Category: Homebrew Games News

Hokuto Force Releases Digger for the Commodore 64

We’ve been keeping our eyes on the latest C64 scene updates over at CSDb.dk and Digital Monastery – the games development arm of Hokuto Force –  has just released it’s own version of Digger for the C64! Coded by Sergey Borodavkin and with graphics by David Vigh and Sergey, the game is a conversion of a title originally developed by…

The making of Baba’s Palace – 2017 CPCRetroDev Winners tell the story behind the game development

Baba’s Palace won the last edition of #CPCRetroDev and the victory was well deserved. If you play the game (you gonna play it!), it is fair to say that if it had been released in the 80’s, Rafa Castillo and John McKlain would be swimming in a pool of money because the game would’ve sold a lot! When playing the game,…

Arkanoid: Revenge of DOH, Coming to the Atari Jaguar!

Arkanoid: Revenge of DOH is coming to the Atari Jaguar! CyranoJ over on AtariAge Forums recently shared a new update video, which you can watch below. Thanks to Dr Clu, we now have the ST, Amiga, Arcade and NES audio. Effects and music can be selected individually, so you could have, eg, Arcade music with Amiga sound effects! Jagpad, Rotary,…

Inviyya Amiga Shoot’em Up Demo Released!

Early February I shared some News about an upcoming Amiga Shoot’em Up called Inviyya by Tigerskunk. A demo of the game was released for Revision 2018, which came 4th place. You can now download the demo for yourself and have a play. The game should run happily on an Amiga 500 OCS/ECS with at least 1 mb of RAM, Kickstart…

Kev Mcg’s Teases His New AGD Speccy Game, Savage Princess

Kev Mcg over on the AGD Facebook Group, recently shared another teaser of his upcoming Speccy game titled “Savage Princess”. Rather than a cutesy approach, Kev has chosen deep blues, depicting a dark and cold dungeon in which the main character, a beautiful princess, casts off her shackles, and begins to plan her escape route. This will be no easy…

Alfonzo Arctic Adventure, New Eskimo Bob Sequel Demo Released! (NES)

Alfonzo Arctic Adventure is an upcoming NES sequel to Eskimo Bob. Eskimo Bob was a Kickstarter project than ran last year, smashing it’s goal (CA$ 22,140 pledged of CA$ 7,000 goal). The game is based on the Eskimo Bob flash cartoons and features 64 levels, 15 enemy types, two playable characters, two support characters, and a fully functional password system….

Rescuing Orc, Commodore 64, ViTNO Game Review

Are you drawn to games with cute colorful retro graphics and a seemingly basic game play premise only to find yourself in damnation where you curse the developer’s name under your breath as you scream out your frustration as to the unfairness of what plays out on screen? If so, then usebox.net and poly.play have developed and released a game…

Reidrac’s Dawn of Kernel promises to be one slick shoot ’em up for Amstrad CPC fans!

Amstrad CPC fans will soon have cause to celebrate since we learned that  Juan J. Martinez (Reidrac) is hard at work on his latest project, The Dawn of Kernel, along with artistic contributions from Dylan Barry (loading and title screens). Set in the reaches of outer space on planet K3E-NL, disaster strikes when the outbreak of a computer virus manages…

Vortex Crystals, Commodore 64, ViTNO Game Review

Sometime in the near distant future, our scientists travel to the planet Vektor and discover a form of energy crystals that will help protect mankind from future alien invasions. The Scientists all agreed that the crystals should be brought back to Earth and stored in a complex 16 level security system for safe keeping. Great idea right? Well there are…

Bomb Jack Beer Edition For Amiga, Beta 4A Released!

Beta 4a of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been just been released today. For more information about the game, check through our older posts and the EAB thread link below. Here’s another update – Beta 4A. In this build I’ve made a huge change and added memory management to the game. The game still…