Project Status
April 1, 2012: Ultimate Newcomer will be released this month.
January 10, 2012: The IGF 2012 Independent Games Festival Main Competition has announced the list of finalists and honorary mentions today.
January 10, 2012: The IGF 2012 Independent Games Festival Main Competition has announced the list of finalists and honorary mentions today.
January 1, 2012: Happy New Year to all Newcomers and Islanders!
On the 25th of December we have started testing the new English/Hungarian builds for Windows/OS X. I'm disclosing this after a week of delay for two reasons: One, I was waiting for test results (pretty good so far!), and two, it took me a week to recover from the crunch time that completing this build took.
The end is in sight, and quite near. Soon, just before the actual release we will publish an updated, informative promo poster in English about the many recent changes and improvements.
October 25, 2011: We are pleased to announce that during the last 12 months Ultimate Newcomer underwent an extra expansion phase, and as of today this expanded version is an official entry at the IGF 2012 Independent Games Festival Main Competition.
July 23, 2011: One known bug left...
July 9, 2011: Two known bugs left...
June 24, 2011: Three known bugs left...
July 9, 2011: Two known bugs left...
June 24, 2011: Three known bugs left...
April 13, 2011: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
January 4, 2011: Final test phase has started for the English and Hungarian GM builds
January 2, 2011: Final linguistic QA phase for the English version complete
November 27, 2010: Extra linguistic QA phase in progress for the English version
November 1, 2010: Fixing the last known issues, in preparation for the Gold Master
January 2, 2011: Final linguistic QA phase for the English version complete
November 27, 2010: Extra linguistic QA phase in progress for the English version
November 1, 2010: Fixing the last known issues, in preparation for the Gold Master
Info & Articles
- About the game – story, screenshots, and features: Protovision - Newcomer Product Page
- A very technical (65xx assembler, localisation, project management) interview in Game Developer Magazine issue January 2011, p.4-5: Game Developer Magazine
- Interview at IDDQD blog: Szerdai retro - Newcomer
- Article on the 20 years of Newcomer project history split between the original, Enhanced, and Ultimate version developer teams: A project of multiple dev generations at IGF 2011
- A brief history of CID Studio, developers of the original and Enhanced versions of Newcomer (and other projects): About Us
- A commented example of the scripting language used for creating the original, Enhanced, and Ultimate versions of Newcomer: Enhanced Newcomer script example
- Fanpage at Facebook: Ultimate Newcomer at Facebook