QUOD INIT EXIT IIo

Devlog

• Progress report 17
  July 25, 2025 by RETREAM

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  The manual review is done. I thought I'd let you have a look at it so that you can get an idea of the gameplay and get ready to play. This is not a text but a (big) picture because that's exactly how... Continue reading

  
• Progress report 16
  July 23, 2025 by RETREAM

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  The development is essentially complete: all that's left to do is a couple of final testing runs, manual review, a little trailer and the itch.io cover image. In short: the release is nearing ;) In th... Continue reading

  
• Progress report 15
  July 19, 2025 by RETREAM

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  The development of the FACTORY zone is complete! The relief and satisfaction can't be put in words. Along the way, the other zones have been improved and extended, and the main code has been improved... Continue reading
• Progress report 14
  July 08, 2025 by RETREAM

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  Zampo loves unconditionally all food, but loves chocolate more than everything! So, he just has to start his quest from a chocolate factory ;) The only zone that is missing before the game is complete... Continue reading
• Progress report 13
  June 26, 2025 by RETREAM

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  Now that, after countless modifications, reallocations and additions, the design of the charset is almost finished (only 1 black, 3 brown, 1 pink and 2 middle grey characters remain to be defined), I... Continue reading

  
• Progress report 12
  June 22, 2025 by RETREAM

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  The development of the missing zone (FACTORY) is underway. As seen in the animation, to carry out his quest, Zampo sometimes has to collect potties also from inside industrial machines... P.S. Also, t... Continue reading

  
• Technical insights and a piece of news
  June 16, 2025 by RETREAM

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  QUOD INIT EXIT IIo has been in the works for about 9 years, and that is on top of the foundations laid by QUOD INIT EXIT IIm (and, even before that, by the ending of MAH ). Lately I explained two tech... Continue reading
• Progress report 11
  March 05, 2025 by RETREAM

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  Finally one more zone (i.e. level) of the game is complete! Enter the mad scientist's TOWERS! (Yes, it's also a tribute to a certain famous C64 game.) Making this zone has been even tougher than the o... Continue reading
• Progress report 10
  December 28, 2024 by RETREAM

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  2024 began with some promising work on the TOWERS zone of QUOD INIT EXIT IIo, but then the game was sidelined by other projects. Now that the year is ending, work resumed! Zone status: * code/features... Continue reading
• Progress report 9
  October 29, 2024 by RETREAM

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  Unfortunately, the development of the game is progressing as slowly as ever. Since no further development will be done this year, I thought I had better show you at least the progress done back in Jan... Continue reading

  
• History
  June 24, 2023 by RETREAM

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  Preview 9 (unreleased) * Replaced the NEW PORK zone with the FACTORY zone (which had been discarded previously), as the latter allowed a more interesting design and was related to the story. * Worked... Continue reading
• Preview 6
  May 12, 2023 by RETREAM

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  Finally another preview is ready! This is what it includes: * quickstart guide * intro * manual * full zones 1 and 4 * placeholders for zones 2 and 3 * crippled zone 5 * placeholder for outro This is... Continue reading

  
• Progress report 8
  May 05, 2023 by RETREAM

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  Quick update. The release of the 6th preview is taking longer than I had anticipated because, after getting the game to build again, I felt ashamed of releasing a preview that would reflect the develo... Continue reading
• Progress report 7
  April 03, 2023 by RETREAM

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  After releasing the previous preview, work continued and brought the changes listed at the bottom. Then, the unforeseen happened: a friend came home, we talked about books and I mentioned an Amiga gam... Continue reading
• Progress report 6
  October 10, 2022 by RETREAM

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  The release of the next preview is nearing! Among other things, it will feature some new mechanics and a bigger (but only about 40% complete) FUN PARK zone map - the animgif shows a little timelapse a... Continue reading

  
• Progress report 5
  September 18, 2022 by RETREAM

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  The development continues slowly, but still quite some progress is being made. I'll post a full changelog when I release the next preview (soonish), but for the moment being I'll just report that the... Continue reading

  
• Progress report 4
  June 08, 2022 by RETREAM

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  There's been quite some progress since the previous preview video. The most notable changes are: * new technical/gameplay mechanics have been added; * the FORTRESS zone map has been finished; * the te... Continue reading
• Progress report 3
  June 07, 2022 by RETREAM

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  [Originally posted on May 30, 2022] Development goes on. Slowly, but progress is being made daily. A milestone just reached is that the last zone (FORTRESS) map has finally been finished! (This doesn'... Continue reading

  
• Progress report 2
  June 07, 2022 by RETREAM

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  [Originally posted on May 26, 2022] Development has been progressing quite nicely: * Almost finished the FORTRESS zone map. * Added mechanism for performing real-time arbitrary changes to maps (and us... Continue reading

  
• Progress report 1
  June 07, 2022 by RETREAM

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  [Originally posted on April 14, 2022] After a few years dedicated mostly to Amiga projects, lately I've resumed the work on QUOD INIT EXIT IIo . I'm progressing at snail pace, but at least things are... Continue reading
• Preview 1
  June 07, 2022 by RETREAM

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  [Originally posted on March 16, 2020] WHY A PREVIEW? I never release previews, but this time several reasons added up and convinced me to go for it: the development has been sluggish in the last 3 yea... Continue reading