|  The Death Sector Claims Another Victim... | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-09-13 |
 You've seen the trailer, you watched the review, and after a long, long road, the game is here. Introducing Death Sector, a sci-fi themed arcade puzzler for your Commodore Plus/4 or 64K expanded C16/C116.
Your spaceship miraculously survives a crash during warp speed, and you find yourself in an unknown sector with no signs of life. Can you pilot through this desolate place, uncover its mysteries, and perhaps find a way back to safety?
Death Sector offers unique challenges and atmospheric, story-focused gameplay. Enjoy! |
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| | HVTC Update September 2025 | | Posted by Luca on 2025-09-08 |
So much time had to pass, but now it's time for an update: the High Voltage TED Collection gets updated today!
We had to add 44 new song files. Most of them are from some brand new releases, with Csabo's production on top of all, but there are some footprints on the ground indicating the presence of some golden era gems. Again, we had to change a ton of files, due to some little fixes, and most of all to have "reactive" files, i.e. files needing keys to start playing: in order to make'em play even on straight emulations with no keyboard input involved, let's force'em to play at the beginning anyway.
Hey but... With this new update, we broke the thousand files! Yes, that's for real, this last pack boasts 1035 single files! happy thousand to us! All the changes have been reported in the whatsnew.txt available.
Don't forget to completely delete the whole previous collection (that's the way to do at any new update!), then download/unzip the new one!
This is the straight link to the ZIP file. |
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| | YAPE/SDL Updated! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-08-25 |
 The online JavaScript version of YAPE (YAPE/SDL) has just been updated. There are several improvements in this version, most notably G64 support. This means that if you were so inclined, you can play games such as the recently recovered Bard's Tale, right from your browser. Enjoy! |
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| | The Librarian 3! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-08-21 |
 So soon after the second part, another welcome surprise: RoePipi is back with The Librarian 3! The game series is now a trilogy, and the third chapter takes an unexpected dark turn. It's night time, and Zombies are attacking your little sanctuary of books, ready to devour the written word.
That's right, the game is a third-person flip-screen shooter! And what a game it is: I had the pleasure and privilege of testing it before release, and I can only try to relay the huge amount of fun I had with it. The sense of discovery, watching the creativity on display, enjoying the cleverly and beautifully rendered PETSCII graphics... Well, it's a RoePipi game, so you know what you're getting into, but it gets a very enthusiastic thumbs-up from me, be sure to try it out! The only complaint: it's too short :-) |
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| | Svellas! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-08-20 |
 Inufuto's new game, Svellas is here. If you've been faithfully refreshing his page for the past 10 days, you had to wait for 54(!) other 8-bit systems to go by before the Commodore 16 showed up. This is certainly impressive. Can you even name 54 different systems?
As for the game, it's been said that if you've seen one of his games, you've seen them all, and this one is no exception. It's very familiar, we've seen these graphics, we've heard this music, and we've certainly seen very similar gameplay. Perhaps that's a good thing! Nevertheless, it's well done for what it is; therefore it's worth a try.
Collect all the stars on each level to progress. The twist this time is that you can use "lifts" to move around between different sections of the maze. Avoid the ghosts! Enjoy! |
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| | Zodiac Deluxe | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-08-11 |
 Zodiac Deluxe is here! If you're curious what would a 1985 game with a fresh new coat of paint would look like, check it out :-) |
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| | Bard's Tale Archived! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-08-03 |
Today, we put a period at the end of a very long story. We were talking about missing this release as far back as 2002, and many times after that.
The good news: thanks to Csory and siz, we now have a working version of Bard's Tale! It is a pair of D64 and G64 images, due to the B side of the disk having deliberate errors as a means of copy protection.
Only one thing left to do: load up the game and save Skara Brae! |
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| | The Librarian 2! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-07-31 |
 Closing out this month, RoePipi is back with an unexpected but most welcome surprise: The Librarian 2! It's a sequel to 2020's popular The Librarian.
She's back; our experienced librarian is still fulfilling the requests of visiting readers by retrieving topic-appropriate books from the shelves. Supporting this work is a lightning-fast computer that offers three tips for each question, pointing to the most likely subject area. There's also a small booklet (a condensed version of the Universal Decimal Classification) listing all major topics in English, in neat order.
The librarian has a sharp eye for the job: the program flashes the solution that seems correct. Then it's just a matter of hurrying over to the shelves to fetch a book on the requested topic - which, if all goes well, the reader gratefully accepts and rushes off. Next, please!
