The Reset64 Magazine 2024 Craptastic Game Dev Spectacular Preview
Development for the 2024 4KB Craptastic Game Competition is in full swing. With the deadline fast approaching (August 31st), we thought we’d give you all a quick look at what some of the very talented devs are up to for this coding competition.
Best of luck to all the competitors and we can’t wait to try all of your craptastic creations!
As always, thank-you to our competition sponsors and supporters:
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Ausretrogamer – retrogaming and pinball
Title: Weights and Crates
Author: TND Games
Status: In Progress
Synopsis: You are a worker at an explosives factory. You have been sent outside to the water logged shipping yard, where you are operating a conveyor belt, with crates on board. For every crate that passes points are scored. Yellow crates give 100 points and red crates award 200 points. Landing on yellow crates will stun you for a bit. If you are pushed to the central point of the red rollers, a fault occurs on the belt, resulting in you falling into the water. If you land on red crates or getting hit by falling 10 ton weights will result in instant death.
Title: Shark Under The Sea 4K
Author: SkyBerron
Status: In progress
Synopsis: You take on the role of a hungry shark. Eat small fish, avoid depth charges and don’t let yourself be hunted by the hunter divers.
Title: MoruBOOST
Author: Alexander Martinelle, Cogitare Computing
Status: Submitted
Synopsis: Speed across the alien planet dodging your alien captors!
MoruBOOST is a game of timing and luck. Use the robotic guinea pigs speed to dodge enemies and reach the end of the level as fast as possible to gain as many points as possible.
Title: Nightmare 4k
Author: PATAGONIA – Juan Castiñeira
Status: Submitted
Synopsis: Ghosts will take over your dark and scary house, you must escape from them. Your only safe zone is to stay under the light, that’s when the ghosts disappear. Take the key and find the exit door.
Title: Hydrogen
Author: Chris Stanley / Megastyle
Status: Submitted
Synopsis: Taking the form of a traditional ‘brick breaker’, Hydrogen is a game in which you must battle your way through twelve chambers of an alien space station to achieve victory. Use your effector and power spheres in order to decimate all the defence cubes. Liberate canisters containing one of four isotopes of hydrogen fuel, each providing the player with a different and useful ability to help win the day!
Title: Escape from the Metaverse
Author: Space Moguls / Carl-Henrik Skårstedt
Status: In progress
Synopsis: You’re trapped in the metaverse! Escape a fractured universe where gravity is not a constant and try to get the fastest time possible.
Title: Geom4K
Author: Oziphantom
Status: In progress (hopefully I make it)
Synopsis: It’s a twin stick shooter with geometric shapes that hunt you.. Needs two joysticks to play or two mapped to a good enough keyboard in an emulator. Currently supports 3 different enemy types. Hunter, Boxer and Kamikaze! Can currently handle 32 enemies at 25fps, but I will either add “superior hardware” support that hopefully gets it locked 50 or make a new version for the better platform.
Title: Drone Zone
Author: Code/Design: Carleton Handley, GFX/Music: Saul Cross
Status: Submitted
Synopsis: A racing game with a drone. Fly around six tight, small courses inside caves for the fastest time. Whilst you can fly around slowly the game is designed as a time attack game. All courses can be completed in under 20 seconds with practice, I’m hoping somebody can finish the easier course in under 10 seconds after release.
Title: The Revenge of the Blobby Thingies
Author: Martin Piper
Status: Completed
Synopsis: This is you, the other monsters are jealous of your light green colour. Find freedom from the monster factory! Shoot the monsters. There are 65536 types of monsters in this game. Each has their own characteristics and animations.
Title: Jerry Kavinsky versus Space Goblins
Author: Bago Zonde / Commocore
Status: In progress
Synopsis: “Jerry Kavinsky versus Space Goblins ” is going to be a loose tribute to the game “Jim Power”. In the game we play the role of Jerry Kavinsky, a time warp hero whose mission is to rescue the kidnapped President’s daughter from the hands of mutants. Mutant goblins and mutant plant spikes will do everything in their power to stop Kavinsky. On top of that, Kavinsky must be careful not to fall into the abyss. Otherwise he will be forgotten forever. Not mentioning the President’s daughter!
Title: Cavern Drone Race
Author: Geir Straume
Status: In progress
Synopsis: This is a drone racing game, in which you compete against two AI controlled drones. The race takes place in a large cavern, and you have to successfully fly through some checkpoints before completing the race, or you will be disqualified.
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