CARBON TESTING
Josh Fairhurst and Dimitris Giannakis on creating a new retro engine for Switch
» Josh plans to let others use the Carbon Engine, but it will take a while. “We don’t currently have the support bandwidth to handle helping developers just yet.”
LimitedRun Games started off by selling physical PS Vita releases of its own games, before expanding to other developers as well as other systems like the PS4, Switch and even the odd Sega CD release. After testing the waters with several revered LucasArts IPs, including Monkey Island and Star Wars, the publisher has now started to release numerous Game Boy titles and has even created a brand-new engine that lets you play emulated Game Boy games on the Switch. The first Switch release is WayForward’s Shantae, but cofounder of Limited Run Games, Josh Fairhurst hopes that more releases are on the way.
One of the key factors of the new engine is the collaboration between Limited Run’s engineer, Joe Modzeleski and Dimitris Giannakis who is better known as Youtube’s Modern Vintage Gamer. “Joe had seen a lot of Dimitris’ videos on YouTube and had found one where Dimitris had ported the original Diablo to Switch for fun in his spare time,” says Josh. “This impressed us and it was clear that Dimitris would be the perfect person to help us with our Carbon Engine.”