Aye, how we aw daein then all ye faithful lovers of retro?

Ol’ EvilKris here, sittin on my bum waiting for the Famished demo to crawl its way through Steam’s authentication meat-grinder. In the meantime I’ve been keeping myself busy with a side mission — a quiet remake of the first level of The Last Ninja. Not that any of you would know that game as it was proper 80s magic on the grand C64, the 8-bit daddy of all home gaming computers. And it’s comin along lovely. Smooth as the first pint down your throat on a Friday night. Gets you thinking - Christ, if we’d had AI back then in the days of Flash we’d have been unstoppable. This stuff’s pure gold for mid-tier coders like this guy here, the equivalent of strapping on Fallout Power Armour for a dev. If you can imagine it, you can build.

Which brings me to my point, nostalgia. A lot of folk who were kiddies when they first played my games are probably knocking twenty or over now. Some of you'll be into dev yourself, feeling that all too familiar itch we all go through — the one that says "I want to remake the thing that made me fall in love with games in the first place."

So here’s me sayin it straight: if you fancy having a crack at remaking any of my old games in a modern engine, do it. Go mental. If you'e savvy enough to tear them apart with a decompiler, that tells me you've passed the first stage. Then you'll get your hands on the A3 script. Set your friendly AI pooch on to the mix to help you modernize the scripts available and see what you can do. You've got ma full permission to decompile, lift the assets, bend them to your will, and add some of your own flavour to the stwe. Release them if you want — just stick attribution where it belongs.

Only caveat: Insanity 1 & 2. I’m a bit precious about those. That's not a 'don't bother' but let it be known that any remake of those would need to be seriously fuckin spot on — proper polish, proper soul — before I’d even think aboot an official licence.

I’ll happily pop links to your work on here or over at the Discord.

So show us what you've got. If the project starts to shine, I'll happily dip in for a bit of consulation and vet tips.

Cheers!