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Hydra Castle Labyrinth, originally Meikyuujou Hydra, is a freeware Indie platformer developed by E. Hashimoto, a.k.a. Buster. Now the game has been ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.

The game hearkens back to early “Metroidvania” games like Knightmare II: The Maze of Galious and Legacy of the Wizard: the player explores an immense maze-like dungeon, collecting tools and keys that allow them to proceed deeper. Certain areas are cordoned off from the main dungeon area, and each presents a more linear zone with a boss at the end. The player can find new equipment to make themselves stronger as well.

LibrePCB is a free EDA software to develop printed circuit boards. It runs on Linux, Windows and Mac. The project is still in a quite early development stage (no stable release available). The Pandora port is courtesy of ubruhin.

Shotgun Debugger is a shoot-em-up game Matthew Sarnoff made with Carnegie Mellon University’s Game Creation Society in the spring of 2005. This 2D, top-down action game, has been ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.

PDRoms is now HTTPS ready! Thanks David! More improvements to come, let’s bring PDRoms back to old glory 🙂

Cytoid by Tiger Tang is a rhythm game where you can create, share and play your own levels!

Astronauta Perdido is a Sega Genesis homebrew game by nemezes and LinkueiBR (P.H.G.F.). It’s a small puzzle-maze platform game.

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The Wii is still alive and kickin’ just like many other abandoned systems as well. Owen, known for several Wii homebrew games, heavily posts screenshots on his Twitter account for Newo Fox.

If you are familiar with Star Fox (japanese スターフォックス, Sutā Fokkusu) you will be happy to read, that the concept is quite similar. The first public release should happen in around two weeks.

NESmaker allows users to create cartridge based, hardware playable NES games in an intuitive, faux object oriented environment without ever having to write a single line of code. The video shows how Troll Burner has been created.

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yioFiller by Yiotro is a simple strategy game. The goal is to capture more territory than your opponent. This game has simple rules but it has some tactical tricks.

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We’re joined by Ashens, Kim Justice, Nostalgia Nerd and Slope’s Game Room for our huge retro gaming Youtubers panel at PLAY Expo Blackpool!

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