The history (english)
· Jan 15, 2006, 5:59 PM
#18119
Sorry it took me a while. I was really busy lately, and barely gt the chance to do this. If you are reading this now, you can see that I wrote this on a Sunday. Day that people usually don't work on 
Here you go...
1996 ? 1999 When we met
When Goran bought his first PC, thanks to that Edi and Goran met. It is universally unknown how they heard about each other, but one thing is for sure, their interest for computers is the same.
In this period Edi is preoccupied with programming small programs, and learning the basics of Visual Basic. Goran is not too interested in programming however he works on a web page dedicated to soccer news. Web sites name was ?Football News?. Edi too is a webmaster of a page dedicated to his programs and so called games, ?Big Bear? is the name. Already here you can feel the presence of stars. Edi was then using the name ?All Stars?. You can say this was the name before the first real name.
2001 First game
In mid 2001 Goran felt all the joy in making games, for the first time, looking at one of the very first versions of Snakey. When Sankey was released few friends wanted to make games. Dragan, Ivan and Luka were the first ones to jump to help Edi. Although at that time we didn?t care much how are we called as a team or which our goals were. There was only desire for a new way of having fun. We hear for the first time ?Generation Stars?.
2002 New games, new member
By releasing Yambo and Yambo 2, Goran confirmed his place in the team, while Ivan and Luka were too occupied with their own business. Dragan and new member Dino helped Edi in making and releasing Raklem, till now our most noticed game. Raklem was the first game that found it?s place on a CD of some magazine. Magazines name was ?Hacker?. Because of Raklem we were mentioned in one more magazine, PC Play.
2003 New games, new members
Edi again as surely the brightest star makes and releases CaveShip, while Dino helped him. Dino also shows a talent with making Find 5. In the meantime new members Milos and Igor come along with great enthusiasm. Unfortunately Goran is inactive because of his move to another town and is beginning to loose touch with the team. Again our games show up in magazines. This time it was ?Bug?. Also we were mentioned in newspapers ?Nedjeljni vijesnik?. 2 more small games Generation Stars released that year.
2004 Official releasing of our first commercial project
Although it seems as our least productive year, 2004 is remembered for releasing our first commercial project. In Shareware form on English language ?Gink in Trouble? was released. Also with 3 small Freeware games Panic Invaders was made and Yambo and Yambo 2 were merged into one game Yambo Extra. Also 2004 goes into history for it was then when we opened the domain name GenerationStars.com. This year is surely characterized as the beginning of professionalism under Edi?s leadership. Off course we had new people on board. Mate joined as a member and Igor Lalic as an associate.
2005 Generation Stars ? Games for new generations
This is the year of a turning-point. Accomplishments in this year by far most raised the ladder to a much higher level with much more quality and professionalism. There was work done as much as all these years. Not in one year before we made and released so many games, present on whole Internet, mentioned in the press, Internet portals and even on TV!
- New Games
Gold Seeker, Speedy Lander, GS Inspector, Quiz Tac Toe, RetroQ and 5 ?1 Key? games were released. So there were 10 games, amazing! We also made localization on Croatian language for four our games, and also our website.
- GS goes retail
Together with opening of our Association under Croatian name ?Zvijezde Generacije? with the permission to use English name ?Generation Stars? we found a co-publisher and a distributor for Croatian market, Conor Ltd. In co-operation with Conor Ltd we released ?Gink u nevolji? (Gink in Trouble) together with four more Freeware games. Released and put in sale that is. Big co-operations with respectable companies are made. Companies like Iskon Internet and Log IT, and off course many other.
- Media
Media that mention us are: Novi List twice, Jutarnji List, Poslovni Semafor, Ri News, PC Chip. PC Play puts a record number of our games on theirs DVD, no less than 6. Milos is invited as a collocutor on Serbia and Monte Negro?s TV station. He was invited to talk about what else than game development. Numerous Internet portals talk about publishing Gink and other games. Iskon.hr, teen385.com, besplatne-stvari.com, odlikasi.hr, e-rijeka.com, mama-mami.com and dozen other write about releasing newest Croatian game ?Gink u nevolji?. On dozen of foreign portals a press release shows up saying we released ?Gink in Trouble?. Media on numerous occasions ask for our opinion and they value it. This is a big pleasure, but also a commendation and respect.
- New members
With new members Nikola and Ivana, team is richer for a new associate Denis. Team also gained a lot in reactivated Goran who came back to teams base in Rijeka. While team gained with Goran, he certainly lost with reduced activity in Dragan who is now working only as an associate. 2005 stays remembered with biggest traffic, like in everything, so it was with members.
- Records
Absolutely every existing record was broken in this year. Visiting records, new users, number of posts on our web site and on our forum. Records in sales, released games, new members, mentioning in the media, number of downloads of our games. Shortened, if there was a record it got broken in this year!