If you enjoy detailed PETSCII graphics and unique gameplay, The Librarian 2 is for you! |
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|  | If you were ever curious about what the massive map of Zodiac looks like, check out the newly added game map. | [ comments ] |
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| | The Great Demo and Dragon Wars! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-07-22 |
 Csory is back, to at least archive his old disks. Today we present two pieces of software that have been recovered. The first is Great Demo by ICE-Team, a rare release from 1990 of which no mentions have been found in contemporary magazines or catalogues.
And then we have Dragon Wars, yes indeed, putting and end to over 30 years of rumours; the game exists and is playable. Be sure to check it out! |
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| | "Carrot Stew", Who's Back? You! | | Posted by Luca on 2025-07-21 |
 "They're coming outta the history walls!". This is a summer of notable comebacks, and this applies to different scenes and eras.
Who's next? This is the time of Frank Bingley, artist, painter... And a very well known signatory of several type-in games, which have been published as BASIC lists on the English magazine Commodore User. His production can be located between the summer of 1986 and that of 1987, and it seems that it actually is the summer, the key to reading the activity of this historical developer!
Hence, following the habits of Frank Bingley, here comes a new game from him, on another summer. But in the year 2025! In Carrot Stew, you must guide a little rabbit around a field collecting carrots for a hot-pot whilst avoiding an angry farmer waving his stick, who has set guns and hidden snares to catch you! It helps to remember where the snares are, though the farmer resets them occasionally.
A little game written in BASIC, a cool surprise from the past. Come to see how deep is the hole of the White Rabbit, give it a try. Oh, and welcome back, Frank. |
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| | Mini Rulett! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-07-15 |
 In 2021, we found some very rare releases by Puhasoft and managed to contact them as well. Part of the information we received from them was the other releases that existed, and now another has been found: Mini Rulett. I can't stress enough how rare this commercial release is! Huge thanks to Lacus for archiving it for us. |
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| | Frog Jump Cover! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-07-05 |
 While browsing Plus/4 related YouTube videos (as one does), I came across a video featuring a datasette repair and testing some games. As I watched, an unfamiliar cassette was shown... After a quick check, I found that it's for an Italian bootleg called Frog Jump, and we don't have a cover for it!
I emailed the creator (The Lost C) and he kindly scanned it for us :-) Be sure to check out his channel for some retro content, and always keep your eyes peeled for Plus/4 related stuff! |
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| | Mazy2: It's Mazy Time Again! | | Posted by Luca on 2025-05-20 |
 It's Inufuto's time again! But this time, we're talking about his first own sophomore: Inufuto pushes on a game design which comes from his very heydays.
After Mazy, now we have Mazy2. The author jumps back to an old game by him, in order to have a point of view, from where to compare how his own tools have evolvend since. The player still have to collect knives, kill foes and reach the exit, but the differences between the brand new version and the one dated 2021 are quite evident: Mazy2 shows multicolor sprites, straight PAL/NTSC full compatibility, a better music driver, optimized commands, and more.
This 19th game by Inufuto is renowned to aim to the highest number of versions ever, thank to the versatility of the Cate, his own programming language, which is covering at the moment 14 different CPU ilks, surpassing the already impressive number of 111 versions reached with Myeien.
But hey! Enough of the numbers! We are players, where there is a simple plot, we see a land of challenge. Hance: let's challenge, retro gamers! |
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| | And The Winner Is... | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-04-19 |
The Hungarian Plus/4 Game Dev Compo is over. And The Winner Is...
The Plus/4 Scene!
That's right, we, the lowly sceners are the real winners. We have received quality software, engaging discussions, friendly collaboration, learning, gaming, and scene-life-sustaining forum activity. Heartfelt thanks to the 22(!) people who worked on 16 games:
AnyStone, BadCode64, BoCP, Bozsik Istvan, Chronos, CopAss, Csabo, Epy, FeCO, Haegar, Jeva, Kwayne, LBM, Mezo Istvan, MMS, Murphy, Nickmann László, PKK, Proky, Rachy, TRP, Unreal
But of course let us acknowledge the actual winners: City Grill and Gravity Boy! Congratulations! |
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| | Kye! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-04-18 |
 After the very popular Stunt Car Racer, cobbpg is back with his second conversion: Kye! The original game is by Colin Garbutt from 1992, which the author first ported to C=64, and now to Plus/4 as well.
The goal of the game is simple: move around with the green circle thing and collect all the diamonds. It's up to you to discover the rules! The game is controlled with the joystick in port 2 exclusively; there's no keyboard input.
