Category: Game Development Contests

Announcing the 2023 Writing Contest “Vintage is the New Old” – The contest for the rest of us!

Are you a retro computing and gaming enthusiast? Are you always amazed how some people can create AAA games for old platforms while others can understand electronics and put modern hardware accessories on the market, giving new life to our old machines? Do you feel left out when you see game programming, graphics, demos, or hardware contests happening all the…

2023 Basic 10Liner Contest is On!

It is that time of the year when we all get excited about BASIC, but only if it is restricted to 10 lines of code! And, for the third time, I am honoured to be part of the judging panel! Once again, you can show off all your skill in writing compact BASIC code for the 2023 Basic 10Liner contest,…

Planeta Sinclair has announced the nominees for the 2022 Game of The Year

After having announced the judging panel (here), Planeta Sinclair posted the list of all games that will run for “best of” in different categories, including the most important: GOTY. To elect the nominees, first, the judges had to go through a list of 130 names and vote for five favourites (10 for GOTY). The result of this list is what…

The results for the 2022 “Beauty and the Beast” programming contest for the TRS-80 has been announced

(Article partially reproduced from trs8bit newsletter) This year’s competition centred on the popular Wordle 5-letter word guessing game. There were two ways to enter: write a version of Wordle for your favourite TRS-80 (the “Beauty” section) or show us how well the Wordle dictionary and answer list can be compressed (“Beast” section). Before getting into the winners, I’d like to…

Lilly’s Saga – The Stones of Evergreen wins MSXdev’22 – Check the results!

MSXdev’22 is over, and all results are in. The always-successful contest nailed again! With 32 games, the judges had a really hard time picking the best ones, but after several days of deliberation, the grand prize went to Lilly’s Saga – The Stones of Evergreen, gathering 572 out of 600 points. According to the MSXdev post, “The jury was well…