Tag: competition

2023 ATASCII Competition

You always hear about ASCII, ANSI and PETSCII. So why not a special competition for Atari’s ATASCII?Join this fun event! Create your own ATASCII Art and enjoy the limits of Retro Computing!This event is online only. Submission of entries starts from 1st October until the 19th October. For more details and prizes follow this link: http://logiker.com/ATASCII

PunyJam #2: Let’s write a text adventure!

We held a PunyInform game jam in April/May and it was a great success, so now we’re doing it again. Each participant (a person, a pair or a team) writes their own text adventure using the PunyInform library. If you’ve thought of writing a text adventure but need an event and a time frame for it to actually happen, this…

Christmas Competition! Win an SD2IEC!

It’s nearly Christmas, so we thought what better way to celebrate the end of 2019 than with a cool competition! Yes that right, we are holding a competition with Future was 8bit to win a C64 SD2IEC and a Fast cart! The competition is being held on our second Twitter account @CommodoreBlog. To grab a chance of winning, please read…

Kronbits Demake JAM 2018 results are in!

The Kronbits 2018 Demake JAM is over, the entries have been ranked, and the results are now all online at Itch.io for gamers to enjoy! The competition yielded a total of 71 submissions – far too many to cover here – and the quality is staggeringly good, especially when considering the limited development time allowed! The aim of the competition…

Next RetroChallenge of 2018 Starts in September

After a bit of contemplation and casual polling, John W. Linville has announced that the second RetroChallenge for 2018 will take place in September instead of October. Well, I’ve suggested it, hinted at it, circulated it, and done everything but announce it. Now, here it is: the next RetroChallenge event will occur during the month of September in 2018. Henceforth,…

RetroKomp 2016 Results

Results are in for the RetroKomp RetroGamedev Compo, which took place on 25 September 2016. First place was VilQ, a nice little Sega Megadrive platformer. Download all of the entries below ;) 1st: VilQ, SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive, [dwnld] 2nd: Bridge Strike demo by Project R3D, Amiga OCS/ECS [dwnld] 3rd: Trionoids, Atari Falcon 030 [dwnld] 4th : Small Cars Drag Race…

2016 C64 4kb Game Coding Competition

The 2016 Reset C64 4KB Game Coding Competition has ended, below are all the entries. Download these fantastic games all squeezed into 4 Kilobytes! (We particularly love Goblin by Pond Software :) Bonkey Kong by Pond, Privy Software [dwnld] Winky Blinky by Pond, Privy Software [dwnld] Lumberjack by Megastyle, Protovision [dwnld] Super Ski by Pond, Privy Software [dwnld] Dropout [dwnld]…

Pendragon Competition! – myAcornElectron.com

Stuart Johns over at myAcornElectron is running a competition to win signed artwork, drawn by Ben Hughes in September ’86 and also the mapping grids designed by Geoff Livesey in ’87. The wonderful ‘Adventures‘ column in Electron User ran from 1986 to 1990, taking over from ‘Merlin’s Cave‘. Pendragon, aka Nic Outterside, has kindly donated this fantastic artwork from 1986…

Das Camp [german] – Commodore 64

Das Camp is one of the games in the Forum64 Game Competition 2015. The game is an adventure and is released by TUGCS. Music by Onebitman and SIDWAVE, graphics by Mac, linking by Henning and bug fixing by Dizzy Devil. Forum64 Game Competition 2015. Website: CSDb

Win 3 Day Pass Tickets to PLAY Margate! Arcade, Indie & Retro Gaming Show!

We have two 3 day pass tickets for PLAY Margate worth £30 each, and we are going to raffle them out in order to cover part of the costs to run your beloved website. To participate, send us £2.00 for one number using the “Donate” button on the right. Donate multiples of £2.00 to increase your chances to win! On…