Most notably, the music is done using a new custom music player, read the details on GitHub. Check it out! |
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| | YAPE 1.2.6! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-04-16 |
If you had issues with the last version of YAPE, worry no longer: Gaia is here with version 1.2.6, which is a much anticipated bugfix release.
* D82 image support in IEC mode
* Automatic line feed bug fixed in MPS801/803 mode
* Re-enabled attach disk image in 1551 mode
* Sound device selection fix
* TED sound frequency regression fix
* Monitor opcode cache clear on memory overwrite
This update is a must for all, so head on over to the YAPE Homepage and hit download! |
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| | City Grill! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-04-07 |
 Big surprise: another just-before-the-deadline game (the 15th!) made it to the game programming compo! Newcomers BadCode64 and CopAss bring you City Grill! The name will be familiar to Hungarians: it was a fast-food restaurant chain that operated in Hungary from '84 to '94.
In the game, you assemble hamburgers or combos as quickly as possible. You can see the order on the right, and you must assemble it piece-by-piece by pressing the button for the correct ingredients. In career mode, you start with simple burgers, and go from city to city, slowly increasing the complexity. In time mode, you create random orders (using all possible ingredients), and gain extra money and time for successfully completed orders.
Check it out! |
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| | TileSlip! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-04-06 |
 István Bozsik returns to our platform after 36 years with TileSlip, a logic game originally for DOS in 1995. It's the 14th entry to the programming compo.
Players must slide colored stones on a 16x16 board to match a target shape, navigating around immovable walls. 18 puzzles are waiting for you! The game displays the shortest possible solution while allowing players to explore their own... No pressure! The intro features a charming rendition of Yann Tiersen’s "Comptine d'un autre été".
Check it out! |
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| | Rush! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-04-04 |
 Thanks to the deadline extension, the game programming compo is still receiving entries: the 13th in order is Rush! by AnyStone! Rush is a tower defense game, (as far as we're aware) it's the first one on Commodore Plus/4. It's a real time strategy game, where you must defend your kingdom from trolls, orcs and cyclopes by placing towers and upgrading them. Hordes of enemies are trying to get through your defences, if three of them make it, you fail. Earn stars for each successfully completed level, and use the stars to purchase further upgrades.
There are 10 levels waiting for you. Be sure to check it out! |
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| | Emotional Iconic Reactions! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-04-01 |
 Ah, emotional icons, or emoticons (or emotis for short)!... Bright, colorful images that bring joy to us all. The world's first emotis were of course featured in the classic 1984 Commodore 16 game Exorcist, invented by Grigory Duddlovich. The game's happy protagonist, Smiley, shines up the place, while the evil monsters (Frownies) are spreading woe. The rest, as they say, is history - from the breakthrough success of this humble game, emotis are everywhere nowadays, from single-ply toilet paper to accountant hats.
Why mention them now? Well, today we're introducing a wonderful new feature on our forum: react with emotis! Oftentimes, when an enthusiastic programmer releases a game after months of hard work, clicking the "[ Reply ]" button and writing "Heh, neat geam" is just too much work. It's 2025 after all, nobody reads or writes anymore. Suffer and toil no more: forum users can now react with two clicks of the mouse. "But Csabo, you handsome genius, won't I be overwhelmed by the thousands of available emotis?" Worry not, dear fictional question-asker, as we've thought of this; you will find only the absolutely essential ones.
We remain technology innovators with this internet-first feature on Plus/4 World. Any similar features on other, uglier websites are only a figment of your imagination. Enjoy! |
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| | "...And Old Haegar Began To Narrate The Tale" | | Posted by Luca on 2025-03-30 |
 "There are many stories to tell about a world created from fantasy and magic. This is one of many. A small kingdom in this world, whose name has long been forgotten, has been in chaos since the last king died. A dark power has spread causing sinister creatures and figures to emerge. You, a young hero, do not want to accept this and want to restore the order. Can you do it?".
Well... No.
We're kidding guys! Come on, why so serious? Of course we're ready to fight, explore and gamble, playing The Tale, the brand new Synergy labeled RPG! Haegar makes his full-fledged entry in the BASIC category of the Commodore Plus/4 játékfejlesztői verseny, the Plus/4 GameDev competition, leaving its mark in the latest hours available to accept the latest games.
Explore the Kingdom, listen to the stories of its inhabitants, solve pub brawls, catch significant chatting, free caged spirits, get lost among mountains, fight in the deeper caves, and much more, in this classic role-playing game, also featuring large PETSCII graphics shown during the topical moments of the story flow.
