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Running right now:
Celebrating 30 years of Richard/TND, since the first release in 1995.
Submissions: 1st September 2025 - 31st December 2025
Voting: 8th January - 31st January 2026
Results: February 2026
SEUCK COMPO 2025 - Part 2 is here
Click here for more info
25t December 2025
Although TND is NOT doing a proper Christmas update this year. I am very pleased to announce a new version of the SEUCK Title Screen Maker. It is perhaps one of the best versions up to date also. SEUCK Title Screen Maker V2.0 allows you to not only make a new front end for your own game creations made with SEUCK or Sideways SEUCK. It also has a built in options to enhance your SEUCK games more. The most important feature is that it is now possible to link your finished title screen direectly onto a finished SEUCK game without having to use a machine code monitor, or Action Replay - but you will need your game to saved to disk as 2 files from "Save as finished game" from SEUCK's storage menu .
Other features include fixing some of the bugs that are common in SEUCK. For example, the players can now spawn at exactly the same position they died from. There is also a smart bomb option, where on shooting an enemy set by a number of points, you can destroy all enemies on screen. There is also the random firing replacement option, where enemies use clockwise rotational firing. Other options include fixing the Sideways SEUCK scrolling flicker and also looping enemy movement after storing them. As usual there are two example games complete with assets, a full user guide and additional code snippets. Hopefully this version of the enhancement tool makes a nice Christmas present for you all.
SEUCK Title Screen Maker V2.0
I would to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2026.
21st December 2025
TND is NOT doing a
Christmas update this year, but I do have a nice little SEUCK Compo
entry I have made. This time it is a game made using Martin Piper's
Left Scrolling SEUCK. Bubble Duck is a fun little arcade adventure,
featuring a few in game enhancements (not too many since it is made as
a compo standard). You play the role of a cute yellow duck, inside its
bubble, who is in search of alernative transport, as a big fat shark
knocked the SS Quack right into the abyss. The poor wetland creature
has to take a long and dangerous journey inside a bubble and he must
watch out and fight the deadly underwater plants and creatures and the
fat sharks. Prepare to enter the abyss.
6th December 2025
With Christmas just
around the corner (well just over 3 weeks in fact), the SEUCK Compo
ends up with a Halloween themed Game. What?!?!. This is Pinov Vox's
final SEUCK Compo entry for this competition, created using the
Sideways Scrolling SEUCK Left (2008 version). The game is called
"Puppix - The Cabbage Forest".
You play the role as hapless sailor, Puppix, who is coming home from work, only to discover that a giant pumpkin appeared and casted an evil shadow around his home town. He sets off to meet his beloved, Olga, but finds that her house is now haunted and Olga is scared. The haunted house was caused by an evil spell cast by the evil witch Evilia and mother of Puppix's arch nemesis, Butch. Puppix must now head off into the Cabbage Forest in search of the evil Evilia, but there will be a few more spooky surprises on the way - and Butch, who dreams about nothing else, but dragging poor Olga and knocking Puppix out.
5th November 2025
September 2025
August 2025
The SEUCK Compo 2025 voting phase has drawn to a close. Results are being collated and will be revealed next week, and the prize package will be launched some time in the summer. Unlike the last contest, there will only be one winner's enhancement prize for personal time reasons (where focusing on Scene World issue 36, and its special features.
But what about the good news? Well, I am pleased to announce that to mark the 30th anniversary of TND (although it was a different name beforehand) there will be a second C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 launched in September 2025 through until December 2025. All will be revealed when it gets launched. However, for now. Have a great weekend and I shall see you next time with the compo results.
SEUCK Compo 2025
10th May 2025
SEUCK Compo Entry #14 - Rastaman by Rodrigo Yeotch
To close the competition, we have a cute cartoon game inspired by Classic Reggae, written by Rodrigo Yeowtch. You play the role of Rastaman who'se objective is to save his farm and village from invaders. His only defence is a supply of coconuts. Throw them at the baddies to scare them away.
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Rastaman
Entry submissions for the SEUCK Compo 2025 are now closed.
The submissions for the SEUCK Compo 2025 have now closed. It is now time to vote for your favourite entry. Any late entries that come in during the vioting phase can still be added to the compo page but does not qualify for the competition. First of all, make sure you download all of the compo entries individually and then afterwards make your way to the voting form and score each game individually. Then submit.You have until 31st May 2025 to submit your votes, and in early June 2025 the results will be revealled.Then the digital compo prize pack will be ready later on in the Summer.
I would like to say a huge thank you to all of the entrants who have supported this year's competition. There is a chance we might be doing it all again the same time next year.
