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Duranik: We started making games on the Atari ST back in the 80s, most of this stuff was never released as it where just little small games. In 1996 we released Impulse on the Atari Falcon, this game is currently converted to the Jaguar bei MDGames http://mdgames.de/impulsex_eng.html
Later we created Alpine Games for the little Lynx Handheld System.

Alpine Games - wcześniejsza produkcja Duranik

Duranik: We prefer to stay in privacy ;) But we intend to visit the German jagfest one day..

Duranik: We are 2 brothers, my brother is doing all the coding, I do all graphics and level design etc.

Duranik: This is just a hobby for us; of course we both have regular jobs where we go every day. That's one part why it took so long to get it finished.

Duranik: Well, they knew we were developing something for the DC, so the bugged as long enough to publish it with redspotgames. Apart from this the communication is done with email.

Duranik: No, the games have nothing in common apart from both being shmups. There is no graphics or anything which is shared between those two projects.

Porównanie Native (Jaguar) i Sturmwind (Dreamcast)

Duranik: I'm not 100% sure about this anymore, we discussed if an what we could work on, at the beginning we had the Mega Drive in mind, but ended up on DC as it seemed easier to get the necessary hardware..

Proces tworzenia Sturmwind

Duranik: There were probably around 250 changes and enhancements made since the beta test, as we had the time because of the production delays, we added lots of stuff that wasn't planned initially.

Sturmwind - zrzuty ekranu z gry

Duranik: Yes, the game is based on KOS.

Duranik: No, the Dreamcast is a very easy machine to handle.

Sturmwind - gameplay

Duranik: We worked with 505 before and always loved his work, the soundtrack is great, and there is also a Sturmwind Audio CD which is bundled with the limited edition of the game.

505 - kompozytor ścieżki dźwiękowej

Duranik: Sturmwind is developed for the "casual" Dreamcast fan, you don't have to be a hardcore shooter maniac to see some later levels. If you have a couple of minutes spare time left and want to play something without going through a 20 page introduction, than this is for you.

Duranik: Well of course there will be a lot of people crying it's not Shenmue 3 :-), but you have to be realistic what you could develop with a very small team, otherwise you will not be able to finish anything. The other point is when we started with the game there were not many other shooters out, even under defeat was released afterwards.

Duranik: We cannot say anything about a release date apart from "soon". You have to ask redspotgames for a more specific date.

RedSpotGames - wydawca gry

Duranik: No not really, we have some ideas at which point we would consider it a success.

Duranik: Oh really? That's nice, didn't know that, thanks.

Duranik: This is all tied to the SD Card, if you have a SD Card adapter plugged in your Dreamcast you get lots of additional features, DLC would be one of them. There is no DLC at the moment this all depends on the success.

Duranik: There is VMU support, weapons will be shown etc. nothing really groundbreaking. At the beginning we thought about little VMU games, but to be honest, it's not really worth the time, no one ever wrote anything about the VMU display during the whole beta test..

Duranik: There is a worldwide leaderboard with rankings etc. This will be on our website.

Duranik: It was planned at the beginning but skipped, now it's too late to add this. Thinking about this now it would have been a nice feature.

Duranik: We have currently no plans on new projects.

Duranik: Uncharted 1-3

Duranik: Naughty Dog

Duranik: Under Defeat

Duranik: Soul Calibur

Duranik: Unfortunately we never have been in Poland so far, perhaps we have the chance to change this in the future, theres great stuff coming from Poland for the old 8 bit computers these days. And we are watching the EuroMundial on TV.

Thanks for the interview and I hope all polish Dreamcast fans will enjoy Sturmwind.

Best regards - Johannes & Roland Graf / Duranik