Will it be the very last entry in the compo, or should we expect for new challengers? Oh well, this is another fairy tale to tell. Meanwhile, get into this tale, which is... The Tale! |
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| | Gravity Boy! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-03-25 |
 The game programming competition is heating up: the 11th entry is here! LBM is back once with his second game in the "modern ages" (after the awesome Mad Pod Race). Gravity Boy is a unique flip-screen action game. It was first developed for the Homelab 3 computer.
The game starts with a cinematic intro, which tells the story of the protagonist. After your spaceship breaks down, only gravity controls are working. Your task is to navigate the space station, collect parts, and deliver them to the engine room to fix your ship. You can "switch" the gravity in any direction, which will (naturally) cause you to fall that way. Be sure to avoid the spikes and the various robots haunting the rooms. There's no "lives", you can try as many times as you like, but the clock is ticking! Can you make it out?
It's a stylish, polished game featuring graphics from Jeva and music by Csabo. There's also a small time-waster puzzle game from Csabo called Binary Sudoku.
Be sure to check it out! |
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| | Captain Slim and the Strange Island! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-03-11 |
 Epy is back with his second (third?) game: Captain Slim and the Strange Island. In the game, you control the titular character (who is actually quite chubby and cute). He's stranded on a mysterious island after a shipwreck; your goal is to gather five ancient relics to unlock a gate and escape, all while navigating dangerous creatures and discovering valuable treasures.
The game is inspired by Treasure Island. There's no real "game over", losing all your health simply means losing some score and returning to the beginning. Can you make it all the way to the end? Be sure to check out the full-sized map, it will be essential for navigating the island! |
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| | Venture Lite Remastered and Bertalan-Simulator! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-03-10 |
 The Hungarian game development compo received two new entries!
ISS (the coop between Andras and MMS) is back with another game: Venture Lite Remastered. It's an improved version of 2020's Venture Lite. Collect the treasures in every room, then make your way back to the start and escape!
The second game is Bertalan-Simulator. After a mere 30 year hiatus, Proky is back with a new game, in cooperation with his daughter (PKK) who is only 11 years old and is interested in coding.
Check them out and enjoy! |
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| | UfoTofU And Deck Wreck! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-02-23 |
 Today, we get two more games that have been submitted to the Game Programming competition.
First up is UfoTofU by Kwayne. It's a Commodore Plus/4 implementation of a 2016 PICO-8 game by Albey Amakiir. The object of this game is to snake around on a 7x7 board filled with colorful symbols, trying to build up a palindrome pattern as long as possible. Every turn, the length of each palindrome found is added to the final score. The player has to be careful not to accidentally find a short pattern.
The second is Deck Wreck: Demokracy, a card game by Rachy. It's a unique resource-management-card-game, an implementation of the Android version. Ever dreamt of becoming President? Some say anybody can be President. But can you become one? Climb the political ladder to the top while balancing between opponents, dark forces from the shadows, fluctuating voters and other surprises. Be nice or be awful: it is your choice. Don’t ever forget that you have one final goal and there might be hard calls to achieve it. The game is available in both English and Hungarian.
Both games are strong, fun contenders so be sure to check them out! |
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| | A Deadly Game Completion | | Posted by Luca on 2025-02-22 |
 Come on kids, let's sit around the fireplace that burns with passion for retrogaming archaeology, I'll tell you a tale that starts in Szeged in Hungary, and ends in Portland in Oregon!
Deadly Adventure would have been the swan song for Homesoft, the one-man personal label of Jimy, before he eventually would join EDC, as announced by the author himself on Big Angler in the full spring of the year 1991. Although absorbed in the brand new crew, Jimy had a couple of games which he'd started to write by alone, so they still refer to the Homesoft label. One is Golden II, the other is Deadly Adventure.
While the former was more of an update of the previous one than a new game from scratch, the author evidently lost interest in the latter, publishing it as incomplete, and then moving on to fully dedicate himself to the demoscene with EDC. The fate of Deadly Adventure couldn't be more 'deadly' than this.
It's been 34 years (thirty-four years, guys? Damn, are we *that* old? Spoiler: yes, we are, argh!), and the passion for preserving old software has allowed to restore and complete what Jimy left unfinished. Enter Fishhack, which takes the structure of the old adventure, builds a compelling story around it, throws in nine puzzles and 25 locations, translates it all into more usable English, fits all of this into the memory constraints of a Commodore 16, and finishes with a first class release: here's Deadly Adventure (Fishhack)!
