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The Kiwi's Tale

The Kiwi's Tale
The Kiwi's Tale
The Kiwi's Tale
The Kiwi's Tale
The Kiwi's Tale
The Kiwi's Tale
The Kiwi's Tale
The Kiwi's Tale
The Kiwi's Tale

Two Kiwis named Nik and Zak must travel the beautiful land of Aotearoa, New Zealand to save the rest of their friends from an Alien sheep.


Loosely inspired by Taito's 1988 classic 'The New Zealand Story', this action platform game was developed for the 2008 Retro Remakes competition.

 

New - Mac version, XBox 360 Control support, two player split screen, easy mode, Português language option.

Game info
Designed by: 
Erik Hogan and Stephen Knightly
Platform: 
Windows and Mac (PPC and Intel)
Genre: 
Platformer
Theme: 
Cartoon
Critical Reception

"A beautiful platform game that is so far my defnite favourite of the games from the RetroRemakes 2008 Competition Showcase." - Captain D's Blog

"There are a good few hours of enjoyment to be had here and I’d definitely recommend The Kiwi’s Tale as a worthwhile game to play through for all the family!" - zolyx.co.uk

"A nice and funny action platformer taking place in New Zealand." 82% user approval - caiman.us

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Anonymous
The Kiwi's Tale

Absolutely love the concept!  Certainly very "Kiwi"esk with the collecting of rugby balls and jandals, etc.  Heh heh heh.  Very good.

Not sure what it is, but somehow the physics don't feel quite right in the jump.  Can't quite put my finger on it.

In any case, I think you should keep working on improving this one and I think it would be very highly marketable, particularly in the New Zealand market.  :-)  A really good little kids game in the tradition of games like the old Commodore 64 game, "New Zealand Story".

Anonymous
The Kiwi's Tale

Very nice game but unfortunatelly from the 3rd level is damn hard :D

Craig Neilson (not verified)
Done!

I clocked it! Not easy. What a great game. Someone email me the cheat codes? :-D

Earok
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Congrats

Congratulations Craig, given that I only told you about the game the other day, this has to be some kind of record!

Unofficially the only cheats in the game are Debug mode (invincibility) and level select, you can bring these up by pressing F11 and F12 at the "Escape Menu" while playing the game (Can't remember which one is which). Don't tell nobody.

dreamkatcha (not verified)
Mac version

Is there an updated Mac version available by any chance?

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My apologies, no there isn't

My apologies, no there isn't at the moment. Check back before the weekend, I should have a new Mac build posted by then.

Cool blog btw, I had no idea there was a Gloom remake in the works.

dreamkatcha (not verified)
That's brilliant news, I'll

That's brilliant news, I'll look forward to it, thanks. Glad you like my little corner of the web. :)

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My apologies, I haven't been

My apologies, I haven't been able to get it compiled yet. Shouldn't be too much longer though.

Fiss
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Good

Fun game I really like the background music but I don't like how the air plane ememies spawn in no where.

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Cheers Fiss. I know it can be

Cheers Fiss. I know it can be pretty daunting at times with all of the enemies spawning! I think if we did the game again we'd pay more attention to the balance.