The Ballz Are Lava is a PICO-8 game by LiquidreamUK. Nobody knows why – it’s just always been this way. Our chance of survival is to absorb all the Green Orbs floating around, while avoiding certain death by touching the Lava ballz… all before the time runs out!
xika is a visual novell for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, currently in development. There is no download yet.
Pong Pounce is a PICO-8 game by bunnyhero. You’re a cat, trying to catch as many ping pong balls as you can in 60 seconds!
Ninja and Ninja II are fast-paced QTE (Quick Time Events) based games consisting of multiple events that challenge players of all ages at reactions speeds, button mashing, and precise on-screen timing; hailing from Toshi503 Studios for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). These two games come in a “2-in-1” fashion and are already complete, reflecting a magical “Black Box” art style. The game is currently seeking (sort of) funding via Kickstarter!
Gradual Games are heavily working on their new NES game Trophy. The game itself is in development since Janaury 2016.
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Our new game Trophy has been in development since Jan 2016. Prob still 1-2 years left of dev, but we’re finally where we can start showing some progress. Here’s a boss from the game. Enjoy! #screenshotsaturday #nesdev #neshomebrew #indiedev #indiegame
Dig Down & Up Stream is PICO-8 multicart of two games created during Train Jam 2018 by the Sunset Riders (Renaud Bédard, Kyle Olson, Tony ‘Fáyer’ Uribe and João Brant) with music by Elie Abraham.
Select the game with up and down, then hit X to launch it.
Up Stream : left and right to navigate through the river.
Dig Down : left, right, up to move and down to dig.
nop90 updated Retroguru’s Fruit’Y for the Nintendo Switch to v1.0 RC1. Seems we are almost there for a fully functional port.
Changes:
– Added HW fullscreen scaling
– Aded sound
Meritous is an action-adventure dungeon crawl game now ported to Nintendo Switch by nop90. The game is a cross between a top-view dungeon crawler and a bullet-hell shoot-em-up. In it, you control main character Merit, who travels through an enormous 3000-room labyrinth, the Orcus Dome, in order to find three artifacts called the PSI Keys, and restore them to their proper locations.
The game’s official homepage can be found here: http://asceai.net/meritous/
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Changes:
– New build with fixed/improved SDL
http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=package.meritous.hooka
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We talk to Rare legend David Wise about composing Donkey Kong Country, Battletoads and other classic game soundtracks.
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This week we’re taking a deep dive into the Real Bout Fatal Fury games and looking forward to playing Oregon Trail on a handheld stand-alone game. Toys R Us is about to close its doors for the final time, and someone wants to solve the problem that is a lack of IMDB-type sites for video games. We’ve got HD FPS’s and updates to Mario’s job status in this episode of the Retro League.