Now the story sets the game in 18th century central Europe, where you are tasked by the Prince Elecktor of your duchy to retrieve his Elector's Ring, stolen by a devious burgermeister from a city over the mountains and through a forest.
This story ends here, kids. But for Fishhack it's just the first chapter of a long (maybe!) story of future releases. |
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| | Alpha Man and Docster's Digger! | | Posted by Csabo on 2025-02-02 |
  Excellent news for the Plus/4 scene: we're welcoming not one, but two new games!
Eagle-eyed sceners may have already noticed that Kwayne, who released several BASIC PETSCII games for both C=64 and Plus/4 has released Alpha Man... but only for the C=64. "Where is the Plus/4 version?" you may have wondered; wonder no more - it's been submitted to the Game Development Compo! The game is a difficult sokoban-like puzzle: push each letter to its destination location. There's a single green block that you can freely maneuver around to help you accomplish this task.
The second brand-new game is Docster's Digger. After the recent awesome trailer; the game is already here! TRP has done a great job porting this 2019 Megastyle game to our beloved Plus/4. In the game, you must prevent the evil genie Khezam's plans: he flies across on his flying carpet bombing holes in the ground, and you must fill the holes to prevent the zombies from making it to the ground.
Be sure to give both of these games a shot! |
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| | Docster's Digger official petscii trailer | | Posted by TRP on 2025-01-28 |
 TRP is back with a trailer for the new game from 220 volt team. Check it out! Docster's Digger coming soon ;-) |
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| | White Max: The First Commercial Hungarian Game? A newly turned up cassette photo is the perfect opportunity to shine some light onto this not-so-well-known game. Read on if you're interested! | [ comments ] |
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| | Mieyen: Inufuto's 18th | | Posted by Luca on 2025-01-11 |
 Inufuto's 18th game invariably breaks into the new year 2025 after he closes the past one, exceeding the symbolic threshold of one hundred different systems where to run. His own C compiler and assembler are getting more and more refined.
In Mieyen, the monsters are invisible but hungry and can be spotted by following the trail of vanishing crumbs, to be burnt out, because they're seeking the burgers. If they reach all the burgers on a screen, or they catch you, you're done. Deal with more burgers and baddies on the further screens.
Inufuto grinds ground constantly and decisively. It goes like a train and shows no sign of wanting to stop. Let's have a run at this, too! |
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| | A Micro Oniric 2025: "Microsonix 001" | | Posted by Luca on 2025-01-03 |
 Getting the maximum profit with the minimum expenditure of resources: the Retroscene is actually based on this sacrosanct principle, and our long-time friend Mermaid, leading artist and historic member of Genesis Project, seems to have learned this lesson very well!
Her Microsonix 001 music box is the perfect example: eight SID chip codes that use it as a sound envelope machine, to produce dreamlike and convincing soundscapes in a handful of bytes. This work brings together technical knowledge, artistic taste, cultural references – ranging from musique concrete to modern field recording – and, inevitably, a lot of love for our machines.
Mermaid also added the source codes – both in Turbo Assembler format (e.g.: Turbo Assembler 6) and as text files for use with 64TASS – in order to encourage the usage of those SID tunes into further productions. |
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| | Dune Arcade Game Announced | | Posted by Luca on 2025-01-02 |
 A delightful new year's eve surprise! A forthcoming game, a great comeback, a famous saga. All this, has been announced with the release of the game's intro which has been modified to act as advert.
Point by point? Why not!
A great comeback. The mind behind all this is Phoenix. No bells are ringing into your head? Well, the mythical firebird rises up from the ashes of who was better known as Charles, leader of that Delta System group which has largely signed the second part of the Scene's golden era. Early '90s, mates!
A famous saga. Phoenix has refurbished the Dune franchise straight on our Plus/4! Classic Sci-Fi aficionados, consider all of you as warned, this Dune Intro is decisely winking to that specific crowd!
A forthcoming game. After a two-years work around it, Phoenix has done the working core of his Dune Arcade, and now it's time to have care of the aspect of his prod. The music has already been assigned to Narcisound and will be a SIDcard affair; soon, Unreal should be in the team too. If you too feel some interest into this project, leave a comment in order to he heard, and you might be part of the forthcoming Phoenix Design group.
Dune Intro is a juicy prelude to what to expect from Dune Arcade. Additional screenshots of the game itself are in the first comment, take a look! |
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