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With a big shock, we just heard that Armin Gessert, famous creator of the original Giana Sisters series, died of a heart attack on 9th November 2009. The official obituary can be found here .

Our greatest condolences.

I have just been informed that our server will be upgraded from 30th October to 1st November 2009. During this period there will be no access to www.rsinsch.de and no access to our high performance modland mirror. This also means that the iPhone ModBox application will not be able to download modfiles from the internet during this weekend.

Perhaps some of you remember that Giana Worlds (version 1) was reviewed at NBC Giga back in 1999. While browsing through my old backup CD's I found this video and thought it could be interesting for the giana community. Here it is :

As the recent survey showed that there is indeed still interest in Giana Worlds 2 I finally came to the decision that it is time to continue working on it. And this time I feel that we are much closer to the end of the engines development cycle. New feature include

• Animated high resolution water surface
• Finalized fire particle animation
• Support for shooting enemies
• Updates in the level editor to make editing more intuitive
• Vast improvements in the scripting engine (in fact nearly the whole game is written via script)
  

See for yourself:

Of course the engine is fully frame independant and runs totally smooth with 60+ fps (and not as choppy as the video). You can also see that there is still need for new graphics, levels and music. So if you are interested feel free to contact me ;)

The new giana 2 engine now includes a versatile particle engine. Fire has already been implemented. The particle engine is fully written with the editors script engine and can be freely modified and viewed in realtime during level editing.



More screenshots can be found in the Giana Worlds 2 Screenshot section