I’ve been looking forward to writing about the Game Boy Advance for a long time, because in the dim and distant past I was actually part of a team that was making a GBA game – a shoot-’em-up called Terra Galactica, inspired by games like Thunder Force IV, Sol-Feace and Silpheed. I was just a tester and the writer of the development diary though, with the real talent found elsewhere.
The project started off in the early Noughties as a PC game built with Multimedia fan games, and was just this random afternoon project,” says Dave Fleming. “I’ll make a quick space shooter in a week, it’ll be fun!” Jay Faulkner was the first person to join the project. “[Dave] posted on, I can’t remember which forum it was, saying, ‘Does anyone want to do some art for me?’” A demo of the PC version was released in the summer of 2003, and continued development through 2004.
