Gemdalus - new game by RETREAM

Simone "RETREAM" Bevilacqua, who has released a nice round of great games, has just announced his latest creation.

"Gemdalus", very much like all other RETREAM games, looks stylish and polished, and has a nice soundtrack. The gameplay can be described as a blend of Pac-Man and Snake, with hints of Bomb-Jack and some remote Tetris-clone thrown it. In other words, it's a fast paced, easily accessible arcade style game, with an element of strategy. 

"Gemdalus" runs on AGA Amigas, and supports CD32's NVRAM. The game is still under development, with no release date yet.

Watch the first video of "Gemdalus" on RETREAM's YouTube channel (2025-05-15):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVycPY78rqE

Check out the game's itch.io page for more information:

https://retream.itch.io/gemdalus  

 

 

Room with a view

Screenshot of 1995 first-person-shooter game "Breathless" by Fields of Vision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathless_(video_game) (info)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txp9BrBn38k (gameplay video)

An Amiga plus a lot of good will equals... Crysis!

Can an Amiga computer run milestone first person shooter "Crysis"?

Well. "Yes it can." But you need some - just a little! - suspension of disbelief. Here's a prototype created by author lifeschool, that uses a slightly different approach to bringing the amazing graphics engine of "Crysis" to the Amiga. System requirements are comparably moderate:

• PAL Amiga 
• Kickstart 3.0 or higher
  
• 1MB Chip and 4MB fast memory
• 500MB free disk space

68030 or better CPU is recommended, though.

You don't believe me? Here, see it for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDrog6vN5tM
(Saberman RetroNews)

Ok, by now you will have found out that "Crysis" was turned from a dynamic first-person-shooter into a Laserdisc-/DVD-style game, so this isn't precisely a "direct port" of the PC version. ;-) But it's still a fun idea, it looks great, and it's even got a "virtual Windows 10 desktop". And it's under active development - so there's a chance one day it'll play just like the original!

If you want to know more, you can go to the game's itch.io website:

https://lifeschool22.itch.io/crysis-amiga-os-interactive-demo

Grind - multiplayer!

Spectacular Amiga 500 OCS 7Mhz first person shooter "Grind" is boldly going serial-link multiplayer.

"Grind" has come a long way from the early "Dread" demos. It's becoming a super polished game, with tons of atmosphere, thanks to the fine tuned visuals, and sounds, and of course the stunningly fast Doom-like 3D graphics engine. And it's got what way too few Amiga games, especially first-person-shooter games, have: it's multiplayer!

A new demo has just been released that features the latest serial-link (nullmodem) program code, a set of options to make adjustments to the multiplayer game mode, two arenas for players to duel, and a round of other updates.

Here you can watch a video on "Saberman RetroNews" YouTube channel (2024-07-14): 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMSdk5p5tnc

Check YouTube's video description for more information. 

If you like to directly support "Grind", you can go to the game's Patreon website: https://www.patreon.com/Grind_Amiga