cNp

March 5

On 2/23/2024 at 1:46 PM, Dieter Laser said:

I'm not against clamshell versions myself, I'm just afraid to order from UK to Germany. I had nothing but problems, still waiting for a package that hasn't moved for a month…

Of the 136 Vyrzons I've sold so far I've sent 16 to Germany and not had any issues reported.

I use Royal Mail and put the correct item value and other details on the customs slip... I know that people using other couriers have had parcels returned to them after several months without being delivered.

January 9

I will only be doing a clamshell version of Vyrzon; with Frontier and Quartz's Quest in print and in cardboard boxes I have neither the space or money to stock another game's worth of printed cardboard boxes along with plastic cart trays and box protectors.

When all the overlays are gone it will be a simple clamshell release like Big Blue has become... that is the destiny of all of the games I do which I think is preferable to discontinuing them.

😎

December 5, 2023

As Minsoft have now finished their full boxed production of Vyrzon (just shy of 400 copies) I am pleased to say that Vector Republic have now taken over publishing of this amazing game with a clamshell version... you can find details and order from www.vectorrepublic.co.uk

👾👾👾👾 👾👾👾👾 👾👾👾👾

May 3, 2023

Greetings! Thought i'd just put an overdue update in this thread as I released a budget clamshell version of Big Blue now that all of the final original boxes etc. are definitely now found, made, and sold

Full boxed with overlay versions of Frontier and Quartz's Quest are still available for now.

https://www.vectorrepublic.co.uk/Big-Blue-Clam-Shell-Edition-GCE-US-Style-p523480952

April 4, 2021

Cheers guys, am shipping out in a day normally atm and post generally seems to have sped up a bit

March 16, 2021

A very affordable PCB and label version by Andrew Coleman shipping from the UK:

http://vectrex.playntradeonline.com/

March 15, 2021

On 3/13/2021 at 6:14 PM, GoldLeader said:

Does anyone know the U.S. price? Thanks!

The game is £39 and postage, which is auto calculated against Royal Mail for International Tracked, is coming out about £18.

March 9, 2021

Nice one, glad it arrived safely

March 8, 2021

Thanks guys, I really enjoyed the game, hence why I got in touch with the author to offer to publish an enhanced version.

We've added silver ink to the packaging this time too so it's the most authentic looking boxes we've ever done

March 6, 2021

The game Quartz's Quest has been updated and enhanced and is now available from www.vectorrepublic.co.uk

Available as a "name your own price" rom from denebola-interactive.itch.io/quartzs-quest/ it has had a number of additions and enhancements and given the Vector Republic physical release treatment :)

A quick list of the improvements/additions in this physical version over the "name your own price" digital version that came out a couple years back:

- A number of gameplay balancing changes to enhance the challenge and improve the difficulty curve as well as replayability

- Many graphical enhancements and additions to both the overworld and the dungeons

- A custom fantasy style font added to replace the system font

- Optimised text routines to eliminate flicker and slowdown on text heavy screens (by the genius that is Malban!)

- Original music added to the title page composed by Jon Bennett who did the Frontier music

- Interface improvements in shops to avoid buying inferior kit

- Text changes and corrections as well as formatted better to work with the overlay

- Bug fixes

December 2, 2019

Hi,

BinaryStar is right, there's no Bank Switching (or anything clever!) going on in Big Blue; just BIOS calls to set intensity... I set intensity generally at the lower end of things so on the odd Vectrex it requires the brightness to go a bit higher but mostly it's fine as is (it's ok on all 7 of my test machines).

In Frontier I went a bit higher with the intensities in general.

Cheers,

Chris

June 13, 2019

Website now updated and ordering underway... already 128 copies sold!

https://vectorrepublic.co.uk/

June 10, 2019

Very nice. 109 is quite an accomplishment.

Cheers

Amazingly, Big Blue has sold 482 copies in its various guises.

June 10, 2019

Fantastic work, that looks great! Also interested if you decide to make a run of these.

June 10, 2019

All pre-orders now shipped, getting the website updated now for taking orders properly... already 109 copies accounted for

May 12, 2019

Do you know if there is a demo available?

There's no demo but I've posted a few videos on Twitter and Facebook as Vector Republic... I'll record some new final vids soon too.

May 7, 2019

How do we pre-order (or did I miss it?)? Excited for this game!

I've quietly begun pre-orders to help pay some of the up front printing costs... if you use the Big Blue link to buy the game for your location (UK/EU/Rest of the World) and put a message in the PayPal payment to say it's a pre order for Frontier, along with your address, then I'll add you to the list:

http://vectorrepublic.co.uk/gce.html

Most of the individual items are ordered now so still on track to ship by the end of May.

May 4, 2019

@cNp

In case the box layout is not at printing yet:

There's tiny little typo in the german description. It has to be

'mit zusätzlichem Controller', not 'mitzusätzlichem Keyboard'

Hi Elwee, thanks for that... I have put a space in between mit and zusätzlichem.... I went with keyboard as, strangely, that is what it says on the original boxes!

Hopefully getting the boxes printed next week; should have final physical product by the end of May

May 3, 2019

Oh, and the game IS called Frontier... Outlaw Hill (the 2 player Vs game) is an extra on this full 1 player game

May 3, 2019

Wow, can't believe I didn't update this since the 2 player Vs was relegated to a secondary part of the release and a fully fledged 1 player game was realised! Near;ly ready to release full boxed game with overlay etc. like Big Blue was.