Jakob (Protovision) and Chester (Knights of Bytes) answered a couple of questions from the German developer magazine ByteGame for an interview recently published. Differences in game development between then and now are discussed as well as the fascination to develop for the C64.
www.bytegame.de/2022/03/08/64kbyte-gamepower-interview-mit-protovision

The BastichB 64K YouTube channel is one of the current premier channels for modern day C64 related content. His latest video looks at the Top 20 C64 games from the past decade and we are excited to see that 4 out of the top 5 spots were filled by Protovision titles! If you want to see some of the best new C64 games around then check out this video by BastichB 64K.

Galencia is one of the best action shooters to come across the C64 in the last 30 years and you now have the option to pick up a special edition of the game featuring both the diskette and cassette in one box from the Protovision Shop. But be quick to place your order as stock are limited.

The highly popular C64 shooter Galencia that won Game Of The Year in 2017 is still a hot product – all versions of the game are available again from Protovision now. Buy here.

All editions of Sam’s Journey and Galencia are back in stock! This includes the cartridge edition of Sam’s Journey – it is now available again from our online shop.  Buy here

If you want to play Galencia, the colourful Galaga inspired shoot-em-up, on your theC64 Mini there are no complicated procedures necessary. Just upgrade to the new firmware 1.2.0 and Galencia shows up in the Games Carousel of you theC64 Mini.

Get the update here

Buy the boxed version here

If you want to know where the developers of Galencia got their inspiration and how Galencia differs from its predecessors, then the first episode of New Retro is what you should watch:

https://youtu.be/I_4lXV6A1No

And in case you missed the successful Kickstarter there is a limited time to still get the Special Backers Version including extras via IndieGoGo.

We produced a new batch of Galencia tapes.
The C64 shooter is now available on all mediums: tape, disc or cartridge.

You can get the tape version by itself or in a protovision carboard box.

The C64 emulator kernal64 now supports our standard cartridge format, gmod2.

This means that Sam’s Journey and Galencia cartridges will now run with the emulator as well.

We have restocked Sam, Galencia and Bear. Also Rescuing Orc is available.

We are working on restocking Heroes & Cowards and D42-Adventure System with a multi-lingual box design (the old one was German only).

We are close to completing the long list of orders we’ve had, and shall be returning to faster delivery times soon.

We are very proud that BOTH games that we have published in 2017 have been selected as ‚Game of the Year‘ by different juries.

The C64 platformer Sam’s Journey was crowned GOTY by the (very informative!) portal Indieretronews and the C64 action shooter Galencia got first in the poll of the Reset magazine, with Planet Golf and Sam’s Journey right behind.

You know why we love making C64 games? Because we have the best customers in the world!
See how these great personalities treat Galencia as they should:

Jason.. what can I say, the packaging on #Galencia is just awesome! Thank you and @Protovision64 for all your hard work on this and I am proud to have this in my collection. pic.twitter.com/x6nwexK1r9

— Sanxion – TFW8B.com (@sanxion) December 25, 2017

@JasonNapalm Have a look at our Galencia holiday tree at the office! pic.twitter.com/crwQ7MLebv

— Zach Collier (@zachcollier) December 18, 2017

https://twitter.com/JasonNapalm/status/942836992785682433

Wow. Owning this brand new physical C64 game feels like being part of 8-bit gaming history. Big up @Protovision64 pic.twitter.com/JjhMOSqJLY

— Flynn's Retro Gaming (@FlynnRetroGames) December 8, 2017

The disk, cartridge and tape versions of the C64 shooter Galencia can now be ordered
to earthly destinations.

This is also the debut of our new cardboard box and we’re anxious to read your reviews and comments about the package.

The first boxes already arrived at various destinations around the world!

We are more than happy that those who received their package are very, very pleased.
See the first photos and comments about Galencia and the full package on our Twitter account and order Galencia from our Shop.

If you use your hard earned coin to get the disk & cartridge box of C64 shooter Galencia,
we are throwing in *two* Galencia posters (different motives) free of charge!

This is a limited offer and is valid only UNTIL END OF YEAR.

Buy Galencia now!

A few of our hand crafted cardboard boxes suffered damage during transport. We are now offering these boxes to you at a reduced price. Everything is complete inside the box and the media works perfectly, only the packaging has (small) flaws, like scuffing marks for example.

Sam’s Journey and Galencia are available at a 5 Euros discount in our Games: Offers category.

Galencia can now be obtained from the Protovision shop, and we are revealing the
feelies that ship with the game.

Take a look at the glass coaster, the bee key ring, the two available posters and all the different versions of Galencia: disk boxed, cartridge boxed, tape boxed, tape without box, combined disk & cartridge box.

Galencia comes with a full color 16 pages manual that stands out as every page is styled beautifully.

The Galaga style C64 shooter Galencia will be available within the next weeks.

Everything is ready, but we are still waiting for the boxes to arrive, before we can make Galencia available to you.

We expect them to arrive in two weeks.
Galencia will be available on disk, cartridge and cassette!

We have a new Demo version of Galencia by Jason Aldred available on our homepage. The new demo is technically updated and is PAL/NTSC compatible. A new PAL and NTSC compatible version is also available at itch.io now.

As some people voiced the need for buying Galencia on Cassette, we are considering releasing Galencia not only on disk and cartridge, but also on tape.

If you want a cassette version of Galencia, let us know via our poll!