As you guys know I’m always on the lookout for cool homebrew games and ports/demakes for retro consoles and recently I’ve come a across a few more excellent ones.
Firstly is A Pig Quest for the Commodore 64 that uses some clever colour cycling tricks to force more colours than you normally can into the gameplay area resulting in it looking better than most c64 games. It’s cool environment effects are equally impressive with detailed moving backgrounds, leaves falling, rain, lightning and monsters that change more due to some animation compression tricks too. It’s full of so much crazy stuff they’re apparently having problems putting together the physical cart for real Commodore 64s lol!
Second is another new game in the making called Wild Wood that’s also pushing the Commodore 64 to it’s limits with colour tricks and extra layers of parallax scrolling resulting on a lot of background movement! The artwork is truly incredible and the game just looks utterly amazing for a c64 game.
Civfanatics & I recently celebrated the Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri 25th Anniversary at CivFanatics talking about some of the amazing Alpha Centauri fan projects such as the very realistic fan film, the new fan game remake, some of the best fan patches out there, and of course where you could get the game from which for some strange reason was only Good Old Games and not Steam.
Well it’s been 2 years now since I started a campaign of sorts to get the classic Microprose 90s Sid Meier’s Civilization 1 & 2 (+Test of Time) back into digital stores like GoG & Steam and ensure these great old games are not forgotten to time. Since I last posted here about it all the GoG vote threads have accumulated roughly 6,650 more votes since the start which is great work (thank you everyone!!! 🙂 )! I got a tip last year that companies have been contacting the licence holder 2K trying to get this sorted but that these things take time and nothing was certain. Well considering another year has gone by it looks like more work is needed to get the message through to 2K that they can still make money off Civ1&2, it would be a nice addition to their upcoming Civ7 marketing, and that the classic Civ fans want this fixed, so let’s get busy! GoG voting is probably the easiest way as it pushes them to contact rights holders so if you haven’t already voted please check out the link below!
Disclaimer: Yes there’s probably little chance of this working, yes many of us still have our CDs, yes many ‘interesting’ sites offer free copies of them, yes there are similar alternatives like FreeCiv & C-Evo, and yes maybe you like one of the sequels more. However none of that means Civ1 & Civ2 should not be brought back from exile and sold in modern digital stores like Civ3-6 are, like plenty of other formerly lost Microprose games are, and like many other games from that mid 90s era are that were FAR less successful. This is about getting these great old games back out into the world, getting them out of exile and the lost backwaters of the internet, injecting a bit of fresh life back into their fan communities, and also making them easier to get working. A lot of people struggle to get Civ2 in particular working on modern machines (with the CD based vids & music) so pre-packaged versions on GoG & Steam with 64bit fan patches applied and CD content included all in easy to use installers would help a lot. More info on the situation and the various technical issues & existing workarounds can be found in the thread’s expandable ‘full pitch’ section of the thread linked to above.
Been a while since I last posted about this cool retro game project inspired by the classic Quest For Glory series I grew up playing, but Ryan recently posted some nice updates on his retro remaster of Betrayed Alliance 1 and his up & coming sequel Betrayed Alliance 2.
As you guys know I’m always on the lookout for cool homebrew games and ports/demakes for retro consoles and recently I’ve come a across a few more excellent ones.
Civfanatics & I recently 
However EA is making the news this weekend 
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