Back in the mists of time, the first game released by Soft Rock Software was Escape from Exeria, a game in which the player navigates mazes to collect things while avoiding the bad guys – but unlike the most famous example of its kind, with an added puzzle element. Updated and re-released in the mid-1990s, the company has taken another look at it recently and given it a new lease of life.
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Cavern pops its way into !Store
I’m forever blowing bubbles orbs… A popular game from yesteryear was Bubble Bobble, which was available for a number of 8-bit home computer platforms and consoles – a platform game in which the player moved around each level, firing bubbles at the monsters in order to eliminate them. It’s also one of the games featured in the Code the Classics book from the Raspberry Pi folk – and the ‘type in listing’ from that book, written in Python, is called Cavern.
Read MoreInfinite Bunner crosses the platform divide
And the road, and the railway line, and the river… Available to download now from !Store is a newly ported game for RISC OS called Infinite Bunner. Brought to the platform by Jeroen Vermeulen, the conversion is from Python (using PyGame) to BBC BASIC (using the AMCOG Development Kit.
Read MoreSnippets – 1st January, 2021
A final round up of 2020 news that hasn’t found its way to RISCOSitory before I was aiming to get this final round up of news posted on the last day of 2020, but as ever other things got in the way, so what was intended as the last post of 2020 has become the first post of 2021. Still, never mind, better late than never – which should probably be the official motto here in the RISCOSitory bunker!
Read MoreEvade the noose by guessing a word in KevSoft’s kHangman
A new release from Kevin Wells is kHangman, a variation on everyone’s favourite game in which the punishment for not successfully guessing a word is to be hanged. Well, virtually, anyway, with an image of a hanging matchstick man drawn piece by piece with each letter guessed incorrectly – your game is over when the image is complete.
Read MoreGet your daily exercise with two new AMCOG collections available from Elesar
The lockdown may have been eased slightly in the UK (elsewhere may vary), meaning you are permitted to venture outside for longer for your daily exercise, but that doesn’t mean you should be outside all day, every day – so what can you do at home for the rest of the day?
Read MoreFight off that virus on RISC OS!
Well, in a game, anyway. Rick Murray has found himself inspired by the pandemic that has had such a dramatic effect on all our lives, and written a game for people to while away those lockdown hours – Virus!
Read MoreSCUBA Hunter now available
At the recent Southwest Show, a new game was being shown off and sold to show-goers by AMCOG Games – and as of a few days ago, that game is now available to purchase via !Store.
Read MoreStar Mine – a 3D-perspective space game from AMCOG
At the London Show last month, AMCOG Games released a new 3D-perspective game – and that game, Star Mine, is now available to purchase from !Store.
Read MoreAMCOG release Star Mine preview images ahead of London Show release
One of things to look out for at the London Show this coming Saturday is a new title from AMCOG Games called Star Mine – and a small selection of images have now been released as a taster of what the game looks like.
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