Talk:Mr. Nutz: Hoppin' Mad

Does anyone know which Amiga Games Discs & Mag issue mentions Timet?

I'm trying to find sources for the "Development" section. As far as I can tell, the claim that this game started out as Timet is supported by an article in an early-90s issue of the German magazine Amiga Games Discs & Mag. There is a website with the contents of the article but no formal citation, and a YouTube video with a screenshot of the magazine page but also no formal citation. Since it seems like the article does really exist, I'd love to be able to cite the specific issue and ideally the page number, but so far I haven't come up with anything that specific. Mesocarp (talk) 06:46, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Well, actually, I just noticed that the page number is 91 judging by the screenshot in the video, but that still leaves the question of the issue itself. Mesocarp (talk) 06:50, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

I don't think Kaiko was involved with this game

Aside from the elusive Amiga Games article I mentioned above, which I still haven't been able to track down in an actual copy of the magazine, I don't see any reference to Kaiko being involved with this game anywhere in print. All the magazine articles actually used as sources in this article only credit the game to Neon, and the Amiga Games article I did track down to a citeable extent appears to say outright that the developers only started on Timet after they left Kaiko. What's more, although I wouldn't cite this in the main article, I found a fan blog which claims to have heard the same thing from Peter Thierolf via email. All of this suggests to me that we should remove the references to Kaiko as a contributing developer in this article and credit the game solely to Neon, which I'll do if no one objects. As far as I can tell, the confusion around this stems from the fact that the developers were well-known as members of Kaiko before they formed Neon. Mesocarp (talk) 04:59, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Well, okay, I went ahead and removed the Kaiko credit. If we find solid sources that clearly state the game was started at Kaiko and moved to Neon or something like that, we can amend the article to that effect, but everything I've actually managed to track down indicates that work on it only started after the former Kaiko developers were already at Neon. Mesocarp (talk) 03:03, 25 May 2023 (UTC)