Tower and Dragon for the Commodore PET with only 8K (V4.0 coming and Kickstarter Soon)

For those who’re on the lookout for a Commodore PET information story, then have we acquired one thing particular for you! As because of a heads up by Jason Prepare dinner in our emails, we have learnt that the beforehand launched sport for the Commodore PET known as ‘Tower and Dragon’ will at some point be getting a brand new model and kickstarter marketing campaign. A sport that the creator says “Tower And Dragon for the Commodore PET with solely 8k. The sport has additionally been written in meeting language”. With out additional ado, make certain to take a look at the footage of the sport and much more information despatched through electronic mail beneath.

Here is what was stated in regards to the sport ” Tower And Dragon is a traditional dungeon crawling journey with major and offhand weapon, armor, quest storyline, shifting partitions, teleportation, and distinctive tile units and monsters for every dungeon degree. Your character begins out simply after climbing down the steps into an historical smash, found by following a dream. The sport is a tribute to the sport that impressed me to turn into a programmer: “Dungeon” from 1979.

“Tower And Dragon is by far the most effective sport ever launched for an 8K Commodore PET and is playable by disk drive or tape cassette on ROM1, ROM2, and ROM4 methods. You possibly can play with extra reminiscence, however a part of the design was to verify the sport would work on a number of the oldest inventory PET methods nonetheless round. Designing below these tight constraints was a monumental process the place each byte counted”.

Tower and Dragon Model 4 Trailer

“The audio soundtrack on the splash display screen makes use of Shiru’s BuzzKick engine, transformed to the PET and offers Tower And Dragon a novel and distinct audio that new video games will observe. He additionally transformed the theme music to run below BuzzKick. Norbert Landsteiner has a beautiful on-line PET emulator that features audio. His emulator may be discovered right here: https://www.masswerk.at/pet/ This may make it straightforward for anybody to check out the sport, in addition to another classic video games for the PET. His highly effective emulator accurately works with “Again To The Pet”, “A Vivid Shining Star”, and “Defective Robots”.

“I recovered the information from maps in a sport that I made as a boy in 1980. These classic maps are utilized in Tower And Dragon. Sadly, the BuzzKick engine was not full after I authored the above video, so that you won’t be able to listen to the superb outcomes till my subsequent video (very quickly) or the sport is launched (additionally quickly)”.

And that is all the things we have been informed, so regulate Indie Retro Information for that Kickstarter hyperlink!

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