Your winner of MSXdev''08 is?

These early results seems to confirm my opinion... I personally think that the we'll see a race between "Deep Dungeon" and "La Corona Encantada" for the first place. All the other games are -technically speaking- impressive but IMHO they're just not as fun to play as these two (Sorry)

BTW I gave my vote to "Deep Dungeon", because I think that the "roguelike" genre used by the game is a more original concept (well, at least on the MSX of course). While I enjoyed playing "La Corona Encantada" I think that is too similar to "Phantomas Saga: Infinity" (also made by Karoshi Games)

they're just not as fun to play as these two
Maybe your intellectual capacity is not high enough to appreciate peek-a-boo, but its a quite liked game to some new MSXers.

*EDIT* Forgot the smiley. Here it is:

The target is really kids between 1 and 5 years old so of course I understand that that game isn't fun to play for anyone that are active here on MRC. But it is a fun game for the target audience (at least amongst our young testers as long as they kept focused on a computer game ).

I for example don't like the La Corona Encantada genre at all, but I still think its one of the best games this year, in fact the best game in many aspects. So fun to play and best game is not necessarily the same thing. As for playability, my personal favorite is Sp8 invaders.

But I must say that peek-a-boo is in no way intended to be a tech demo, In fact its not that techy at all. But I do have a 1.5 year old daughter that happens to love Elmo, so I thought it was appropriate to make a an MSX game that she could play. We actually did focus quite a lot on playability and ease of use for young kids when we did the game and by judging our kids response it seems to have succeeded. Anyways, just some background...

My baby likes Peek-a-boo (actually he hammers on the keyboard too much and this prevents me to let him continue).
One note: I would have added a state to the key press, e.g. allowing Elmo appears only on key release.
Now if the baby keeps the pressed keys (e.g. because he parked a toy truck of 20Kg on the computer) the game keeps going on.

My two babies like Hose Diogo Martinez - The Bussas Quest!

i have really appreciated "Danger Tower", wich is IMHO very fun to play, even if too difficult for my poor reflexes....

hose diogo for the win!

I reached level 6 in Danger Tower on my TR and it seems a clean and polished game.
Greetings! Only with my TR I noted the good music FM sound.
What kind of tracker and player do you use?
On bluemsx I cannot activete the FM PAC, neither when emulating a TR,
but it is perfectly detected on the real HW.
Any explanation?

I voted Tomb of Genghis Khan even if it´s a bit too difficult. But hang on, game became easier when I read you need to use SHIFT key too...

I wish that author would fix that unfair "jet set willy - style bug", which kills every life of jonny when he drops into some death trap (can be found on room 3). It should be easy to fix it, just make computer remember the last room entered before death trap room and remember screen location where player is positioned when entering that room.

Another thing what could be fixed is sprite collision detection which seems easily happen to kill player even there looks to be several pixels between player and monster. And I am not talking about that acid drop, acid drops are easy to dodge.

To the author and to everybody else: Tomb of Genghis Khan is NOT too difficult game. If you are person, who wants everything NOW, then it is not your game. It is somewhat easy game when you just want to look each room for little moment and look what the monsters are doing.

And I like it´s half spectrum - half msx - screen 2 look! Music is surely composed by same guy who did musical score for Caverns of Titan.

Thanks for a good game, I wish some sequel to this!

Runner-up is SP8, thanks to it´s Atari 2600 look and nice playability!! I wish sequel to this too! (with Atari 2600 like sounds, thank you!)

But I thank everybody who programmed games for MSX-dev(s). No matter if it´s BASIC or machine code game, game is game!

Call me schizoid if you want. No, don´t call me, I´ll call you...!

well, I like MSX too...

but of course I like MSX look much more than Spectrum look, especially on when graphics start to get monochromic, but colourful spectrum graphics can look nice, especially when aided with sprites.

I don't understand "I Need Speed" having zero points.

Personally, I really suck at racing games, so I didn't get too far.

But to me this game surely has quality. You can see that there's effort put into this.
If you like racing games, look at it.

Well, those votes for Hose Diogo Martinez - The Bussas Quest maybe should be regarded as 'protest' votes.

I can't blame them. There you are, as enthousiastic MSX user waiting for new games free to download.
I mean, those developers are here to produce free games, right?
Any game and its program/graphics/music are made in one day anyway. It means nothing.

And what do these so-called "MSX developers" make with their free time for all those dedicated users?
Not even a simple MSX1 Solid Snake/SD-Snatcher in 32 KB!
I mean, Christ, do I even have to click with my mouse to download those free games?
Tsss.

That lazy-ass, underskilled bastards! Killing their motivation only serves them right.
This way, people won't be deluded anymore to sacrifice their family time to make shitty free games anymore.
No games at all is better than shite games one can only poop upon without producing anything yourself, so it's clearly a win-win situation.

I see!

Well, the jury's still out, so to see. Surely they'll recognize the quality.

Are you good in racing games, hap? I suck at them. Maybe except for Road Fighter, but hey...

Congrats Metalbrain.

DemonSeed+ARTRAG+huey:

and yes, I like(d) racing games.