Fanmade Giana Sister Games

[Kahleb]

I'm not sure if there are many Giana fans here, but I have an interest in the older Giana Worlds fanmade games so I've been hoarding quite a few of their old releases.

You can find most of what I have at this site. http://www-stud.rbi.informatik.uni-fran ... Worlds.htm

Giana Worlds 0.83 is most likely the game that sticks out the most to anyone who played any of these long ago. It's pure nostalgia to me, at least.

In either case, they made an unfinished sequel for the Dreamcast and GP32 called "Giana's Return" in 2004. I have not managed to acquire the GP32 version, but I have the selfboot files for the Dreamcast version. It can be burned and played on original hardware or emulated with a Dreamcast emulator of your preference. Here's some footage I recorded of the game in action in Demul.



I'll update the thread with more material if there's any interest. For now, here's Giana's Return 0.90

https://mega.nz/#!nd1RBYjD

[MrFlibble]

Have you tried contacting Rainer Sinsch? I sent him an e-mail a couple of years ago at the address from his site, but he never replied.

[Kahleb]

Have you tried contacting Rainer Sinsch? I sent him an e-mail a couple of years ago at the address from his site, but he never replied.

I have attempted to, albeit with a different email address I stumbled upon but I didn't get an answer either. Neither are likely active accounts he still checks.

He has an inactive youtube account featuring footage from a WIP Giana Worlds 2 Engine from 2008.



The description reads

This video shows my new 2D jump'n run engine in action. The engine itself features
- OpenGL hardware rendering with high resolution tiles
- Lightmaps
- Darkmaps
- Particle Animation
- Enhanced LUA Scripting support
- Powerful level development package including scripting compiler and editor

Modern assets would likely have been available on his https://web.archive.org/web/20140330111 ... sinsch.de/ site, but none of the Giana files have been archived. So unless anyone has a mirror of those files or Rainer himself still has them somewhere they're probably gone.

However, not all hope is lost seeing as he has another site which is still up and running today containing a build of the engine from November of 2006.

Here it is. http://www-stud.rbi.informatik.uni-fran ... orlds2.htm

Not only that, but there's also working links to a PDF file with slight documentation on utilizing basic features contained within the engine.