Tag: Game competition
Yandex Retro Games Battle is a game development contest, organized by the Yandex Museum that brought to life amazing games for the ZX Spectrum, like Marsmare: Alienation and White Jaguar. If released in the 80s, these games would have made the developers rich folks and the blockbusters of the time look not so incredible as our memory tells us! This…
This year’s ABBUC Atari Software competition brought nothing less than 13 games (12 and one demo, to be precise) comprised of a wide variety of themes and genres. I’ve played them all, and I can tell that every one of them shows the developer passion for the Atari XL/XE family of computers. I am personally fond to shoot’em ups. Notice…
Bubbo World is the third entry participating on MSXDev’15 compo. It is a platform/action game where the main objective is to collect the gold while avoiding the rocks falling from the top. The hero, besides running around, can drop ladders to reach other areas or teleport to a random position on the screen. There are dead ends where the falling…
To make things more interesting, English Amiga Board and Lemon Amiga have teamed up to hold a competition involving five games where high scores are chased over several weeks until an ultimate winner emerges. To make the competitors life easier, Erik Hogan put together a compilation containing the games for the compo.It’s a Knockout! 2015-2016 Amiga CD32 Compilation has been released including the…
Forum 64 has released the rules for its new game competition 2016. The theme is “strategy games”. The competition will run from January 1st to Oct 31st 2016, but the registration has to be done until Dec 31st of this year. The forum thread explains the definition of Strategy games, and what will be accept. You can read all the…
#CPCRetroDev 2015 has ended with one of the greatest results in years for all the Amstrad community. A total of 35 games were presented, and most of them being really high quality. The winner is ‘Space Moves’, followed by Frogalot and Top Top. For the CPC retro gamers out there, this is a very long list of amazing games to…
Edge of Time is a new game, the first one released for the ‘Sideways SEUCK Game Creation Compo 2015’. It was developed by Alf Yngve, with music created by Richard Bayliss (TND) using SEUCK. As the compo name suggest, the game is a side-scroller but with an interesting twist: you don’t control one hero, but two at the same time….
[youtube cictUOfIJwA nolink] Great news coming directly from subreddit Retrobattlestations: The CPCRetroDev is a yearly game development competition held in Spain. The competition aims at discovering talented developers by asking them to develop retro games for 80’s machines. As you retrodevelopers know, computational limitations are a key factor for fostering creativity and encouraging new technical achievements and discoveries. Contest platform…
