PETSCII Dungeons & Droids C64 - Fancy a bit of PETSCII gameplay, then check out this new game by Ko-Ko (Kornel Kolma)

Welcome to PETSCII Dungeons & Droids, a tactical roguelike deck-builder that has been released for the C64 by Ko-Ko. Strikingly presented in full text-based character graphics and vibrant animations, the game plunges players into the depths of a dark, labyrinthine dungeon overrun by broken-down machinery. Survival requires navigating tense card battles and outsmarting hostile robots using a unique system that pairs a deck of cards with unpredictable, sentient dice. As players defeat malfunctioning droids, they can harvest special abilities known as "Widgets" to upgrade their own gear, though they must constantly gamble against the fickle nature of their own dice rolls.

PETSCII Side-Scrolling Platformer - A new game for the Commodore PET inspired by Mario and Sonic!

Jimbo is certainly no stranger to IndieRetroNews, as he is one of the only developers who has created new games for the Commodore PET. Games such as PETSCII Bros, PET Panic!, PET Space Invaders 2, TREKWAR are just some of those games that have been mentioned by us. Well here we are with another game from Jimbo, as he has released a new game called 'PETSCII Side-Scrolling Platformer'. A new game which he describes as a Commodore PET game inspired by Mario and Sonic. In light of this news, a gameplay video has been provided which can be viewed below.

Delve!: The Goblin's Grotto - A Petscii Dungeon Crawler for the C64 that's rather enjoyable!

Something slightly different for this weekend retro heads up, as if you are a huge fan of Dungeon Crawlers, especially games such as Eye of the Beholder or Lands of Lore. Then you may be interested to know that Ant Stiller and Cal Skuthorpe has released the brand new PETSCII Dungeon Crawler of ' Delve! - The Goblin's Grotto' for the C64; A RESET64 4kb 2022 competition entry as a procedurally-generated action rogue-like with a tiny smattering of Eye of the Beholder. To coincide with this news, Saberman has done a video of the game viewable below.

The Great Giana PETSCII Sisters gets a release on the C64!

We've certainly heard a lot about that famous platformer the Great Giana Sisters from 1987, especially as it came back to the Amiga as a Giana Special Edition by Reimagine Games and then of course the Great Giana-Sisters Construction-Set, whereby you can create your own levels. But this latest release as The Great Giana PETSCII Sisters on the C64 by Vintage Computing Carinthia, is something of a special breed and one you might be interested in checking out!

Monstro Giganto - A glorious PETSCII C64 game gets another video tease via RGCD

If you read our previous article, you would've known that Antonio Savona and team were working on a brand new PETSCII C64 game called Monstro Giganto; a homebrew that's very similar in artistic design to another game we have featured called Digiloi. Thankfully the game is still progressing well, as thanks to a heads up from our good friends RGCD, they have shown us new footage of the game being played on a MEGA65 devkit!

Monstro Giganto - A glorious PETSCII C64 game is coming soon via RGCD

If you read our previous article, you would've known that Antonio Savona and team were working on a brand new PETSCII C64 game called Monstro Giganto; a homebrew that's very similar in artistic design to another game we have featured called Digiloi. Well fast forward to this weekend, and not only has a new gif been posted via Facebook, but they've also mentioned the AI is complete and that it will be shipped soon through RGCD.

Monstro Giganto - A glorious PETSCII C64 game is coming!

Well this took us completely by surprise and it's not a particular style that we've come across very often, as during our look through in the C64 FB group today, we've just been told by Antonio Savona and team(?) that they are working on a brand new PETSCII C64 game called Monstro Giganto; a homebrew that's very similar in artistic design to another game we have featured called Digiloi.

Nothing but PETSCII - Gubbdata 2016 Demo Competition Winner Announced

Winner of Gubbdata 2016 Demo competition: "Nothing but PETSCII" was released yesterday. Genesis Project and Triad's Gubbdata 2016 Event was held in Lund, Sweeden 1-3 July. Celebrating a combined 60 years of love for Commodore. The demo only uses the original Commodore 64 font, and no pixel graphics. And you can see it for yourself in the link below. Along with all the other competition entries.

H.P. Lovecraft in Text mode - Final push for a unique horror Kickstarter campaign

Over these past few days we've been getting reports of a new Kickstarter that takes the influential writing from the famed horror writer H.P Lovecraft, while telling a story in dark and rather creepy PETSCII C64 ASCII artwork. And sure enough we got the heads up today from QUESTRON of their in final days Kickstarter, that aims to bring you a Hardcover book with a gold foil cover (210 x 285 mm), from two of his more obscure writings, “Dagon” and “Nyarlathotep” with PETSCII.