Haplo on 25/12/2021 at 00:17
After retiring from making Thief fan missions I have been mostly making Commodore 64 games. My last (5th) game Tenebra was released on Friday to a very warm reception. Check it out if you still play games on our beloved 8-bit machine!
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https://h4plo.itch.io/tenebra)
demagogue on 25/12/2021 at 02:11
Cool! Congrats on the release.
I was just thinking about the very first game I ever made was on the C64 back in like 1987 when I was learning BASIC.
It could have been the first thing I programmed, period.
It wasn't so much a game, more like choose your own adventure where you read a bit, and then selected which path you wanted to take from there. But I still remember it. It was about Bob Dog Gets a Job, which was an animated bit they played I think on HBO at the time. ((
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59fv2zbS6pY) This maybe? Probably.) Later on I'd enter in, by hand, the programs they'd print in the back of one of those computer magazines.
The way I've kept up with it recently is playing C64 games on my phone on the train ride for my commute.
I've looked into making games for both the Atari 2600 & C64, but shifted more towards Darkmod & Unreal. But I could see myself doing it at some point.
Thirith on 26/12/2021 at 09:52
Incidentally, my brother-in-law got me one of those (
https://retrogames.biz/thec64) The C64 for Christmas. It's quite a sweet idea, since I grew up with a Commodore 64 and it definitely shaped me in terms of computers and gaming. At the same time, it's not particularly practical to have that breadbox lying around for the 2-3 times I'll actually hook it up and get a nostalgia fix.
During the last year we also spent a lot of time clearing out my father-in-law's flat and practice. The man was a hoarder, so we found things going back 50+ years. Towards the end of the endless-feeling trek we found some manuals, including an O.G. manual for a C64 printer, and the look, feel and style of that tome definitely also brought back some good times, even if we'd never had a printer back then.
Haplo on 27/12/2021 at 06:28
We have a C64 semi-permanently set up and connected to the TV, and we play it at least once a week. Every once in a while we rotate it with our Atari 520 STE and Amiga 1200.
