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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.

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.

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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Alien Attack is a homebrew Atari VCS game by easmith. It’s a 4k tiny shooter game, fully written in Assembler.

Release notes:

Ok, I got a little feedback on the “prototype” so I went ahead and made some changes. I think now it can truly be considered a finished game.

1. Made 16 unique enemy designs/ 16 waves.
2. Enemy speed is now controlled with fractional pixel movement , for more variations in speed and less abrupt change from slow to really fast, thanks to help from SpiceWare for this.
3. Figured out how to enlarge Enemy missile without flicker.
4. Fixed bug where death sound would play indefinitely
5. Reduces delay before button reset kicks in.
6. Added win screen after wave 16.

Again, the idea is to take out the 16 waves before the enemies take out your laser cannon or power supply , or outlast your power supply. Now I think it is good enough to be considered a pretty solid first effort, at least technically , for just 4 weeks of work. ROM is actually 3K.