If you’re a fan of a type of computer game known as a ‘first-person shooter’ (or FPS), in which the perspective of the game is from the eyes of the character being played, there are countless games you will know of on other platforms, with far fewer titles available for RISC OS, whether ported or original.
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Defend Earth from the Chronites in TIMERUN from AMCOG Games
Adding to an ever growing list, the latest title from AMCOG Games is TIMERUN, and it had its first public release at the recent MUG RISC OS Xmas Market, and is now available to buy from !Store, priced at £9.99.
Read MoreIt’s no pig-deal, just a new game called Porklike
Following a similar path to his last release, Cherry Bomb, Jeroen Vermeulen has released Porklike, another new game for RISC OS.
Read More12MinsTo9 – simple maths and sliding tiles
A very simple game that’s been around for about a decade is 2048, a sliding tile game in which the goal is to slide all of the numbered tiles in one of four directions, in order to cause collisions between two tiles bearing the same number, at which point they combine to become the total of the two.
Read MoreWitness something A-maze-ing from AMCOG
Or rather play a game called A-maze-ing! Theorising that one could hype up a game within its own name, Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games sat in front of his home computer – which wasn’t a Sinclair QL – and wrote a game titled A-maze-ing.
Read MoreStay up above the world so high in your Tappy Plane!
And below those dodgy looking upside down sky mountains! Rebuilding on a game he released last year but had to withdraw1, Jeroen Vermeulen has now released a brand spanking new title for RISC OS called Tappy Plane!
Read More3D Turbo Boost screeches into availability
Released at the recent Southwest Show, 3D Turbo Boost is the latest game from AMCOG Games, and it is now available to buy online via !Store.
Read MoreGet in a flap, but don’t pipe down (updated 23rd June)
I mean, don’t HIT a pipe, or you’ll GO down! Almost a decade ago, a very simple game was hatched from the mind of Vietnamese programmer Dong Nguyen. The game, Flappy Bird, was a very simple sideways scrolling game with only one control requirement – to tap the screen. This caused Faby, the flappy bird in question, to flap its wings and gain some height, otherwise it’d descend – all the while flying to the right. Update, 23rd June, 2022: The RISC OS version of this game has now been…
Read More3D Pingo released into the wild
Launched at the recent Wakefield in Bradford Show, 3D Pingo is a new title from AMCOG Games, and it is now available to buy from !Store.
Read MoreEscape from Exeria gets a CD release at Wakefield in Bradford
At last year’s virtual Wakefield Bradford Wradfold Show, Soft Rock Software released a new version of an old budget game – Escape from Exeria. The new version features:
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