Category: Homebrew Games News

Atari Game Designer – Create your own Atari 8-bit games

Atari is well served by different languages allowing people to create amazing games for the platform, with Action being one of the most notorious for game development. However, for a lot of gamers that have ambition to create their own retro games, learning programming language is something hard to grasp. To fill this void, Vladimir “Popmilo” Jankovic has been developing…

TOSEC gets new update – Commodore Edition!

TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) has been updated focusing on Commodore systems, with contributions to C64 by Duncan Twain and Amiga by Crashdisk, cataloguing new software and updating existent sets to fix naming errors. For people looking forward to updates for other platforms, the TOSEC team states that other systems are being worked on, namely MSX (by VG8020), Tangerine…

RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition Update

As pointed out by RGCD itself, it is been a long time since we’ve heard about the ’16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition’, but today they finally sent out the current status. Basically, there are 8 entries, but only 4 of them seems to have some activity with the developers sending information and a screenshot of the games. Actually, one of them, Vortex…

JANI – New C64 SEUCK game reminds 'The Legend of Zelda'

JANI is a new game for the Commodore 64 made with S.E.U.C.K (Shoot’em Up Construction Kit). The nice thing about this one is the different take the the developer took, making it look a lot like games like Legend of Zelda and Pokemon, at least in terms of the graphics used. The gameplay is pretty much the standard Shoot’em with…

Upcoming Amiga game 'The Dream of Rowan' gets playable demo

The Amiga game ‘The Dream of Rowan’ Kickstarter campaign still has 3 days until it ends and although it seems won’t meet the target, the developers put out today a work in progress demo of the game. If you were on the fence about backing the project, maybe playing the demo will help you make up your mind. Independent of the outcome,…

2015 Commodore 64 Sideways SEUCK Compo has a winner!

The 2015 Sideways SEUCK compo came to an end. Although counting only with three contestants, the competition was fierce due to the high quality of all three games. With 79 votes the winner is PAN!, followed by U-91306 Eidothea with 76 votes. The third place, grabbing 72 votes, was Edge of Time. I shot three short videos of the gameplay of all…

'New Years Disc 2016' – Atari Demoscene Pack

To celebrate 2016, it was released a new edition of the ‘New Years Disc’ by the Atariage user ‘pps’. It is a 5-disc compilation of great graphics, demos, games and music put together for your entertainment. The contents of the pack: Disc 1 – multidisc (Enhanced/Medium Density) ——————————————– Getting into 2016 (3 screener) by miker & PPs Chi Bao (sound)…

Retrochallenge 2016/01 Competition Has Started

Officially starting on January 1st, Retrochallenge ‘Winter Warmup edition’ is again running full speed. The competition will run from January 1st to the end of the month. Blog entries should be complete by midnight on Sunday 31st January GMT. If you are still thinking on participating, email mark at wickensonline dot co dot uk with your name (or handle) a brief synopsis of…

ANARCHO RIDE – Arcade Racing for the Atari STE/Falcon

With the short and compelling instruction – Crash everything that gets in your way. Collect points for that. Exchange the points and bonuses for cute hearts. And go and buy more cars and tracks in the flower shop – Anarcho Ride is an arcade game in its roots. Developed in GFA-BASIC the game shows bright colours and fast-paced action. A nice…

Petscii-Poker 2016 – Game for the Commodore 64 gets update

Petscii-Poker, developed by the group Software of Sweden, was released a while back and now has been updated delivering faster gameplay and also miscellaneous bug fixes. As the name suggest, it is a poker game that uses PETSCII characters to represent the graphics, with very impressive results. The background music is another welcome touch that creates a nice mood to…