We have featured a variety of exclusives on Indie Retro Information all through the previous couple of years, however this newest information replace for the Commodore 64 is bound to excite! As we have lately been knowledgeable by way of Fb as a heads up by Hayesmaker64, who’s the creator of this upcoming recreation. That he will likely be releasing as of subsequent week, ‘Legend of Wilf’; a model new arcade journey, with roots in traditional C64 platformers as a homage to Elite System’s Kokotoni Wilf. To coincide with this unique information story, not solely do we have now some footage of this upcoming recreation, however we have got some extra data direct from Hayesmaker as properly!
Legend of Wilf is a model new arcade journey, with roots in traditional C64 platformers. It’s a homage to Elite System’s Kokotoni Wilf, nonetheless all of the code, graphics, controls and choices have been coded from scratch to present the sport a extra fashionable really feel. Coded by hayesmaker64 – it has taken 3 years of growth on and off. And it’s his 2nd C64 recreation after 2020’s Mario Cement Manufacturing unit C64.
You play as Tony Wilf, younger apprentice to the aged Grand Wizard Ulrich who has found the areas of the legendary Dragon Amulet – which has been scattered by time and house. Ulrich nonetheless has some tips up his sleeves, as he duties Wilf to get the items for him – by first granting him the ability of flight, after which sending him again to 10 million BC to get the primary of the Dragon Amulet items. That includes lovely chunky multi-colour graphics, nice music, over 50 screens and a number of problem ranges. Are you able to get well the Dragon Amulet, and save all of Northern Europe?
To be able to compress all of the screens, graphics and music right into a single load Hayesmaker64 used Tony Savona’s superior TS Crunch utility: https://github.com/tonysavon/TSCrunch
Credit:
- Code: hayesmaker64
- Music: Stepz and Dmx87
- Graphics: Stacbats
- Compression: Tony Savona
- Testing: Wilf Staff
Legend of Wilf will likely be launched as an Straightforward Flash cartridge, and can work on all C64 inventory {hardware} and will likely be launched on itch.io subsequent week at https://hayesmaker64.itch.io