Category: Scene News
For all of us that have overlapping interest in game design and retro gaming, the GDC 2018 will hold an interesting presentation: Classic Game Postmortem: ‘The Bard’s Tale I and II’. Michael Cranford, the designer of the iconic RPG series first launched in 1985 will be the speaker. This session will explore the conception and development of Interplay’s ‘The Bard’s Tale…
Xentax Foundation had let us know that a new production batch of the FM-YAM, a sound expander compatible cartridge, will be available soon and you can reserve yours now. FM-YAM will add 9 FM sound channels to the C64, enabling mixing with the 3 SID channels. Here are the main features: Supports YM3812 or YM3526 (via sockets) YM3812 included single unit…
Dracula’s Castle is a new platform game for the Commodore 64. Released by MP Software, the game is based/ported on an old BASIC game, released in 1985. Although the graphics are mostly the same, the MP Software’s version is coded in assembler. The premise is simple: the hero has to collect the crucifixes and the key in order to open…
As the ZX Spectrum Next boards leave the assembly line and head to the hands of the backers that opted for the board-only, Carlos Henrique Olifiers thought it would be very important to have a guide ready before the users receive their units. The ZX Spectrum Next board 2A is the first public version of the platform. It’s a bare…
MSXDev’17 has come to an end and the organization posted the results by category: MSX Classic WINNER: XSpelunker! XSpelunker: 8.3/10 Draconic Throne: 8.2/10 Tales of Popolon: 7.6/10 Mazogs: 5.86/10 Slime Center: 5.7/10 Magical Tower Adventure: 4.4/10 Andrea Petkovic Torneo de Tenis: 3.8/10 SKULLrs: 2.6/10 [vsw id=”-7O2Bz_6Oc8″ source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] MSX Freestyle WINNER: ΧΙ∧∃Χ! ΧΙ∧∃Χ (Zevimodoki): 7.04/10 Sweet Punch: 5/10 Other…
We were contacted by Robert Hurst about a project he’s behind aiming the revival of a BBS Door game. Here is what he has to say about it: “One of the first BBSes we had in our state of Rhode Island was The Roundtable, which was more of an online game for social networking rather than the files & posts that…
David Fox is a game designer and programmer that worked on some of LucasArts’ most memorable games, as well as the new Thimbleweed Park. AJ and Joerg talk to him about his history in the games industry, and his experience coming back to the point-and-click adventure genre. Website: scene.world
VCF East XII happened earlier this year and if you weren’t able to attend in person, you can now watch the presentations on YouTube. Presentations like the Vintage Computing with Raspberry Pi with Dave Test, Commodore PET Repair with Todd George, Apple II Repair with Corey Cohen and many others are now part of the VCF YouTube channel. We are thrilled to see that…
CPCRetroDev 2017 submissions deadline was October 31st and a total of 29 entries made on time for the game development competition for the Amstrad CPC 464. The jury is now working hard to analyze and judge all the awesome games and getting ready for the award ceremony that will be held on next Friday, November 10th, around ~19:00h (CEST time). The…
How about celebrating Halloween playing a high-quality ZX Spectrum game deeply inspired by classics like Cybernoid, Equinox and Druid!? Meet Sophia, a game where you are a young master wizard girl on a mission to save the Empire from destruction and humanity from enslavement! The game presents the following features: 4 levels 85 screens 20 different enemy sprites 5 tunes Final boss…
