Retro Video Gamer also gave out their awards for a Game Of The Year – based on public votes, and this time for both C64 and Spectrum. After all, Zeta Wing ended up 4th this time. Place 3 was taken by MW Ultra, while Outrage (both released in cooperation with Psytronik) made it to the 2nd place. Winner of the RVG C64 GOTY Award is Millie & Molly. We send congrats to its creator Carleton Handley and its publishers. The cartridge version by our friends at Bobr Games is also available from Protovision (well, if in stock).

Read the full results here: https://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/rvg-goty-2020-winners-announced

Oziphantom of Protovision released his new game S.P.R.E.R.O., as a contribution to the Only Sprites Competition. This H.E.R.O. inspired title is available as a free download from CSDb: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=198970. If you got a CSDb account, we’d be happy if you could leave a vote – a comment is welcome as well.

Protect your favourite Commodore machines from dust and spills with one of these great looking transparent dust covers. Back in stock are covers for the C64C, C64 breadbin, Datasette and C128D Keyboard models. Order yours before they sell out again!

ROBBO and Hans Kloss are two Polish games originally released on the Atari 8-Bit system that received a C64 port back in 1993. Get the games with an English translation card only from Protovision.

While Deutsche Post has opened up international deliveries to USA and Australia – this is only available via ocean freight with deliveries taking up to 45 days! As we have considerable back orders from customers from both countries, we will be sending out another batch load of orders to our local distributors in both the USA and Australia, using an Express Delivery Service to ensure that orders arrive quickly and securely.

If you are from the USA or Australia and are looking to pick up some of our great products then be quick and place your order by January 25 to ensure that it gets included in the express shipment. After this batch shipment, all future orders from USA and Australia will be sent using the regular Deutsche Post service on offer.

We are pleased to present Oziphantom’s Development Diary for his new Robyn Hood project. This a series of videos sharing the ongoing development on Robyn Hood, providing lots of interesting insights and showing the frustrations that developers typically experience when tackling large game projects.

The first episode covers Oziphantom’s vision for the game and can be viewed here:

We are happy to announce that Zeta Wing by Sarah Jane Avory has been voted by the C64 community as the most popular game for 2020. We are very pleased that Protovision was able to secure 3 places in the top 10 (Zeta Wing, MW Ultra and Outrage). Check out the video presentation by Retro Gamer Nation for full results!

Sarah Jane Avory is still adding new items, spells and skills to Briley Witch Chronicles. This is how Smokey recently learned Fishing.
Also, the game has became quite huge in size: 512K cartridge space is already 98% used!

#BrileyWitch #C64 #RPG progress: Smokey has a new skill: Fishing! It's WIP, but here's a little video clip… pic.twitter.com/Ob9qT7aahw

— Sarah Jane Avory (@SarahJaneAvory) January 9, 2021

The results of Indie Retro News C64 Game Awards 2020 have been published… and Protovision has taken out two of the three awards!
Award for the C64 Game of the Year went to MW ULTRA by Covert Bitops while the C64 Budget Game of the Year was awarded to Zeta Wing by Sarah Jane Avory.
We are very happy and congratulate all the other nominees!
For the full article, click here.

Sarah Jane Avory has added additional combat magic to her game Briley Witch Chronicles – in particular, multi-target attacks. However, this feature is also implemented for enemies. Thus, combat becomes much more interesting right away…
Furthermore, the "Difficulty Setting" screen has been reworked again. Currently it looks like this:

#BrileyWitch #C64 #RPG progress: latest WIP on the Difficulty select screen: pic.twitter.com/wK6zveRd3k

— Sarah Jane Avory (@SarahJaneAvory) January 8, 2021