Category: Indie Games News
The Commodore 64, as one of the most popular computers of all time, is never short of great games released every year, and 2022 was no exception. To help celebrate the C64 retro gaming scene, Retro Gamer Nation has posted a video with the results of the C64 Gamers’ Choice Award 2022. The best games were picked by an exceptional…
SHMUP! Kai was released two years ago by Imanok, one of the most talented MSX developers out there. Now, he decided to make the game available for free. If you look at the gameplay video below, you can see that SHMUP! Kai is a game at the same level as Zeta Wing for the Commodore 64 or many commercial games…
Hyperdrive is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up game for the Amstrad CPC with 64K of RAM or more and the GX4000. The game offers classic shoot’em up action with a smooth one-pixel scroll at 25 frames per second, not often experienced on the Amstrad CPC. Hyperdrive implements the power-up system seen in Uchūsen Gamma (MSX, 2019; by the same author)….
NesDev Compo is a game development competition that has been a staple of the NES Homebrew community for over 10 years. The 2022 edition just ended, and the winners have been announced – which means you have a lot of new games to play! Michael Sharpe, member of the Team Disposable, who participated in the compo with the game “They…
In our new podcast episode we are talking with Giulia Valentini and Fabrizio Rizzi from Smallthing Studios who are developing a brand new Simon The Sorcerer game! Enjoy and watch out for Simon The Sorcerer Origins! It’s an official prequel to the original Simon the Sorcerer game and transports players back to a few weeks before the events of the…
Hokuto Force has released an enhanced version of Dig Dug, one of my favourite games for the C64 (I’ve played a lot on the arcades back in the day, to be honest!). In addition to the NTSC speed option, the team took the time to fix some bugs in the original game and focus on features that would be appreciated…
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…
In our new episode we talk with Yannick Belzil – script writer for the new Turtles game Shredder’s Revenge by Dotemu and Tribute Games! This brawler for PS4, Switch, Xbox and PC Steam has a lot in common with the classic TMNT games ‘Turtles In Time’ and ‘Hyperstone Heist’, but also adds many quirky new ideas… Cowabunga! Interview starts at…
I learned about this game just a few years ago, and it took me so much time to learn how to leave the hangar! But after I managed to do that, the game is super fun and well made. Today, Lucas Carrafiello announced the availability of the game for the Plus/4. Follow the announcement verbatim: It’s the day! The new…
Lost Games is a compilation of 4 games, resurrected from tape, that Andy “Cosmium” Beale wrote in 1983. You might remember Cosmium when he released the excellent Quadron a few years ago. Although they didn’t make the cut with the publishers at the time, Cosmium thinks these compiled BASIC 16K games were quite fun for the era, and he decided to…
