Buziol Games

Buziol Games
Date of foundation:	2001
Date of closure:	2007
Owner(s):	Michał Gdaniec

Buziol Games (also known as Buziol Games Software) was the little indie team who first developed Mario Forever. The group was comprised of only two people: Michał Gdaniec (aka Michael "Buziol" Gdanietz), who has developed the game entirely on his own, and Maurycy "Skell" Zarzycki, who only helped in beta testing. Buziol Games started developing Mario Forever in early 2000 with Multimedia Fusion 1.2.

Buziol Games has been in activity since 2001 to 2006, until Mario Forever v4.15 was released. Since 2008, Buziol Games has rebranded as Softendo and picked the project back up in 2009, continuing to develop it.

History

Early days (1995-2000)

Michał Gdaniec was born on February 4th, 1982 in Poland. He started making his own games in Amiga 1200, by using the Backbone Game Dev Tool. His first names prior to Buziol Games were BARNEY SOFTWARE, MR-X SOFTWARE, and finally Retrograde Software.

His Amiga 1200 games were Alien Language, Space Strategy. The General Raisins, Fancy Boy Adventures. Madloc Adventures, Shadow Warriors, The NIX out of friends. All of them released in 1995, along with The ORDER and Mario Forever in 1996. However, all of his Amiga 1200 games are lost, and that made Michał start his own freeware games adventure.

The Start of Buziol Games (2001-2002)

Michał Gdaniec made his own website called Buziol Games in 2001. Ninja Testicles Deluxe was his first game that he made in Multimedia Fusion, along with other earlier games, most of them being unfinished like Demons Revel and Force Impact. The only completed games he released were Madlocnoid and Punch War, along with Stargrade and Myster Muszel, and Urbagility.

The Golden Age (2003-2005)

Many games like Myster Muszel 2 were made in 2003. The most popular one, however was Bod Blob, which was a hit with its simple yet logic gameplay. Buziol started getting interest to the Super Mario series, in which he made three Mario games, that being Super Mario Bross Berek, Super Mario Bross Minix, and Super Mario Shooten.

But then, he had the idea of making a true Mario game, using Multimedia Fusion 1.2, and with the help of Maurycy Zarzycki (Skellzoft), who made a small game with him called Kulkis and Diamentowa Przygoda. Mario Forever was released publicly in 2004, and was a huge success with its simple game play. After seeing its success, Buziol decided to update the game with fixing bugs and adding new stuff.

In 2004, GRY.o2.PL, a famous Polish forum website, requested Buziol if he could make a custom world dedicated to it, which would feature humans in it. The update containing World WWW.GRY.o2.PL (which has been renamed as Human Laboratory World) was released in June 25th, 2004. After nearly 2 months, Buziol released Mario Worker, which kept getting updates until November 22nd, 2004, when Mario Worker v1.0 was released and the project was discontinued. It was also the year where Buziol got a secondary language for his website, which is English. Buziol re-released English versions of his old Polish games, while keeping the Polish ones for his fans from Poland.

Nothing happened in 2005, although Buziol was revamping his website to be ready for the next year and updating Mario Forever before 2006.

The Silver Age (2006-2007)

Buziol came back this time, with a new website design and a new game, Urbagility 2. Mario Forever also got an update, featuring new stuff, along with the removal of MF Info and the sequel of Bod Blob 2 started development. He also released another Mario Forever update, which included the return of Mario Worker, in a different style. He also made Obliterator for a Game Maker Clan Week Contest, in which it won first place and won the contest.

Around 2006, Buziol made Super Mario Bross Minix, now named as Mario Minix, an online game, along with Mario Forever The Lost Map and some of his other games. and in an unknown time, Bod Blob 2 was cancelled after being nearly finished, and Mario Forever got its 'last' update on November 16th, 2006.

The Mysterious Disappearance of Buziol Games (2007-2009)

In summer of 2007, the website's servers were shut down, which confused a lot of its members. However, it was found out that its News corner was still working in 2008, and around 2009, the website was being under construction under a new name, called Softendo.

Criticism

Most of his old games like Stargrade and Urbagility were average, although Mario Forever and Bod Blob, along with Myster Muszel 1 & 2 and Urbagility 2 were very praised for their music and game play. Especially Mario Forever, with its MOD format music and its levels and worlds being unique. The downside however was its toolbar that brings unwanted plugins to browsers, mainly Mario Forever and Urbagility 2. Along with his older games and the old versions of his recent games having bugs, which were fixed in later versions.

List of games Buziol Games made

• Alien Language (1995; First game Buziol has ever made; lost)

• Space Strategy (1995; lost)

• The General Raisins (1995; lost)

• Fancy Boy Adventures (1995; lost)

• Madloc Adventures (1995; lost)

• Shadow Warriors (1995; lost)

• The NIX out of friends (1995; lost)

• The ORDER (1996; lost)

• Mario Forever 1996 (1996; lost)

• Ninja Testicles Deluxe (2001; also known as Ninja Jonder Deluxe, Ninja With The Real Balls; First game Buziol has ever made in Multimedia Fusion)

• Stargrade (2001)

• Madloc Future (2001)

• Madlocnoid (2001-2002; updated in 2006)
• Force Impact (2001/2002; Buziol's first step to 3D games; Pre-Alpha and abandoned)
• Demons Revel (2002; Pre-Alpha and unfinished)
• Myster Muszel (2002; updated in 2006)
• ORDER II (2002; cancelled)
• Punch War (2002; also known as Bijak War)
• Urbagility (2002)
• Axaritanianum (2003(?); cancelled(?))
• Bod Blob (2003)
• Defender Saga (2003; Pre-Alpha and abandoned)
• Diamentowa Przygoda (also known as Diamond Advenutre) (2003; with Skell)
• JEAN! (2003; abandoned)
• Kulkis (Multimedia Fusion) (2003; with Skell)
• Myster Muszel 2 (2003)
• Mario Forever (v1.15-v4.1) (2003-2006)
• Oscar Forever (2003; abandoned)
• Stargrade Superforce (2003; unfinished)
• Super Mario Bross Berek (2003; updated in 2006, now called Super Mario: The Tag Play)
• Super Mario Bross Minix (2003)
• Super Mario Shooten (2003)
• Bod Blob 2 (2004-2006; cancelled)
• Budixy Platform (2004; unfinished)

• Heliforce (2004)

• Mario Worker (2004; v0.1-v1.0) (2006; v4.0-v4.1)

• Shooterex (2004; also known as Shootery; unfinished)
• Stargrade 2 (2004; unfinished)
• Obliterator (2006)
• Mario Minix Online (2006)
• Madlocnoid Online (2006)
• Mister Shell (Myster Muszel Online;2006)
• Mario Forever: The Lost Map Online (2006)
• Urbagility Survival (2006)
• Urbagility 2 (2006; Last game Buziol released, before rebranding to Softendo)

Gallery

Logos

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  Buziol's first logo, which was used in most of his old games like Urbagility, Myster Muszel, Stargrade, and Ninja With The Real Balls (An animated one also exists, which was only used in Bod Blob).

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  A slightly different logo of Buziol's first logo from 2001, but without the Buziol symbol. Was only used in Madlocnoid.

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  An alternate logo of Buziol Games, it was used only in Madloc Future.

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  Buziol's old logo from 2004, which was used in Mario Forever v2.16 and v3.0.

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  Buziol's final logo from 2006, which was only used in Mario Forever v4.0 and v4.1 before rebranding to Softendo.

External Links

• https://forum.gmclan.org/profile/72-buziol/