CSSCGC 2020

[PROSM]

The return of the famous, the one and only...

http://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/

More details and official announcements to follow...

[R-Tape]

Stout fellow! I'll email Chris Young to make sure he's aware and doesn't duplicate (I don't think he was going to).

[PROSM]

Well, the web-pages are fully uploaded and done and dusted. Have a look over at connosoft.com to see the full HTML/CSS glory! (clear your cache if you've already viewed the page, so that you get the updated stylesheets. Press Ctrl+F5 to do a full reload.)

I will be considering submissions submitted from the 1st of January 2020 onwards. Get crackin'!

Stout fellow! I'll email Chris Young to make sure he's aware and doesn't duplicate (I don't think he was going to).

Thanks, I notice he's already updated his Crap Game Finder.

[R-Tape]

Beautiful. GeoCities lives, and The Shamen are back in the charts.

I might well enter this year

[Kweepa]

Excellent, good man!
I have some ideas floating around...

[Joefish]

I might submit some floaters too...

[PeteProdge]

I was going to try for this, had an idea for the past few months, but it would have breached your 5th rule. (And would have been beautifully puerile and childish.)

[PROSM]

I was going to try for this, had an idea for the past few months, but it would have breached your 5th rule. (And would have been beautifully puerile and childish.)

I'm interested to hear what it would have been. Why not shoot me an email or a PM? The bit about the hosting provider is only to stop people from going near illegal stuff; I doubt your idea will cross the line (maybe if Fahnn was writing a game it would... ).

[+3code]

Why not .DSK format and +3/+2A support?

[Joefish]

I'm sure some simple name and graphics changes can avoid any complications.
And there's a proud tradition of mockery in Speccy games.

[PROSM]

Why not .DSK format and +3/+2A support?

Whoops! I had meant to include it in my list, but got distracted trying to find the file extension for the Microdrive! Webpage is updated now.

I can tell by your username that this may have caused you some distress

[PROSM]

The submissions are now open! You have until the 24th of December to submit your game.

Good luck!

[PROSM]

Well, we have the first game of the competition: "Escape the Room" by Stephen Smith! You can see the full review here:

https://connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/001.html

Also, we have a Twitter account! Why not give us a follow?

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Also, we have a Twitter account! Why not give us a follow?

Followed!

[R-Tape]

A promising start. I like the attention to detail—the author probably started off with a GOSUB routine that created a totally random map, and was so diligent he replaced it with the same map everytime, and a superfluous and mispelled "generting map" pause.

[PROSM]

A promising start. I like the attention to detail—the author probably started off with a GOSUB routine that created a totally random map, and was so diligent he replaced it with the same map everytime, and a superfluous and mispelled "generting map" pause.

Most of these crap games start with "good" intentions...

Also, we have the second entry, by our very own [mention]druellan[/mention], titled Aliengun!

https://connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/002.html

[druellan]

That review is so on point that I can't stop smiling, thank you very much [mention]PROSM[/mention] , sir!

[SteveSmith]

Well, we have the first game of the competition: "Escape the Room" by Stephen Smith! You can see the full review here:

https://connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/001.html

Thanks for the great review, probably funnier and more entertaining than the game!

BTW, I've never actually heard of a Pentagon until I read your review. I just downloaded Speccy and selected a 128K machine (mainly to make the coding so much easier than on a 48K).

[PROSM]

That review is so on point that I can't stop smiling, thank you very much @PROSM , sir!

Thanks for the great review, probably funnier and more entertaining than the game!

Thanks for the kind words!

BTW, I've never actually heard of a Pentagon until I read your review. I just downloaded Speccy and selected a 128K machine (mainly to make the coding so much easier than on a 48K).

I imagine you might have misclicked and selected Pentagon instead. They look very similar to each other when they boot up (due to the Pentagon's ROMs being an illegal hack-up of the original Sinclair ones). The only way to tell the difference is that the Pentagon menu has an option to boot into TR-DOS, a disk-based operating system.

[djnzx48]

It's because the snapshot is in SNA format, which is designed to support the 48K Spectrum and the Pentagon 128.

[Guesser]

Why not .DSK format and +3/+2A support?

Whoops! I had meant to include it in my list, but got distracted trying to find the file extension for the Microdrive! Webpage is updated now.

I can tell by your username that this may have caused you some distress

I thought maybe it was another leespoons situation and I was going to have to dig out my "rip protection" code from advanced screechy seagull torturig simulator again

[PROSM]

Quite a controversial game this time, with Suicide by an "edgy nine-year-old" version of [mention]djnzx48[/mention].

http://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/003.html

[R-Tape]

I really like seeing these old games revived. I wonder if druellan’s and djnzx’s games would have made it onto the cassette50 BITD. I’m going to guess ‘nearly’.

I don’t know how old dru was for Aliengun, but djnzx’s is actually pretty good for a 9 year old (bit mad though!). I think I was just about toilet trained at that age.

These crazy guys are really angry because they can’t find any clothes for nerds in hamburger stores.

There's something deliciously crap about this sentence. The kind of thing we couldn't make up if we tried now.

[druellan]

I don’t know how old dru was for Aliengun

I was 12(*), and the idea was to do some kind of fullscreen duel game, using a preloaded screen and some UDG to move the enemy hand, but never got that far

(*) Now that I think about it I was probably older, but the game has no date attached and it is on a disc full of other games around 1985/1986 so...

[PROSM]

Well, we have two new games! Another Fruit Machine Simulator by Juan F. Ramirez and Explosion by Luny.