Tag: C64 Homebrew Games
Once upon a time, young(er) Erik Hooijmeijer sent his new game to a publisher but he didn’t get any answer, only his disk back. For the lack of explanation, he just assumed the game was no good and gave up. After unburying his C64 after all these years, he found the once-rejected game and decided it was finally time to…
A new episode of Sprite Castle has been released. The featured game is the rogue-like Sword of Fargoal by Epyx. Sword of Fargoal was created by author and programmer Jeff McCord and based on his original dungeon adventure, Gammaquest II, which was programmed in BASIC for the Commodore PETcomputer and written in 1979-1981 while he was still in high school…
Knights of Bytes has announced that their upcoming (amazing) C64 game Sam’s Journey will be distributed by Protovision. According to the developers, Protovision has created a new box for all their future games, “a classic cardboard box which can be decorated with a printed cover. Inside the box, there will be one of two inlays that hold either some disks or a…
The article has been written exclusively for Commodore is Awesome/Vintage is The New Old by Eric “Majikeyric” Hilaire, tThe developer of ‘Bug Hunt’, one of the strongest entries on the 2016 RGCD 16K Game Cartridge Competition. In September 2015, I was looking for a little game to port to the Commodore computers (not only to C64 but also Amiga and VIC20). I’m…
We have talked about Sam’s Journey, a brand-new original scrolling platform game developed for the Commodore 64 home computer. It’s about a cute little hero called Sam who finds himself on an unexpected journey in a strange world. Knights of Bytes has release a new teaser video, showing the hero discover another costume that gives him a white cap and…
Commodore Free, a magazine about the C64, VIC-20, Amiga and all C= family of computers has released the issue 91, the first of 2016. The issue has plenty of news about all C= models plus some featured articles like a review for the book “10 PRINT”, an article about Algorithms for Commodore BASIC, and much more. You can download the magazine…
Reset Magazine issue #8 has just been released. The issue brings lots of articles, news and game reviews like of Daffy Duck, Heroes & Cowards, Knight ‘N’ Grail and much more. On the magazine website, you can also download the companion floppy containing Jump Ninja and Blap ‘n Bash, Nuclear Strike Force (they couldn’t stick a real disk on the PDF cover, sorry!)…
Many of RGCD formerly out-of-stock games are now available to buy again. Hot off the assembly line, Super Bread Box, Bomberland, C64anabalt, Guns ‘N’ Ghosts, Powerglove and Rocket Smash EX are back on the virtual shelves in our online store. There are also few remaining cartridges of P0 Snake and Gravitrix and after they are gone, there won’t be more available…
We reported about the excellent game ‘Time of Silence’ few weeks ago, and now its developer has released already the sequel. Well, in reality it could be called ‘Extended Edition’. The reason of this is because the first game was made short and several ideas and storytelling were left behind due to time constraints to meet the compo deadline. To…
Game development competitions are always fun to participate if you are a developer, and always fun to follow if you are a gamer looking for modern games for your beloved platform. Earlier this year we saw great games coming out of ABBUC’s Compo for Atari 8-bits and the CPCRetroDev compo that brought to us many more amazing games for the Amstrad…
