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GigaMess is a small game making group founded in 1995.

Members

  • Hannu Kankaanpää. Programming, graphics.
  • Kimmo Palander. Music & sfx.
  • Sampsa Lehtonen. Programming.
  • Teppo Kankaanpää. Personal assistant ;).

Games

Game descriptionScreenshot
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TOU - Tunnels Of the Underworld. 2d scrolling action multiplayer game.

  • Makers: Hannu and Kimmo (+others)
  • Language: English
  • Year: 2002
TOU screenshot

BattleCity 2. Discontinued project. 3d action/strategy online game. Still in alpha stage, and the project is frozen at the moment. Click the link to check the home pages and download an alpha version.

  • Makers: Hannu, Vesa Tuomiaro
  • Language: English
  • Year: 2000
Battlecity 2 screenshot

Täystuho. Horizontally scrolling shooting-game. Notice that this game's language is Finnish. Just press 1,2,3 or 4 to start a new game, the in-game controls are very easy to guess.

  • Makers: Hannu, Tapio Raevaara and Mikale
  • Language: Finnish, but you'll manage
  • Year: 1998
Täystuho screenshot

Rally Mania. A small racing game where you can kill pedestrians too. Works only in dos mode! (choose start/shut down/->dos mode). Jumpers made the gfx and I coded. (not a GigaMess production)

  • Makers: Hannu and Teemu
  • Language: English
  • Year: 1997
Rally Mania screenshot

The Game. Simple shooting game. Aim and shoot with mouse and move the player with keyboard. Includes a level editor. My second C game.

  • Makers: Hannu
  • Language: English.
  • Year: 1996
The Game screenshot

Dudekiller. Jump and kill. My first C game.

  • Makers: Hannu
  • Language: Finnish, but you'll manage
  • Year: 1996
Dudekiller screenshot

Tank wars. Tank shooting game made with QuickBasic.

Despite that this game isn't very good, over 300 people downloaded this game during the first month after release (which was quite a lot back in the days when the world revolved around BBSs and not the Internet).

  • Makers: Hannu and Sampsa
  • Language: Finnish
  • Year: 1994
Tank wars screenshot

Trail Burners. A simple worm game with computer pilots (dumb). By the way this is a total clone of another worm game (it had the same name also). Only computer pilots are new in this.

  • Makers: Hannu
  • Language: Finnish
  • Year: 1995
Trail Burners screenshot

Pop 'em up. An asteroids clone.

  • Makers: Hannu and Sampsa
  • Language: Finnish mostly
  • Year: 1994
Pop 'em up screenshot

Labyrinth. Creates billions of mazes which you have to solve. Includes line-of-sight. My first QBasic game.

  • Makers: Hannu
  • Language: English.
  • Year: 1992
Labyrinth screenshot