Tag: Arcade Game Designer

Jonathan Cauldwell releases a custom ROM for the ZX Spectrum with built-in Arcade Game Designer (AGD)!

Jonathan Cauldwell, the father of the Arcade Game Designer and the Multi-Platform Arcade Game Designer, wrote me this morning to tell me he has just released a custom ZX Spectrum ROM that runs AGD, freeing up the entire Spectrum RAM for users’ games. Because of that, games can naturally be much bigger than before. The new ROM is written from…

Last Train to Tranz-Central – A new ZX Spectrum game is now available for download

Quantum Sheep, the author of Jumpin’ Jupiter has released Last Train to Tranz-Central, a new game for the ZX Spectrum 48k/128k. Although in essence, the game is a puzzle-platformer where you grab collectibles while avoiding the enemies, its setting conveys an old-school Run ‘n’ Gun arcade game, which makes it pretty unique compared to some other great recent releases for…

Jumpin’ Jupiter – A new game (or two!) for the ZX Spectrum

Quantum Sheep has announced the immediate availability of Jumpin’ Jupiter, a new platform game for the ZX Spectrum. Int the game, you play Jupiter, and your objective is to find all cups of tea that have been scattered across the solar system. Heavily inspired in Manic Miner, the game relies on your ability to avoid the enemies and environmental hazards…

Multi Platform Arcade Game Designer – Retro Game development within everybody’s reach

Arcade Game Designer or AGD is a well-known ZX Spectrum game engine developed by Jonathan Cauldwell that makes much easier the task to develop a game for the 8-bit computer. The proof of its vert smooth learning curve is the hundreds of games already developed using AGD. We here, on ViTNO, have posted news about many of them just to…

Ninja Gardening Simulator – New Homebrew game for the ZX Spectrum

By now, everybody knows that the Arcade Game Designer (AGD) has been helping many developers to bring new games for the ZX Spectrum (and also Amstrad CPC, Coco/Dragon) in an incredible rate and excellent quality. Yesterday, another game showed up in the AGDx Facebook Group and caught my attention by its simplicity and the arcady feeling that it brings: Ninja…

AGDx Studio – ZX Spectrum’s Arcade Game Designer gets brand-new IDE for Windows (Updated)

As you might know, Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer (AGD) is a game engine tool that makes easier to develop games for the ZX Spectrum. Although AGD is one of the best game engines around for retro computers, it runs on a ZX Spectrum hence it is constrained by the machine’s limitations. This week, Tony Thompson has announced on the…

AGDx Christmas Code Jam 2018 – A collaborative game in the making

Allan Turvey has announced on the AGDx Facebook Group the Christmas Code Jam 2018, where a Christmas-theme game will be created using as many hands as possible. AGDx group is a spin-off from the official Arcade Game Design group with the objective to discuss technical challenges, modding, patches and the current progress with AGDX Studio, which by itself is an expanded…

New Russian Speccy Platformer Lost in Worlds Released!

Lost in Worlds is a new cutesy Russian platformer by Nihirash. The first (and hopefully not the last) game by coder Alexander Sharikhin, Lost in Worlds was created using the Platform Game Designer engine, which was released in 2005 by Jonathan Cauldwell, also the creator of AGD, currently the most used game creation engine for the ZX Spectrum. In Lost…

All Hallows: Rise of the Pumpkin, John Blythe’s New AGD Speccy Game is Coming!

Something for later in the year ALL HALLOWS – Rise of the Pumpkin. Utilizing Andy Johns code. A barmy bouncing platformer will emerge.. You play the Pumpkin and you have noticed the dark tower as awoken! It can mean only one thing. The Dark Forest Lord is preparing to break free from his 1000 years of imprisonment! You must reactivate…

Vitno Exclusive! Nixy The Glade Sprite! A Brand New ZX Spectrum platformer by Andy Johns Released!

Thursday we shared News about Nixy The Glade Sprite, which is Andy Johns brand new ZX Spectrum platformer. Today we have some exciting exclusive News to share! Nixy The Glade Sprite is now officially released and you can download it right now, here at Vintage is the New Old! Andy has also announced his new website for current and future…