Ralf wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 9:56 am
...and then decided to chuck in the towel altogether in 2018:
Artem Orlov/Oleg Origin is a bit mysterious person And you can't be really 100% sure what true about him and what's fake.
Some people even claimed that he doesn't exist, that his games were a project of several people.
But I believe he exists, he's a single, real man and I also believe he... didn't abandon writing games for Spectrum.
I wouldn't be so surprised if he was somehow involved in Valley of Rains
Behind Zosya Entertainment (the people who did Valley of Rains, Drift! and Just a Gal for the Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019), there's a team. The spokeswoman for this development team on social networks and press interviews is Natasha Zotova (also programmer in the group and author of an awarded BASIC game called Lava).
You can find news related to Zosya here (
https://vk.com/zosya_net). I especially recommend reading these two interviews with Natasha Zotova (
https://idpixel.ru/news/1874-intervju-s ... -of-rains/) and (
https://idpixel.ru/news/1924-obzory-igr ... rtainment/), they are working on more than 50 Spectrum games that are in different stages of development, and some of them will be released in 2020.
I think it's clear Zosya it's a team effort of anonymous developers. I think Oleg Origin is simply an alias, but the man/woman behind that alias is clearly involved in Zosya. Valley of Rains shares a lot of techniques previously developed on Metal Man Reloaded.