Cymon’s Games - Letter Guess
[Cymon's Games is a site ran by Joe Larson and hosted by Retro Remakes with the aim of encouraging folks to dip their toes into coding by providing help, tutorials and type in games for people to learn from.]
One of the simplest games is represented here this week. It’s a game that’s so simple it hardly needs an introduction. A letter is picked and with every guess you are given clues as to whether the hidden letter is higher or lower than your guess. For this sort of game the best strategy can be called “divide and conquer.” By choosing points as close to the middle of where the letter could possibly be to win in the least number of guesses. If it takes you 7 guesses you’re taking too long.
So check out Letter Guess this week on Cymon’s Games.
Ben There, Dan That!
[Rather than write something twice about Ben There,Dan That! I'm cross posting the post I made elsewhere about it so you'll have to excuse the fact it's not our usual RR gumph. We've been having a fair bit of fun with this in our forum anyway and I've since completed the game and enjoyed it thoroughly]
Retro Remakes 2008 Competition
Hello, just a quick post to let everyone know that come September we’ll be launching The Official 2008 Retro Remakes Competition. Yes, I know I said “never again” about 400 times but the truth is, I miss them when they’re not around. So I’m going to make a serious mental note that when the time comes at the end of this competition and I’m short on hair to say “ok, well that’s out the way till the next time…”
As usual, we won’t be revealing too much in the way of details until September 1st when the rules go live. This goes for time limits, prizes and the whole gubbins. It’s all top secret until then.
We’ve already got a nice prize pool building up with part of the top prize being something rather quite special indeed (we’ve got two of them actually, but that’s by the by), and we’re (well, Caff is) hard at work trying to make the prizes even better than last time.
If you’re a kind application developer, a generous shareware author, a magazine publisher, a games publisher, run an online store of some variety or you think you’ve got something you fancy throwing into the prize pot (or you know someone who just might) then please, drop Caff a line (tck BANANA tcksoft.co.uk - removing the fruit and replacing with an at sign, obviously). We get a ruck of press coverage during competition times with crazy traffic to match, you get a lovely spot on the sponsors page in every single game that comes out of the competition as well as a permanent spot on our competition pages with a click through to your site. More importantly, you get our eternal love, affection and thanks. Just think of the rapture that could bring all by itself.
Last time, the good folks round these parts managed to not only write an absolute ruck of fantastic games, but also came out with the most accessible game outside of academia. Who knows what sort of brilliant madness will emerge from this years? I don’t, but I’m sure as heck looking forward to finding out.
Retro Gamer #53
Chunky pixels sir? Suits you. Another month and another issue of Retro Gamer falling onto my doormat with a satisfying flop. I forgot to post about the last issue so apologies - well this months cover is a lot nicer anyway with lots of big chunky Konami graphics filling most of the space and really screaming out… “I’m retro and I love it!”
Cymon’s Games: Battleship
[Cymon's Games is a site run by Joe Larson and hosted by Retro Remakes with the aim of encouraging folks to dip their toes into coding by providing help, tutorials and type in games for people to learn from.]
The game of Battleship is one that probably doesn’t require an introduction. Two teams each with 5 ships. The players place their ships on the board, hiding their locations from their enemies. Then each player takes turns firing at their opponent’s hidden ships. If you strike a hit you then know where a ship is and you can keep firing at it until it is sunk. The first player to locate and sink off of their enemies ships wins.
Ant Attack
If Sky One showed a program about this classic game by Sandy White it would be called “When Ants Attack!” and be cheesier than a ton of Edam. Steven Knock has bravely ventured into the cursed city of Antesher and survived to tell the tale, bringing back this remake for your pleasure.
