendo DS and getting continually distracted by a *coff* certain online game *coffWoWcoff*, I'd barely noticed that so many weeks had flown by... Marvellously, my favourite top-down arena shoot 'em up of all time has finally ... http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/news/enigmatic/ It's rare for you to hear any really juicy Firestorm news, seeing as I tend to include a lot of... um... "padding", shall we say, made up of tidbits you've probably seen and heard before on other sites. Happily, today is no exception! Or is it?... <insert dramatic tension here> To ... http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/news/whatever-next/ After this long without a news update, it's sort of hard to give a decent explanation why I've not posted sooner. There are lots of entirely uninteresting reasons, but none of them are actually important or terrible enough to have prevented me from typing a few words into Wordpress. So, ... http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/news/terrible/ Gyaack! I recently became aware that Internet Explorer (both 6 and 7) doesn't always display this page properly if you display it at certain widths. I'll try and fix that at some stage - it's probably just a hidden CSS quirk. In the meantime I can only re-emphasise my recommendation ... http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/news/auspicious/ Greetings again! Hope you had a good weekend. I've just updated the Mordor: Return to Dejenol progress log, but don't be having any hopes of seeing anything of spectacular interest - all it shows is that the editor coding is moving forwards, ever forwards, at rather hesitant intervals ;) With, ... http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/news/dark-art/ Flibble mah wibble! Or something like that. :grin: Time for some bloggy-posty goodness... The past few weeks have seen quite a torrent of quality freeware games released - aside from Ovine by Design's Exile II and Graham Goring's Wizball, you can now also get your hands on Trilby: The Art of ... http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/news/hopeless/ Today I finished converting the Millenipede and Poing! PC pages into the new site format, which is cool - it's been slow in happening (isn't eveything with Firestorm? :twisted: ) but better late than never. Meantime, the world waits in hushed anticipation for the release of the first new version of ... http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/news/hushed/ Like a fair few other people around the UK, I spent last night watching the tense finale of the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Considering that our England boys were absolutely crushed by South Africa the last time we played them, the end result was actually pretty fair and nothing to ... http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/news/crushed/ Erp. Seems like the site had some downtime yesterday - at least, I paid my daily visit and couldn't get in. I'll keep an eye on things and be ready to harass the hosting people if it happens again. :twisted: I'll (maybe) post some proper news tomorrow. Meantime I'm off to ... http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/news/69/ Ah yes! A tweak here and a tweak there - it's all coming together quite nicely now. Mordor: Return to Dejenol is inching forwards in fits and spurts. Revealed exclusively on its homepage last week, some new art (shown on the right) was created for the intro sequence, and the editor's ... http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/news/67/