Using the same approach of NESMaker, GB Studio is a no-to-little-coding drag & drop visual too to create games for the Gameboy, allowing you to make real ROMs in minutes which can run on any emulator or even on a real GB! To make it even more appealing, the tools is free, open source and support macOS, Windows, and Linux!…
Habitat, and its final version Club Caribe, was one of the world’s first MMORPGs: an immersive, graphical, virtual world populated by C64 users in real time through the Quantumlink Network. Randy Farmer is one of the original architects of that world, and he remains involved in maintaining the project to this day. He joins AJ and Joerg to talk about…
My only participation in game development contests happened a few years ago in the BASIC 10-liner, where I managed to a very low score – the game wasn’t that good, to be honest. Despite that, this is one of the topics that most interest me. The interest comes from reasons. One is my thinking to try again to participate in…
The Crow Cousins (Daniel Henderson and Roby Sherman) have released a new graphic adventure for the Apple II, featuring beautiful low-resolution graphics using the double lowers mode of the Apple II. Murder Manor follows a similar plot and gameplay of a Clue game where you have to walk around, going to different places of the Screenhole Manor, interacting with objects…
Bitmap Soft is pleased to announce the availability of CPC Soccer: International Edition for the Amstrad CPC, developed by Israel Roman from Voxel Tower. CPC Soccer is a football/soccer simulation game that sees you take control of one of 20 international teams as you put them through their paces in either a friendly exhibition match or a knockout tournament consisting of…
The well-regarded ZEsarUX emulator reached version 9.0 bringing a foot-long list of new features and improvements, notably the addition to non-Sinclair machines like MSX, Colecovision, Spectravideo, and SEGA SG-1000. ZEsarUX is open-source and multiplatform, having off-the-shelf installers for Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry PI, and many others. Initially created to be a ZX Spectrum emulator, Cesar Hernandez’s program quickly extended its…
Now you can taste a Pokemon-like game running on a ZX Spectrum +3! The developer known as +3Code has created a J-RPG featuring ‘Poke’, a mutant cat that is very similar to the Nintendo’s most famous Pokemon. Who are we kidding, it is a 100% accurate copy :) The game was created using the +3 BASIC language and it is…
Chapters: 01 , 02 , 03. So far we were just testing non-purpose brute force semigraphics block pushing, but enough to get a direction to explore.Next step would be to get that direction aligned to some game design. I certainly now know that my skills with BASIC will be able to cut for a bunch of blocks in motion, so I need…
Neil “RetroManCave” Thomas is well-known by the retro gaming and computing community, mostly by his YouTube channel. Throughout the years, Neil has conducted many interviews on his YouTube channel – a series of videos entitled Retro Tea Breaks that help to tell the history of the video gaming industry for future generations. Complementing the popular video series, Neil has selected…
