A Hardy Developer's Journal

When Linode announced their new European servers, I became one of the first to jump aboard and have their VPS migrated to the new London datacentre. With much of the Hardydev team (notably Mr Hardy himself) being Europeans, it made perfect sense to host the site somewhere closer to home.
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Hello! I'm a server!

Just a note to say that hardydev, the one stop shop for reviews and interviews has moved from it’s WordPress.com home to a snappy new Server. More accurately, a VPS run by yours truly, Joe Davison. If you find any performance issues or errors, or just any problems at all then please contact me at joe[at]thosedamnpeanuts[dotcom] and I’ll try to get them fixed as soon as possible.

If you would like your own VPS then check out Linode.

Patrik Spacek's (MISP's Captain Smirk) remade MI1 background from way back (click for more of his work)

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Winner for Best Demo at AGS Awards 2009

You can download the WIP demo here. (UPDATED 02.2010)

Follow Franko himself on Twitter.

Scroll down for links to Development Diaries.

A walkthrough for the demo is available here.

Feedback greatly appreciated!

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Back to The Future with a female lead and an old scarf instead of a DeLorean…

Yet another stopmotion animation short of mine that you can watch for free
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Finally, there has come the moment that I was waiting for a very long time – I can start a production diary for my own adventure game! Not because I have just put together a loose concept or created the first artwork, no. It is the right moment to begin writing about the game because I have now finished a working version of one of three acts of the full project – to be tweaked and released soon (next month) as a WIP demo. So, while much much work still needs to be done, even on the demo, from this moment on there will be always  some solid virtual entity to refer to. In other words, Frantic Franko now lives! (more…)