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I have finally gotten to releasing a simple 4 level demo embedded in the page that can be found on my ith.io page here if anyone wants to try it out.

It still has some glitches, but it really is feeling like a full game now with different stages; level complete, death cycle & restart the level with a life lost, and game over screens.

Please feel free to try it and give some feedback :)

https://syntaxerrorsoftware.itch.io/minimike

cheers,
Paul]]> The RVG Squad Chat Area syntaxerrorsoft https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/online-minimike-demo-for-the-c64/ https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/cassette-50-comp/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:59:04 +0000

Welcome

Cassette 50 was an infamous collection of games published by Cascade in 1983 and an early example of shovelware, marketed on the basis of sheer quantity rather than the quality or playability of its games.

This competition is about creating a brand new compilation tape - with any proceeds to be donated to charity - featuring games by C64 developers of all levels of experience, focusing on great gameplay in a mini-game format while still retaining the look or feel of a Cassette 50 game, such as it was!         

To help achieve that aesthetic, pose an exciting challenge and keep entries to a manageable scope alongside your other projects, there will be a tight limit on the amount of memory your game can use, with every custom character or sprite to make your game more pleasing to the eye coming at the cost of less space for gameplay code or data. To help get the ideas flowing we will provide a set of chars and sprites from the original Cassette 50 games. You are free to use these, design your own graphics, or for a real challenge stick to good old-fashioned Petscii like many of the original games. DOWNLOAD HERE

If your game qualifies based on the rules below and is judged to be one of the top-10 based on the voting criteria, you will receive a free copy of the physical tape release to be produced by PhoenixWare.


Competition Rules

    The competition deadline is 23:59 GMT on the 31st March, 2021. All entries to be submitted by EMAIL to support@thervgsquad.co.uk
    Final code must be in .PRG format that loads into memory below $1000 hex, giving 4,096 bytes of address space.
    At no point can the code write to any location at or above $1000, however using IO normally at $D000-$DFFF is allowed, as is calling BASIC or KERNAL routines. BASIC programs are welcome too, just be sure to start your program with POKE 56,16:CLR so it conforms to the memory limits.
    Feel free to make creative use of memory $0400, every byte counts!
    The games must be previously unreleased and your own work, whether that be by yourself or as part of a collaboration.
    PAL must be supported, with additional NTSC support optional (but encouraged).
    Participants may submit multiple entries, either as an individual or within a team. Team entries must be registered by an individual, and any potential prizes will be sent to the registered individual only.
    Entries should be submitted exclusively to the Cassette 50 Comp by the competition deadline. Please feel free to share as you wish after the competition deadline has passed.
    There will be a panel of judges (TBA), and entries will be scored on a point distribution basis across several criteria. The decision of the panel is final.
    Judges *CAN* enter games themselves, but cannot self-vote (award points to their own release).
    Games must be submitted as freeware.
    Qualifying games will be published on a cassette tape compilation by Phoenix Ware, and all proceeds after costs from the sales will be donated to Special Effect Charity.


Read more here https://itch.io/jam/the-c64-cassette-50-charity-competition

]]> The RVG Squad Chat Area zapiy https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/cassette-50-comp/ https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/spectrum-next-game-dev/ Sat, 22 Aug 2020 00:59:34 +0000
Anyone interested in making a NEXT game with me?]]> The RVG Squad Chat Area zapiy https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/spectrum-next-game-dev/ https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/rvg-blast-1-2-atari-2600-wip/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 20:27:24 +0000
I was recently asked to make a multi cart out of both RVG Blast games.  Both games were different enough to not play nice together so I'm attempting to re-write them from scratch.

Not savvy enough to figure out displaying attachments but here's a preliminary game select screen :)]]> The RVG Squad Chat Area poundlander https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/rvg-blast-1-2-atari-2600-wip/ https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/c64-demos/ Mon, 04 May 2020 08:13:29 +0000
What I need is some help and advice on the best way to achieve something small, but something worthy.

Anyone?]]> The RVG Squad Chat Area zapiy https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/c64-demos/ https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/amiga-dev-thread/ Mon, 04 May 2020 08:10:11 +0000
So Amiga dev is something I am keen on at the moment so please use this thread to share anything you are working on, need help with and so on.

To kick it off jojo073 I believe you need a coder to help you with ideas? I can't help on that one yet but I understand your musician is not able to help you on Airmail, your latest Amiga game, uctumi is a musician so please let me introduce you both, please feel free to us the pm system here or chat opening on here.]]> The RVG Squad Chat Area zapiy https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/amiga-dev-thread/ https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/say-hi/ Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:53:55 +0000
This area will be used to help each other create games, be that coding, graphics and music. We will be all levels of skill so please are that in mind. Remember this is laidback and a sharing type group. We would like to create a game but that’s not the main objective.

So I am Jamie. I am a very area game designer. I am only using AGD at the moment to make a Spectrum so I will have a thread dedicated to that. Please introduce yourself and so on.

Thank you for joining

]]> The RVG Squad Chat Area zapiy https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/say-hi/ https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/prime-mover-the-zx-conversion-project/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:43:41 +0000
This is a holding thread, we are looking for a ZX Speccy coder to help if possible, take a look at the game here https://helpcomputer.itch.io/prime-mover and let us know your feelings.

helpcomputer0 will get you all the assets you need to build the game.

Move here soon.]]> The RVG Squad Chat Area zapiy https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/prime-mover-the-zx-conversion-project/ https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/what-is-the-rvg-squad/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:00:44 +0000
So, what is The RVG Squad?

The RVG Squad is a group of likeminded game creators, members that want the comfort of being part of a group but minus the pressure that some would place upon game creation. Our motto is purely "Come for the Game Creation, Stay for the Friends". We have already formed a place on our forums for the "Squad" to get to know each other, discuss ideas, share resources, plan game creation and much more.

The beauty about what we are doing is we are more than happy for you to belong to other groups, what we are offering is a chillout zone, we would love to publish games on the Bitmap Soft label but The RVG Squad is independent so we can release with anyone, of course we may never release anything because ultimately this is about building likeminded friendships.

The RVG Squad was born from our love of that iconic British Software House, The Hit Squad, we based our logo loosely on that famous image that adorned so many classic games back in the 80's.

Our aim is simple, we want to build a friendly group of people, all skill levels are welcome, no matter what your background is, if you’re interested in this idea then get in touch.]]> The RVG Squad Chat Area zapiy https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/what-is-the-rvg-squad/ https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/the-rvg-squad-twitter/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 18:49:19 +0000
https://twitter.com/TheRVGSquad]]> The RVG Squad Chat Area zapiy https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/community/the-rvg-squad-chat-area/the-rvg-squad-twitter/