Thankfully, though, that doesn’t turn it into a dodgy 1993 sequel1 Launched earlier this year at Wakefield by AMCOG Games, Cyborg is an arcade action game by Tony Bartram in which you take on the role of a cyborg treasure hunter, seeking out ancient treasure in Castle CyberDroid – and Tony has just pushed out Cyborg Second Edition, an update to the game that brings it up to version 2.20.
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Cyborg – now available from AMCOG Games
No late 1980s dodgy scripting, directing and special effects involved – thankfully!1 First launched and sold on CD at the recent Wakefield Show, Cyborg is a new release from AMCOG Games, and for those unable to attend the show, it is now available from !Store for £9.99. In the game, you play a cyborg treasure hunter who has travelled to Castle CyberDroid in search of ancient treasure – and your objective is to find all of the items of treasure that can be found on each level, then head to…
Read MoreMop Tops gains new levels and sounds in version 1.20
AMCOG games has released a new version of Mop Tops, the company’s most recent game, with more levels, more music tracks, new sound effects, and improved graphics. Launched at London 2016, the game was inspired by Lemmings and involves the player placing various tools and objects on the play area for the titular Mop Tops to interact with, the aim being to guide them to the exit on each level. As such, each level is a puzzle that needs to be solved, and the player is given the building blocks…
Read MorePi Zero with an OLED display – Bristol Users meeting, 11th January
And possibly – just possibly – some gaming fun, too1. The next meeting of Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) will take place on Wednesday, 11th January, and this month Chris Hall will be showing off a £6.00 OLED display, sporting a whopping 128×64 pixel resolution and connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero. This is the latest evolution of Chris’ GPS project, with the display showing the Ordnance Survey grid reference, milepost mileage (which will generally show zero unless you are on or very near the Severn Valley Railway, since this…
Read MoreNews nybble: Pop to the shop and buy Mop Tops
Well, okay, !Store, not ‘the shop’ as such! Anthony Bartram of AMCOG Games has officially released his latest game, the Lemmings-inspired Mop Tops, which is a parallax scrolling puzzle game featuring 22 levels (currently – more are planned, with updates being free) and four original pieces of music. The objective is to guide as many Mop Tops as you can to the exit before the time runs out, and you can place tools and objects on the screen for the Mop Tops to pick up and use, or interact with…
Read MoreXeroid gains new levels, music, other enhancements
Game enhancements result of hard work, not Russian ‘supplements’ Xeroid, the latest game from AMCOG Games, has been given a new lick of paint, with a new version released featuring more levels, more music, and, well… more!
Read MoreXeroid: a new 3d perspective game for RISC OS
It’s not what you get if you feed steroids to a photocopier! Launched at this year’s Wakefield Show, AmCoG Games new 3D perspective, vector graphic game Xeroid is now available for general purchase. Based on a similar idea to Fervour, originally released by Clares Micro Supplies in 1993, the game sees you guiding your craft along a track, with the blackness of space forming the backdrop – your goal being to remain on the track, overcoming obstacles to reach the end.
Read MoreOverlord now available from !Store
Fly me to the moon and let me play amongst the stars take the fight to them! Wakefield newby Anthony Vaughan Bartram, who developed a new game for RISC OS over the course of about nine months running up to the show, has now made that game available from !Store.
Read MoreRISC OS Awards at ROUGOL
An opportunity to reminisce about good times long very recently gone. The RISC OS User Group of London have announced the date and subject of their next meeting – and it’s a subject that I hope all but fifty or so members of the RISC OS community are currently thinking about! That subject is the 2014 RISC OS Awards poll, which is currently underway and has only received a handful over fifty votes so far – with a closing date that is a little over two weeks away, at the…
Read MoreNew version of Star Fighter 3000
Announcement from Christopher Bazley, 15th September, 2013 I have released a new patch for Star Fighter 30001, a 1994 game where you fly a one-person fighter spacecraft around a mainly flat-shaded polygonal world shooting things, blowing them up, and collecting floating bonus coins.
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