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Orab Games are heavily working on their project Untitled Isometric Survival Horror for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Current notes:

In v.041, I have added a lot of features. What you can’t see is that I have compressed all of my backgrounds with RLE. I have also added some simple background collisions to all rooms that you can navigate to. I have a lot of the first floor built with my early screen graphics, however, the hallways need some more programming, as you will be able to tell in the video. As of now, you must pass through a hallway twice before going to the next as this is how the Index Table is laid out in the code. I hope to have a remedy for that soon.

The room changing routine is mostly working, I still have some work to do on those, mainly placing doors. As of now, only the Right Exit works properly and only the Upper Right exit in Hallways.

Some other features added include:
-Fade out routine
-2 options for controls, Standard and Diagonal. Standard is Up,Down,Left,Right on the Dpad while your character moves in a diagonal. Diagonal controls means are you have to push Up-Left on the Dpad to move UpLeft on the screen.
-Cleaned up my palette code so that I can change colors more efficiently.
-Made a beta title screen for a place holder.

Waimanu slips into his next adventure with Weka Invaders. Mid of December 2017 Disjointed Studio made sure that Master System lovers were not bored during christmas and new year. But who says this game is just limited to this time frame?

Waimanu should shoot metal blocks and wekas that might be hiding in them. Some blocks also can hide power-ups which can give Waimanu new features such as temporary multiple-fire or increased speed. Also he can shake the floor he’s on, making all the weka on them fall under, if he’s got enough ‘shakes’ left (he can find more shakes hidden in blocks). Each and every Weka should be removed before the times runs out.

A friendly reminder: The game is still work in progress.

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

This week:

This week the Retro League is all out of bubble gum, but we’ve got an investment opportunity that’s very unlikely to return your money. We’ve got audio + data CD’s that won’t work in modern computers and some very good news for Sega CD collectors. The guy who claimed to get an impossible score decades ago has finally been hit with the banhammer in this episode.

Bad dreams are sometimes part of storylines. Same goes with Miedow (Cheril’s Nightmares) by The Mojon Twins.

After walking into the shrine, Cheril falls asleep. In her dreams, a voice commands her to find her daughters. You can push some blocks around, as well as statues. Move statues to pedestals to proceed. Find keys to open locks. Shoot orbs to
light them!

Mega Tomb of Dracula by Matteusbeus is very close to see daylight! The digital game will be available for free!

The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

Content:

We gets the highs and lows of DMA Design with Steve Hammond. The story behind Lemmings, Hired Guns and the scrapped sequel, the strained relationship with Psygnosis and the origins of Grand Theft Auto.

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/dma-design-with-steve-hammond-the-retro-hour-ep106

SDLLopan is a classic remake of Linux Lopan (a Mahjong clone) by Dave Ashley. nop90 invested couple of days to get this ported to the Nintendo 3DS. Like other Mahjongg games, you try to remove all the pieces. To remove pieces you must select a pair of pieces with the same drawing.

Antiyoy is an Android game by Yiotro. It’s a turn-based strategy with simple rules.

Changes:

– Added diplomacy (disabled by default, to turn on go to ‘skirmish – more’)
– Added fog of war (disabled by default, to turn on go to ‘skirmish – more’)
– Added music (thanks Derek Bryant)
– New campaign levels
– You can now choose your color in editor
– Bug fixes

Mbrane is a game of stunning simplicity and elegant complexity. Harnessing the power of Sudoku, Mbrane transforms the puzzle into a multiplayer, deterministic strategy game of pure skill. In the same class as games like Chess, Go & Othello, Mbrane takes strategy to a new level. Gameplay combines the excitement of Risk with the purity of Chess in a classic contest of power & influence.

Unlike Sudoku, an Mbrane starts out empty. Players vie for control of territory by placing numbers on the gameboard. The numbers carry value, and skillful placement is the key to victory!

Speccy is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer emulator, but also emulates a Sam Coupe. It will run software written for Spectrum 16k, 48k, 128k, +2, +2A, +3, Timex Sinclair, Pentagon, and Skorpion home computers.

Changes:

* Fixed PSG sound rendering in Nigel Mansell’s GP, etc.
* Fixed running files from the WoS browser.
* Fixed native crash when saving state.
* Fixed several other possible source of native crashes.
* Fixed desktop icon placement.
* Fixed crash when passing “file://” URI via desktop icon.