Category: Retro Gaming
A challenging, procedurally generated, roguelite twin-stick shooter for the Classic Amiga platform! The wizards have been at it again, and this time they’ve accidentally opened Hell Portals under the castle! Now it’s up to you, brave, brave Sir Declan, to delve into each procedurally generated castle dungeon and find enough magical shards to access and close its portal. Features Minimum…
Following up our podcast episode #154 (http://scene.world/stsorigins) last year, we had the pleasure to meet again designer Fabrizio Rizzo (@The_Ink_Wolf) from @SmallthingStds at #gamescom, talking about the direction the saga is taking: Simon The Sorcerer Origins is going to be a pre-quel to the 1993 Amiga / DOS PC game and even in the interview the designer tells about how…
PunyInform is a library for the Inform 6 programming language, to make it easy to create simple or advanced text adventures which will work well on 8-bit computers like the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Spectrum +3 etc. PunyInform was first released on July 5, 2020. The rootsThe Inform programming language, compiler and standard library were developed by Graham…
Octopus is a Game & Watch game released as part of the Wide Screen series on July 16, 1981. In this game, the player must get as much gold as they can. However, they must watch out for the Octopus near the treasure because if they touch its arms, they lose a life. Losing all three lives results in a…
Montezuma’s Revenge is a 1984 platform game for the Atari 8-bit family, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM PC and ZX Spectrum (as Panama Joe). Back in the day Zdenda ZZubr always dreamt of programming his own version of Montezuma. Many years later, now in his 50’s, Zdenda has finally made his own dreams come true….
The evil Doctor Jose Antonio Malvado is trying to turn all the citizens of WeepingTown into mutants! Help Batmanolo stop him! Your suit is ruined but you can recover it for a little while and be more resistant, jump higher and throw your weapon to discover hidden rooms or paralyze enemies. Gather all the mutagen that’s spread all around WeepingTown,…
Clube MSX is starting this Monday (07/03) the pre-sale of My Sacred Place and The 4 Masters of Melody Ex in cartridge for MSX. Each game comes with a box, manual and gifts and can now be purchased in the Clube MSX virtual store for R$ 179.00 (promotional price for each game) plus shipping costs (international orders must be made…
We’re back with a new episode of our podcast and this time we welcome Francisco Gonzáles from Grundislav Games. They are known for indie adventure games like Lamplight City, Shardlight or A Golden Wake + Ben Jordan. Currently Francisco is working on his new game ‘Rosewater’ and we’re happy to get some insights. Enjoy! Interview starts at 13:05 minutes! Listen…
Author: Francis Blais Date: April 28th, 2023 Category: Non-technical Growing up in Quebec, Canada, as a 90’s kid hooked on 8-bit video games, had its share of unique moments. For starters, I’m old enough to have lived the video store experience. Not the clean and abundant Blockbuster or Vidéotron experience; the small town, back-of-the-convenience-store one, with two small shelves of…
Following the success of Zeta Wing, Sarah Jane Avory has just released a second game in the series! Zeta Wing 2 is a fun vertical shoot-em-up for the Commodore 64, sequel to Zeta Wing, itself the winner of both the RGN Gamers’ Choice Award 2020 for the Commodore 64, and Indie Retro News Budget Game Of The Year 2020. Story:…
