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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!

Release notes:

Online play is here! Hit the online button to immediately queue for a quick match. Tabletop mode now properly renders points from the perspective of the second player. In AI and online games your controls will be grayed out if it is not your turn. Make sure to accept the new online permission!

Proliferate by Aven Labs is a strategy board game played by two people. The goal of the game is to as rapidly as possible expand your colony of digital cells. To do this you must position your cells strategically so that you can both attack your opponent and defend your own cells.

Changes:

* Now with notifications and updated UI.

Mr. Boom is a Bomberman clone for the RetroArch platform and was converted from DOS assembly using asm2c. The source code can be found here. Responsible for the Pandora port is ptitSeb.

Changes:

* Updated to 4.4

POWDER is a Rogue-like game, which is not a port of an existing Rogue-like. It is built around re-playability and long term ergonomics, not short term learning. Author of this piece of software is Jeff Lait.

Changes:

– Jeff Lait’s Powder 118, released in February 2018
– Compiled with ptitSeb’s latest beta Code::Blocks (GCC 7.2)
– Added the README file to the documentation menu
– Updated source code and libraries

Hatari is an excellent Atari ST emulator, ported to Pandora by magic_sam.

Changes:

– Bumped Hatari to 2.1.0 (latest commit on February, 20th 2018)
– Compiled with support for IPF files (libcapsimage 4.2)
– Bumped EmuTOS to 0.9.9.1
– Added the manual in the Documentation menu
– Updated all source codes in the PND

In this third episode of NES Programming Michael Chiaramonte reviews some items that were left unclear from the last stream, and then discussed how to add entities into the game.

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

Content:

We reminisce on the golden age of First Person Shooters with David L Craddock, the author of new book Rocket Jump.

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/the-history-of-fps-games-the-retro-hour-ep111

nop90 updated Retroguru’s Fruit’Y for the Nintendo Switch to v0.2 Alpha. It plays a lot better and is a recommended update. Sound issues are left to improve.

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Changes:

– Fixed keys issue
– Aded touch screen support

In this second episode of NES Programming Michael Chiaramonte moves code out of the VBLANK interrupt into the main execution loop.

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nop90 is known for many Nintendo 3DS homebrew game ports and for porting libSDL to the Nintendo 3DS. He updated his libSDL to the Nintendo Switch!

Release notes:

– Added 8bpp 16bpp and 24bpp video mode
– Added touch screen handling (mapped to mouse events)
– Added automatic download an install of SDL_image SDL_gfx SDL_TTF and SDL_Mixer