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A festive arcade game: Santatron 2024 (17. Dec. 2024)
John Girvin recently attracted attention with the AmiGameJam winner ‘Rogue Declan’. Now he is adding something sweet to the festive season: he is publishing the cute Amiga game "Santatron 2024", which is also part of the coverdisk of the lates...

Game remake: Extreme Violence 2 V0.10 (16. Dec. 2024)
'pixelplop' is currently developing a successor to the shareware game Extreme Violence, released by Simon Green in 1993, for this year's AmiGameJam. The new game supports four instead of just two players (a-news.de bamiga-news.de reported). In the current...

OS4Depot uploads until 07.12.2024 (08. Dec. 2024)
The following files have been added until 07.12.2024 to OS4Depot: amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 10Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator mgba.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.1 GB/GBC/GBA Emulator roguefootballcardgame... gam/car 6Mb 4.0...

Programming competition: Voting opened for AmiGameJam 2024 (04. Dec. 2024)
Aim of AmiGameJam 2024 was to program a successor to an existing Amiga game. After the closing date, the winner can now be voted for until Christmas. To take part, you have to be registered on the website and can then submit your rating after clicking on ...

AmiGameJam candidate: Last Battle 2 (03. Dec. 2024)
Successors to Amiga games are to be created as part of the AmiGameJam 2024 contest. Under the title link, 'msmalik681' has published his interpretation of a successor to the Sega classic "Last Battle", which has also been ported to the Amiga: "Last Battl...

AmiGameJam: Numerous new games introduced (30. Nov. 2024)
The deadline for this year's edition of the AmiGameJam programming competition, which has the motto "The Sequel That Never Was", is just a few hours away: Participants are to develop a sequel to a classic Amiga game. A number of new titles have been prese...

AmiGameJam candidate: Anguish (29. Nov. 2024)
Successors to Amiga games are to be created as part of the AmiGameJam 2024 contest. 'lionagony', who previously worked on Silhouette Threat, has released his idea of a sequel to Agony for AGA Amigas. The first level of "Anguish" (YouTube video) can cur...

AmiGameJam candidate: Battle Squadron 2 (27. Nov. 2024)
Successors to Amiga games are to be created as part of the AmiGameJam 2024 contest. The 'Bitwise Brains' team have published their idea of a sequel to Battle Squadron at the title link....

SCALA-MM game conversion: The Angel of Death (25. Nov. 2024)
After Adventure 2 Remake and Beyond a Steel Sky, 'Quantum Code Monk', formerly 'grindercowboy', has released a third game project for Scala MM, which he has now submitted for the AmiGameJam 2024 instead of Beyond a Steel Sky: The Angel of Death is based o...

Tetris clone: "Tetra Zone" (22. Nov. 2024)
Around eight years ago, Wei-ju Wu published a seven-part series (plus additional episodes) on Amiga hardware programming in C on his YouTube channel. Now he is in the process of writing a Tetris clone called "Tetra Zone" for the AmiGameJam 2024, which imp...

Preview video: Extreme Violence 2 v0.3 (14. Nov. 2024)
For this year's AmiGameJam, 'pixelplop' is developing a successor to Simon Green's 1993 shareware game Extreme Violence, which now supports four players instead of just two. ...

Puzzle game: Demo version of Ami Robbo 2 (30. Sep. 2024)
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch's latest project will be a contribution to AmiGameJam 2024: Ami Robbo 2 is the successor to Amirobbo by Polish game developers Bernard Krzymowski and Artur 'Szafir' Szafrański, which was released in 1992. With his permis...

SCALA-MM game conversion: Beyond a Steel Sky (21. Sep. 2024)
After Adventure 2 Remake, 'Quantum Code Monk', formerly 'grindercowboy', has released a second game project for Scala MM: Beyond a Steel Sky is a conversion of the 2020 sequel of the same name to Beneath a Steel Sky as a point'n'click adventure game. This...

Scala MM conversion: Adventure 2 Remake (03. Sep. 2024)
In preparation for the AmiGameJam 2024, 'grindercowboy' has brought an old classic back to life: he has realised his second text adventure "Adventure 2" using Scala MM, a software for presentations, lectures and video captions. His first version only r...

Preview video: Extreme Violence 2 v0.2 (29. Aug. 2024)
pixelplop' is in the process of writing a successor to the shareware game Extreme Violence, published by Simon Green in 1993, as an entry for this year's AmiGameJam. In the original version, two players tried to eliminate each other in a labyrinth. In the...

Text-based strategy game: HAMmurabi V1.01 (29. Aug. 2024)
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy game in which you "take on the role of the Sumerian king for ten years, deciding how much land to buy, how much wheat to feed your subjects and how much wheat to sow." A previous version was published in 1968 for the newl...

Video: AmiGameJam candidate Anguish as spiritual successor of Agony (25. Aug. 2024)
Topic of this year's AmiGameJam, which runs until December 1, are sequels to Amiga games from the old days. With a video of the current state of development, Adrian Browne presents his candidate "Anguish" at the title link, which is to continue the g...

Rogue-like game: Rogue Declan v1.3.1 and demo version (update) (31. Jul. 2024)
After winning AmiGameJam 2022, Nivrig Games continues working on its twin-stick shooter (YouTube video) and released version 1.3.1 with fixes, optimisations and refinements. Detailed Changes: Overhauled boot loader Improved font Fix pits not animat...

Puzzle game: Ami Robbo 2 V0.1 (02. Jul. 2024)
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch's latest project will be a contribution to AmiGameJam 2024: Ami Robbo 2 is the successor to Amirobbo by Polish game developers Bernard Krzymowski and Artur 'Szafir' Szafrański, which was released in 1992. With his permis...

Programming competition: AmiGameJam 2024 launched (02. Jun. 2024)
Following the 2022/2023 competition on the topic of "Sword and Sorcery", the next AmiGameJam has now been launched. In this year's edition, the task for the game programmers is: "The Sequel That Never Was". If you want to take part, you have to submit a s...