I've been noticing this lately. Spain has excellent 3D animators and videogame programmers. On the "The Incredibles" DVD, the Director's commentary track has Brad Bird saying that whenever they had a scene that was very difficult, they'd drop it to "the spaniards" which was a team of spanish animators that excelled at creating the illusion of weight. The scene that has Mr. Incredible lifting a giant head statue was done by them and it's not easy to animate the illusion of weight on a weightless medium (I think they also did the one with the exploding plane). Pyro Studos is from Spain as well and recently I found out the children's cartoon "Pocoyo" was also spanish made instead of japanese, which is what I thought at first when hearing the name.

Good luck to you guys on your endeavours and hope you do well.

All the best indie programmers are European, aren't they? :P

Wow man, this is better than a lot of commercial full priced titles out there.

Just going to make a quick review of the links:

Download link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YRLKOCTM

TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmMmESWCJag

Gameplay Footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0c8uDMW_r4


Thanks a lot!!!

Well surprise, surprise... an actual developer shows up.... never expected that when making this topic. Just out of curiosity how was it that you found this thread?

That being said, I look forward to your next project & thanks for making this one readily & freely available.

Very nice game, better than some of my purchase...

wow, looks very good from the gameplay footage. Downloading it now..

I have to second this observation. I just recently finished the English translation on another game from Spain, a Metroidvania called "Unepic". Really good animation and sound, lighting effects better than any I've seen in a 2D game, and strong RPG elements.

Yes, this is a shameless plug, but I think the guy needs all the publicity he can get.

Go to unepicgame.com and try a demo. Seriously.

I should note that this game is a MASSIVE resource hog & I have yet to find a way to turn shadows on & off, lower texture quality & the such. Keep that in mind when downloading.

If it doesn't remember that you can use x360ce to make your controller show up as an Xbox 360 controller.

This game surprisingly very fluid at platforming section. I like it.

Ah yes, but does it have infinite dragons?

Yes... because talking about a high budget/high cost commercial game in a topic about a low budget/free indie game has a lot of relevance.

I take it as a no.
Oh well, back to playing Dink Smallwood.

Congratulations on your game! Looks really nice.