|  The Two Rogues! | | Posted by Csabo on 2022-12-29 |
 Another entry for the game dev compo: A Két Zsivány (The Two Rogues). It's the author's first game. Your task is the two guide two rogues (János and Mátyás, or John and Matthias if you will) through a series of cellars, and collect all the treasure. The unique twist is that you control (and must keep safe) both characters, and must switch between them back and forth with space.
Watch this YouTube video to see the gameplay, or just try the game yourself! |
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| | Stick Man! | | Posted by Csabo on 2022-12-26 |
 After many months of development, Epy is proud to present his first game: Stick Man!
The game is a platformer, somewhat reminiscent of Manic Miner, but with many new and interesting game elements. Your task is to walk, climb, jump, avoid and collect. Help the hero find the relics scattered around and ultimately escape from the clutches of the Evil Programmer who captured them. The game has been submitted to the still-running game dev compo. Enjoy!
As a bonus, Epy has also released his editor: Plus/4 Platform Game Editor. Finally, a couple of quick housekeeping notes: Kávégame has been released, the author's first program - a small BASIC game submitted for the same compo. Karácsony is a surprise old release from Pigmy, a never-before-seen oldie, but sure to check all of these out as well! |
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| | Intervallo! | | Posted by Csabo on 2022-12-24 |
 ern0, a true vanguard of the Commodore Plus/4 music programming (as the author of one of the earliest music player routines and several classic tunes) is back after 35 years with a new music-related game.
Test (or train!) your hearing and musical knowledge with Intervallo Plus4, a small game in which you have to correctly identify musical intervals. Can you tell apart a minor 3rd from a major 3rd? Only one way to find out... Enjoy! |
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| | Dizzy Three and a Half! | | Posted by Csabo on 2022-12-23 |
 The Christmas miracles continue: Ulysses777 is back to gift us a Plus/4 special: Dizzy Three and a Half! Another piece of the Dizzy series has been faithfully converted to the Plus/4; and this one comes with AY music.
This short adventure is meant to be a teaser for Dizzy 4 (Magicland Dizzy), and should be relatively easy to complete for anyone. Give it a try, it's a nice diversion, and big thanks to Ulysses777 for porting it! |
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| | Whirlybirds: X-Mas Looks Sooo DOOMed! | | Posted by Luca on 2022-12-22 |
 The goold old time when the traditional X-Mas themed games got released is always an harbinger of pretty little cute productions. But this is a different case, this is going to talk to us about X-Mas on Plus/4 in the most boldly way to do that!
Puls4r proudly drops its X-Mas greets card with Whirlybirds, drawing on it the signs of Mad for the code, KiCHY drawing the graphics here, and sitting at the console audio it's noneless than 5tarbuck. They teamed up once again in order to port on the Plus/4 the very first Doom-ish game ever, a sort of tech-demo – yet a real full game anyway! – showing a smart mix of both Texture Mapping and Vectors which seems to work quite on the brilliant side!
Where are all the elves again? As a gift messenger, you have very much to do at this time of year. And now you need to find those scatterbrained elves, too. There are only a few days left until you must deliver the presents, but the elves have lost track of time again. They're running around doing everything but making presents! You need to find them quick and remind them to take care of it or the winter festival will be a disaster this year! |
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| | Merry X-Massacre To All! | | Posted by Luca on 2022-12-18 |
 The snowflakes are falling down, Xmas is around the corner, and you have to ride a very long road to hunt for presents' boxes. These so simple words could make it appear as an easy task... But no, it actually is a real X-Mas massacre... An X-Massacre!
Mika "Misfit" Keränen is back for his holidays on Commodore 16, with his personal and perfectly recognizable style, and this time in particular by choosing some minimalist pretty graphics, in a Minter-like fashion twist. Run along a starry road at different speed rates, collecting presents' boxes and shooting at some nasty baubles and other running meanies. Attack waves keep infuriating, like every respectful shmup should do, with more enemies on the screen to be shot down.
Welcome back Misfit, and happy X-Massacre to you and to the whole fan-base belonging to your funny 16kB games! And to you, player: if you like the Misfit's games, you can pay him a coffee. |
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| | From X To X: Cross Verbix | | Posted by Luca on 2022-12-11 |
 Oh finally, we had to wait for Xmas holidays, first snowflakes and all the winterly rest, to see you coming back to the usual 8bit duties, Fabrizio Caruso!
If Japan has Inufuto, Italy has Fabrizio Caruso, and the common trait between them is the firm objective to write games which can be ported to as many machines as possible. The same is true for the latest release, a word game called Cross Verbix! The game is somewhat reminiscent of Tetris but with letters and words. Instead of the famous pentominos you get letters filling up the well (the speed is based on the level you're playing), till they reach the top - and that's game over. To avoid this, the player must roll' em up and down, and left/right too in the bottom line, in order to assemble actual English words, which at that point get deleted making more room.
It's a Commodore 16 game! There are 9 levels of increasing difficulty to beat, and the code shows some smart choices in order to keep 2700 English words in about 5.5kB. Oh, and it features hiscores too, and of course this... Means... War! Down with your score, in the Hall Of Fame! |
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