Category: Homebrew Games News
Quantum Sheep, the author of Jumpin’ Jupiter has released Last Train to Tranz-Central, a new game for the ZX Spectrum 48k/128k. Although in essence, the game is a puzzle-platformer where you grab collectibles while avoiding the enemies, its setting conveys an old-school Run ‘n’ Gun arcade game, which makes it pretty unique compared to some other great recent releases for…
July 31st was the last day for MSX developers to submit their games to the MSXDev’20 game competition. Since our previous post about the compo, another five games made their way in and are now running for the best MSX game 2020. With many good games running, our attention fell on the last submission, Bloody Mary, a game developed by…
Chapters: 01 , 02 , 03. If you have seen my other project devlogs, you probably noticed I pull a lot inspiration from that title´s primeval computer. Yes it was were I self learned to do computer games, mostly with the aid of books and magazines from those times. After finishing The Outhouse game, which mimics the COCO´s semigraphics 4…
Like I mentioned in my previous article about MSXDev’20, with the deadline approaching, more and more contestants are adding their games to the competition. The fifteenth entry is the MSX port of l’Abbaye des Morts, developed by RetroDeluxe (Enric Geijo), based on the original by Locomalito and music by Gryzor87. l’Abbaye des Morts is a platform game where you play…
It is not a new thing to create new games based on classic arcade. Just look around on the Internet, and you will see the hundreds of Space Invaders, Pac-Man’s, Centipedes, and so on. Creating clones of these games is one of the best ways to get started in game development, for example, since the gameplay is usually well-defined and…
MSXDev’20 started slow, with one game here and there, which is natural since most people would start coding their games after the compo is announced. However, with the submission deadline fast approaching, nine new games were submitted in the span of a few days! With the new contestants, the MSX enthusiasts have fourteen new games to play and get properly…
Remute in partnership with Protovision is back with a new Commodore 64 music/game bundle. This is a great chance to buy very good C64 games for cheap and get also a super cool techno music album by Remute. The games can run on a real C64, TheC64 mini / maxi or any C64 emulator on any system, like C64 Forever…
Greenboy Games is a one-man studio that has only one objective: make games for the classic Nintendo Gameboy. Behind that studio is Dan Puch, a hobbyist game developer that is passionate about the 4-shades-of-green little screen handheld. While my first idea was to write about his work, last week we talked and later he sent me via email some answers…
The New 8-bit Heroes, creators of NESMaker have announced the 2020 edition of the Byte-Off game development competition. NESMaker is an Integrated Environment for PC that allows you to create NES games even with no programming experience. For more advanced users, the tool still saves development time while being flexible enough to allow machine language code to be added to…
The 2020 Reset64 4kb ‘Craptastic’ Game Compo came to an end and published the contestants’ entries as a single package on itch.io. The competition hosted by Reset64 Magazine received 37 entries and based on the screenshots alone, the quality is very high. If you are not aware of the competition, don’t be fooled by the name! As the organizers explain:…