Your friend from our forum
Goran Duskic
Generation Stars Association
Here you go...
1996 ? 1999 When we met
When Goran bought his first PC, thanks to that Edi and Goran met. It is universally unknown how they heard about each other, but one thing is for sure, their interest for computers is the same.
In this period Edi is preoccupied with programming small programs, and learning the basics of Visual Basic. Goran is not too interested in programming however he works on a web page dedicated to soccer news. Web sites name was ?Football News?. Edi too is a webmaster of a page dedicated to his programs and so called games, ?Big Bear? is the name. Already here you can feel the presence of stars. Edi was then using the name ?All Stars?. You can say this was the name before the first real name.
2001 First game
In mid 2001 Goran felt all the joy in making games, for the first time, looking at one of the very first versions of Snakey. When Sankey was released few friends wanted to make games. Dragan, Ivan and Luka were the first ones to jump to help Edi. Although at that time we didn?t care much how are we called as a team or which our goals were. There was only desire for a new way of having fun. We hear for the first time ?Generation Stars?.
2002 New games, new member
By releasing Yambo and Yambo 2, Goran confirmed his place in the team, while Ivan and Luka were too occupied with their own business. Dragan and new member Dino helped Edi in making and releasing Raklem, till now our most noticed game. Raklem was the first game that found it?s place on a CD of some magazine. Magazines name was ?Hacker?. Because of Raklem we were mentioned in one more magazine, PC Play.
2003 New games, new members
Edi again as surely the brightest star makes and releases CaveShip, while Dino helped him. Dino also shows a talent with making Find 5. In the meantime new members Milos and Igor come along with great enthusiasm. Unfortunately Goran is inactive because of his move to another town and is beginning to loose touch with the team. Again our games show up in magazines. This time it was ?Bug?. Also we were mentioned in newspapers ?Nedjeljni vijesnik?. 2 more small games Generation Stars released that year.
2004 Official releasing of our first commercial project
Although it seems as our least productive year, 2004 is remembered for releasing our first commercial project. In Shareware form on English language ?Gink in Trouble? was released. Also with 3 small Freeware games Panic Invaders was made and Yambo and Yambo 2 were merged into one game Yambo Extra. Also 2004 goes into history for it was then when we opened the domain name GenerationStars.com. This year is surely characterized as the beginning of professionalism under Edi?s leadership. Off course we had new people on board. Mate joined as a member and Igor Lalic as an associate.
2005 Generation Stars ? Games for new generations
This is the year of a turning-point. Accomplishments in this year by far most raised the ladder to a much higher level with much more quality and professionalism. There was work done as much as all these years. Not in one year before we made and released so many games, present on whole Internet, mentioned in the press, Internet portals and even on TV!
- New Games
Gold Seeker, Speedy Lander, GS Inspector, Quiz Tac Toe, RetroQ and 5 ?1 Key? games were released. So there were 10 games, amazing! We also made localization on Croatian language for four our games, and also our website.
- GS goes retail
Together with opening of our Association under Croatian name ?Zvijezde Generacije? with the permission to use English name ?Generation Stars? we found a co-publisher and a distributor for Croatian market, Conor Ltd. In co-operation with Conor Ltd we released ?Gink u nevolji? (Gink in Trouble) together with four more Freeware games. Released and put in sale that is. Big co-operations with respectable companies are made. Companies like Iskon Internet and Log IT, and off course many other.
- Media
Media that mention us are: Novi List twice, Jutarnji List, Poslovni Semafor, Ri News, PC Chip. PC Play puts a record number of our games on theirs DVD, no less than 6. Milos is invited as a collocutor on Serbia and Monte Negro?s TV station. He was invited to talk about what else than game development. Numerous Internet portals talk about publishing Gink and other games. Iskon.hr, teen385.com, besplatne-stvari.com, odlikasi.hr, e-rijeka.com, mama-mami.com and dozen other write about releasing newest Croatian game ?Gink u nevolji?. On dozen of foreign portals a press release shows up saying we released ?Gink in Trouble?. Media on numerous occasions ask for our opinion and they value it. This is a big pleasure, but also a commendation and respect.
- New members
With new members Nikola and Ivana, team is richer for a new associate Denis. Team also gained a lot in reactivated Goran who came back to teams base in Rijeka. While team gained with Goran, he certainly lost with reduced activity in Dragan who is now working only as an associate. 2005 stays remembered with biggest traffic, like in everything, so it was with members.
- Records
Absolutely every existing record was broken in this year. Visiting records, new users, number of posts on our web site and on our forum. Records in sales, released games, new members, mentioning in the media, number of downloads of our games. Shortened, if there was a record it got broken in this year!
Your friend from our forum
Goran Duskic
Generation Stars Association