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Welcome to the drop spider games web site. It is early days yet and this is a simple hand crafted web site. For now, checkout the about tab for information on how to contact drop spider. In coming months, news of games from drop spider will be released, and some interesting history associated with them. Also articles on the design and concepts will be published here, and of course some artwork pictures. Drop Spider You Tube Channel 10-Apr-10 Drop Spider now has a channel on You Tube. It has the Golem Crusades Sneak Peek Video, but better than that is has an on-going video developement blog for the game. Venom Engine Detailed 28-Mar-10 The engine tech. behind Golem Crusades has been described here, giving an insight to how the technique of deferred rendering is done. Guide to Golem Crusades Spells 26-Mar-10 The spell list for Hasrinaxx has been released on the Golem Crusades website. Golem Crusades Sneak Peek 15-Mar-10 A small teaser video has been posted here, showing work in progress on Golem Crusades. Screen Play Article 24-Feb-10 Article at Screen Play (theage.com.au) on Drop Spider, myself and Golem Crusades. Before consoles started to dominate the video game landscape, many budding developers like Australia's Andew Bailey got their start in the fledgling industry by banging away on home computers.... Golem Crusades Announced 28-Jan-10 PRESS RELEASE: Hasrinaxx the Druid returns to the video game screen after two decades from his 8 bit glory days. He has made the transition from 3 colour sprite to 3D polygon wonderment, now fully animated, he is ready to help the people of Belorn to yet again to take on the evil forces of Acamantor. Druid Fan Page 09-Jan-10 A Fan Page on Facebook has been created. It has links to all things Druid and a scrapbook in the Album section. Please follow the link and join! Original Started 01-Jan-10 Drop Spider Games has started in ernest on an original game, initially for PC and probably consoles to follow. More when the game web-site has some content. Druid on iPhone 23-Nov-09 The original Commodore 64 Druid game is now available on iPhone via emulation thanks to Kiloo and Manomio. Druid History 17-Nov-09 Druid (and its sequel) were hit games on the Commodore 64. Read a brief history about them.