Vipp

Hey folks, Dave Vogt from the BOSS team has given an interview on the ARGCast podcast - It's episode 27 and you can find it here if you fancy a listen. http://www.retrozap.com/argcast-27-polybius-dave-vogt/ The IndieGOGO campaign is now at a whopping $395 so let's hope it makes the goal of $500. Once the game is out i'd love to set up a highscore challenge here at Atari Age? Maybe Dave and The Loon could put up a prise for the winner of the highest score? It's only a suggestion but i do love a good highscore challenge and as much as i love the crismas carol, there is now way im going to beat any of the guys entering that challenge, they must eat games for breakfast.

That video is much better mate! If you sit under the boss the lasers will block your movement which increases the difficulty so the slow lasers are part of the game being difficult. I can;t wait till payday to pledge and get playing! @ The loon - I do love the ship/craft you are flying in the game, the way it banks to the left and right is just awesome mate! Especially for an Atari game!

**EDIT - Hi folks, i just had a chat with the game's developer and he set the record straight, BOSS is 100% complete and ready to play at home! When you read/watch the infomation below keep this in mind, my mate Ian is mistaken when he announces the game in early development? Not sure where he got that info from? Enjoy the video and go pldege! Hi folks! - As you know, BOSS is now a full blown (But highly modest*) Indiegogo campaign - LudicrousDa3ve has been really generous with his time and has answered the million questions i've thrown at him which leads to me wanting to share this campaign with you guys. I asked a mate to play Boss because video footage is important, especially for men like me who enjoy knowing what thier cash is buying. So before i give you a link to watch that video let me precurser it with some tips. The guy making the video is a modern gamer playing a retro game, however he also attends most of the retro game conventiones here in the UK with myself, so he knows his way around an Atari, but he may not be nostolgic for the system and so Ian does mention the lasers being too slow... That may just be the way the game is supposed to be played, it looks/plays like a finished product to me. The video has 2 play thorughs, the second is the more energetic of the two, and when Ian finally hits a 5 gun BOSS you can hear the excitment in his voice (about 13mins into the video), which makes me think that maybe it was more about Ian's stratergy and not the game needing tweaks. Link to video - http://www.greatbitblog.com/lets-play-boss/ Link to Indiegogo campaign - https://igg.me/at/atariboss/x/6220888 If you go to his website you won't need to sign in to Youtube to watch the video.... Ian uses course language 2 times times. However, if you're like me and don't like to click links on the web, pop to youtube and search for 'Let's Play Boss - great bit blog' and you will find it. DISCLAIMER I don't work for the guys making this game, i haven't recieved anything now or in the furture for free (I will bebacking the game when payday hits), i'm a dedicated retro gamer who loves the community and after all the crap we all endured recently with suspicious kickstarters and all that crap i wanted to share somethig that's as simple as me... this is a project you can back for as little as $1 and the guys we help will be over the moon and in turn will make us more games. what's not to love. Thank you for reading this far and have a great day folks. * The reason i say this campaign is highly modest is because so many of our retro gaming developer peers have asked for tens of thousands of dollors to jump start a project, i'm not suggesting that kind of cash isn;t required or that it means anything suspicious is happening but what i do suggest is that we as a collective are highly selective of the projects we help and as a group we are efficient at shooting down a project when we see flaws. When i realised Dave and his mate are simply trying to raise funds to generate interest in their game and to help them actually dev more atari games for us, i figures that level of transparency deserves a few bucks and i get a game in return. I hope you feel the same way.

I can agree with Paul on this one, I like to think i have some input into what comes out of Georges mouth but he is a free agent. He means well though.

HAHA! Man you decided to make this awesome cart, you only have yourself to blame for the attention you are recieveing right now! lol. I would hate to think you would use all of your christmas time up working on this cart for us lot. But then i think about playing the dreadnaught factor here in the UK and i go back to wondering the halls repeating - L... T.... O..... Soon We'll Know... L ....T...... O...... whilst doctors get my meds ready. lol Thanks again for being so patient. Vippers.

I hate to be a broken record and i understand work is going well on the flash cart, any chance you might take a guess on release? 2 months/6 months/8 months plus? If you can't i understand, i would just love to have an idea on waiting times. :) Still can't wait for this to happen.

Listen, i understand it must be hard work inventing the LTO Flash but let me assure you it isn't nearly as painful as needing to play The Dreadnaght Factor on a PAL tv! If i go much longer i might end up in the loony bin drawing little green ships all over the walls!

Thank you for the link DZ, i left a message and will track that thread now. Also your game is awesome so when i signed up here it was a no brainer for me to make it my avatar haha.

Im super excited about this release, Definatly have cash waiting for one. This will get boring for you im sure but have you got a predicted date you might be shipping the first batch? also i'd also like moon patrol so if you do decide to throw early/first round buyers a deal i'm in!

Has anyone got a good place to go to find updates on the progress of the LTO Flash cart? the website appears to be a little light. Still excited about it's release.

I really can't wait to get the LTO Flash Cart, i have been wanting to play The Dreadnaught Facto for tooooo long and this 'Patched' version for my UK TV sounds like it will be a blast.

I think this will be my last score submission, it's been a great game to play. im playing on the free self emulated version but after i get to the end of the game once the difficulty seems to really change a lot. to explain what i mean, if you play the first level and collect all the candy, Carol goes slow... well that happens for me at the start of the first level on my second play through. i have a lot of repect for yo guys who can still go on for thousands more points with that handycap. I have had a lot of fun with this game this crimbo.