Category: Homebrew Games News
Ingo “1NG” Boller just put up on sale the digital version of the game Jim Slide, winner of the ABBUC 2015 Game Development Contest. The “Personal Digital Edition” costs only 5 euros and the buyer with receive the 48-level game via email. Also, in a nice touch, the author will customize the game intro screen with your name. To buy…
The Atariage RetroGamer128 has announced a new magazine dedicated to the Atari 7800. There are over 50 pages of content, exclusive interviews, info on lost games (including a game nobody knew about!), reviews, tips & cheats, archives, features and more! RetroGamer128 mentions that the first issue is digital as a PDF file, but if there is enough demand we do…
DannieGeeko has released a new Boulderdash game, called Thirteen. The theme for this game is horror. You can select any of the 13 caves. There is also a file called 13NOTE which gives you all the names of the caves. Link: Lemon64 Forum Download: TinyUpload
We all know that it is almost certain that video-game adaptations for the big screen will be terrible (Pixel?). Also last year, in a wave of incredibility, it was announced that a live-action ‘epic sci-fi movie’ based on Tetris was being developed, but this time we are talking about another movie, more in the lines of Social Network. The film…
A2Server is the Apple II is a file server and network boot host for Apple II computers for the Raspberry PI. The author, Ivan Drucker has announced that the new version has bug fixes and also the latest GS/OS releases. The author’s website also contains downloads for Raspple II, an easy-to-install distro for the PI, containing both A2Server and A2Cloud. Link:…
Atariteca brought to our attention the release of Saboteur! for the Atari, ported from the original Commodore 64 version. The hero is a ninja who must infiltrate a warehouse and retrieve a disk containing the names of rebel leaders. Along the way, you will face enemies heavily armed and dogs. The game is available for free but you can check…
Richard Bayliss from The New Dimension (SEUCK Compo, SID, Graphics, you know the guy) posted updates about his upcoming project – Alien Invasion. Friday, 13th wasn’t a good day for him as he lost his hard drive, but thankfully he could find a recent backup and was able to keep working! he deadline is about 2 months and a half…
Atariage user Ramses let us know about this video of the Atari programmers panel from the Portland Expo 2015. It includes Bob Smith, Tod Frye, Rob Zdybel, and Howard Scott Warshaw. Anyone interested in retro game development should watch it. Really interesting. [youtube YLoJ5jcccPU nolink] On a side note, the video and sound are perfect, which is very rare in retro…
This new homebrew game released by Sik, offers fast paced action for up to four players (or Player vs. CPU) where you control one of the balls racing through the maze to gather the forming stars. The game lacks sound, but still offers great fun for the Mega Drive fans. You can download it for free following the link below….
Wiebo de Wit has released a new post of his serie “Tetris in 6502 Assembler” for the Commodore 64. On this article he tackles the generation of random numbers and the keyboard input. Although the article is focused on the C64, the techniques are applicable for all 6502-based machines. It is worth checking this and all the previous articles. Link:…
