"The alien jumping Cebolla7 escaped the planet and returned to continue his odyssey." Flea and with it returns to its creator, Paco Suarez, head of the new study Mandanga. The Spanish considered the first game was developed on a computer Sinclair ZX81 and later adapted to the ZX Spectrum, one of the most popular home computers of the eighties and with which many computer enthusiasts and interactive entertainment, today already exceeds music, film and video together by level of income."This time the alien has fallen into a much bigger and more dangerous. Nothing more, nothing less than the planet Earth! This is not about a cuevecilla out of nothing, here are countless places to travel tratra full of enemies, and some other friend. " The new edition of the game, QQ # 2 The Flea, is available for Windows, Mac and some distributions of Linux open source operating system.
The download is free and can play three different levels. To enjoy the full version, the player must pay 7.77 euros. Will also soon iPhones, Android and Nokia. "The Flea for mobile is a bit different, with many levels, but simpler," says Suarez. The Flea Indescomp working for the company, Amstrad seed Spain.
"I did the programming and graphics, then a game made a maximum of three." Also called Boogaboo was a simple game, according to the computers of the era of 8 bits, when today are megs. The player was busy trying to get the poor creature with long legs and yellow of the hole it had fallen.
Addictive, like any good game, was a bestseller in Spain and, especially, Britain in 1982. "People said it was his fault suspended or late to work because they could not pull away from the screen. Come on, who could not stop playing," he recalls. Soon after, the computer game Indescomp-Pedro Ruiz, José Ramón Fernández, Paco Suárez Menéndez and himself, among others, founded Opera Soft starting the so-called golden age of Spanish software.
"Many thought we were crazy, but it was great fun because we were leading the way. That feeling of being pioneers was fantastic." Opera Soft out hits such as Livingstone, I presume, The Abbey of Crime (based on the novel by Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose) or Goody, a thief who lives a thousand adventures to rob the Bank of Spain.
"I remember the day Gonzo Suarez [director of the subsequent saga Commandos strategy] was planted in the office claiming that he hacked one of our games. I thought, 'What hill is this guy', but it went well, because soon after began working with us. Goody was his first game. " Suárez, La Pulga, Opera Soft left before the debacle of the late eighties, when most businesses closed.
"The Spanish market was still small, it was hard to compete with large foreign companies and investors did not believe in our chances." Now, after 25 years working as a programmer, computer consultant and also creating control systems for aircraft or flight simulators, Paco Suarez decided to return to what he enjoys: "games." He first took the pulse of the sector in Revistronic, "unfortunately disappeared with the crisis", and since last August in front of his own studio, which he defines as "a garage-style cybernetic retromoderno." Mandanga is the fruit of their savings and three partners.
"None was engaged in the sector, but I wanted to know the visual world" in seeking to win back the public with small, casual games, "to entertain such a time, which does not require a huge investment behind or business infrastructure. "The sector has become very interesting because there is everything from the multinational to the big productions to small studies that do really good things, small gems like World of Goo, the best game in a long time." The Flea, Mandanga first pitch has not changed the essence of the Flea, but in its creation more people have spoken: three full-time and five part-time for six months.
The game is controlled with only two buttons, "according to press more or less, you control the strength of the jump." Simplicity total for a game of skill in the style of popular pissed Angry Birds.
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