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cover design Jose Antonio GallardoMadrid, Spain

Can you please introduce yourself to our readers?

First I want to say I am only part of a team, but I can say

I am the Director of Retromade Games Studio, we are a

small team so we have many roles here :), but mainly I am a

multimedia developer/programmer. I began as multimedia

developer practically 20 years ago. I worked several years

for consulting & advertising/publicity agencies even in

small studios too and developing games for JAVA enabled

phones. I am too a 3D modeler, so, as you can see I have to

do many things every day :)

What is Retromade Games Studio?

Retromade Games Studio it is a small team with big

dreams J We are senior professionals with many years

of experience from different areas (art, illustration,

programming, servers, etc...) we decided to join to make

true an old dream for us, to develop games. Let me talk for

example about Alex Cervantes, he is our Creative Director

and he is too a known illustrator / 2D animator with some

awards in the animation industry. Or Fabio Ospitia, our

CTO a great server side professional, he does all the magic

when our apps need to be connected.

The cover design is from a real-time app called ‘Solaria’.

Why did you made this?

When I was practically a kid and I had my first ZX Spectrum

I began to learn BASIC and my first little program was a

simulation (very, very, very basic) about our Solar System...

I am a great sci-fi fan, so I always dreamed to make a better

simulation, during years I tried to do something in this way.

Now with the power of tablets and development tools

like Unity I was enabled to do a simulation I will fill good

with it. And this a basic part of Retromade Games Studio

phylosophy, to develop apps we will enjoy as user too.

But even Solaria is going to be released as an educational

app to learn all about our Solar System and to enjoy

stunning views from every planet or moon, the space

engine will be used later for some of our future games.

What was the most challenging part while

making this app?

Every planet or moon are texturized with openGL shaders,

iOS and Android only works with 2.0 shaders, this mean

only 64 shader instructions. For example when Earth

shader was made by first time it uses more than twice

instructions and this was only available in modern graphics

cards with shader model 3.0, so I need to work hard to get

the same result or as better as possible with 64 instruction,

but you can see the results after practically 1 month

developing and testing this Earth shader. Now multiply

this for every planet and moon.

With what programs did you made the 3D models?

I always use Blender but we have people here who use 3D

Studio Max too. For example Fixie Joe (a platform game

we will release this year) character is modeled with 3D

Studio Max.

What does the game industry has in store for you?

This is not the question, the question is what we have

for game industry J and I think Retromade Games Studio

have a great wish to do really good and fun games or

apps, games we will love to play. If we do a good work the

industry and the users will reward us. We only expect to do

good things even we have a short budget.

By the way, if someone wants to support us, please

visit appbackr.com a sort of crowdfunding for apps but

backers will receive money when app begins to sale with

a minimum profit of 27%, so users... if you support us you

can win money with us :)

EFG MEMBER: Jose Antonio GallardoDirector / CEO at Retromade Games Studio LtdMadrid, Spain

For more information: http://retromadegames.com/

Contact info: [email protected]

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