7th May 2025
SEUCK Compo Entry #13 - Star Skimmer by Alf Yngve
There is one thing I always loved in a SEUCK compo, and that is a really cool space blaster. Well, Alf Yngve delivers exactly that. Alf has also teamed up with Martin Piper to give us Star Skimmer, a vertical scrolling blaster for 1 player only. Star Skimmer has you playing the role of a fearless pilot from the Federation. Cole Skimmer is on a very deadly mission which is to stop the evil Nitwup empire from hatching a plot to take over Planet Earth. The only way to do this is appoach the surface of each passing asteroid and destroy the enemy bases. However, he will not be alone and the aliens are watching his every move. Also there are captured astronauts to be rescued. Star Skimmer features some neat SEUCK Redux enhancements which Martin has included, but I will let you work some of these out for yourself.
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Star Skimmer
5th May 2025
SEUCK Compo Entry #12 - Spy Kombat by Pinov Vox
Here is the latest submission for the SEUCK Compo 2025. The deadline was extended until this coming Friday night, then on Saturday the voting phase begins. Today's entry is an espionage thriller, called Spy Kombat, written by Pinov Vox (featuring some exclusive title music for the game by me). The game was made using the Sideways Scrolling SEUCK. You play the role of Shancky, a secret agent, whose headquarters has been ransacked by an evil spy, Mr. X. Mr. X has stolen the "Shadow" organization's defence plans, and threatens to use it as an offensive weapon that could devastate the whole world. Mr. X has also set a cunning plan which is to send his henchmen to take over the HQ, while he plots an evil plan. Poor old Shancky must expose his "Shadow" organization and obliterate the evil henchmen and retrieve back the plans from Mr. X and destroy them in the office shredder. It is time for some fun arcade action and shoot down the bad guys.
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Spy Kombat
There has been a case where specific games made using SEUCK feature a problem, push scrolling games in particular, where the player gets stuck on an unpassable/death background character. This makes it more impossible to allow the player to progress through SEUCK games, even further. Luckily however, TND is here with an updated tip on how to spawn the player on to the last position the player has died. Oklay, so I did this before via an assembly rouytine. Now this time I have made an Action Replay M/C monitor tips version of this trick. If you have an Actiuon Replay/Retro Replay cartridge available, why not give this trick a try.
Player death spawn trick
1st May 2025
SEUCK Compo Submissions deadline expired - but we are still accepting late entries.
If you were/are working on a new SEUCK game specially for this year's competition - or perhaps you have an old SEUCK game you have written but never released it before. Then please read this good news. Although the deadline for compo submissions have expired, the Compo is still allowing submissions to submitted to TND's webmaster until 9th May 2025 11:59 GMT +0 (UK+Ireland time). The vote sheet will be live and ready for you to cast your votes some time on 10th May 2025. If any submissions are submitted after the voting form has been published, then the compo entry will not be accepted but the entrant will of course be advised how they could release their game.
The C64 SEUCK Compo 2025
We have yet another entry for the C64 SEUCK Compo 2025, which is called Barratolini, or translated to English, Tiny Jars, one of Recycled Music's final entries for this year's competition. This is a funny game for one or two players in which you play one of the two experiments (A tiny human, or a slimy green worm) who both run around the shape-changing maze collecting as many hearts as they can before they lose all of their lives. The best way to play this game is in two player mode, and the winner is the player who gets the highest score out of both players.
Barratolini
27th April 2025
SEUCK Compo Entry #11 - Barratolini (Tiny Jars) by Recycled Music
We have yet another entry for the C64 SEUCK Compo 2025, which is called Barratolini, or translated to English, Tiny Jars, one of Recycled Music's final entries for this year's competition. This is a funny game for one or two players in which you play one of the two experiments (A tiny human, or a slimy green worm) who both run around the shape-changing maze collecting as many hearts as they can before they lose all of their lives. The best way to play this game is in two player mode, and the winner is the player who gets the highest score out of both players.
Barratolini
ATTENTION - SEUCK Compo 2025 Submission deadline News!
This is a very important announcement that the deadline for this year's SEUCK Compo is coming very close. The deadline for compo submissions should be no later than 30th April 2025, of course while the voting form is still being processed for the competition, there is possibilty that late entries might be accepted until of course the voting form is ready, otherwise the games will be placed in the outside compo category or the TND contributor's page.I would like to say a huge thank you to everybody who has contributed to this year's competition. It has been great fun checking out the entries and making new music for some of the games.
24th April 2025
Tape Master Pro V5.1 released
The latest version of Tape Master Pro has been released. This is an improved updated version of Tape Master Pro V5. Which is now currently V5.1. There are a couple of additional options added to the tape mastering tool. One of which adds two more border schemes during loading from tape. The other of which allows disable scroll text and loading text and switch the screen off before the picture loads. Also the layout for the optional flashing sprite position editor has been updated slightly. :)
Tape Master Pro V5.1
18th April 2025
SEUCK Compo Entry #10 - Gnom by Rodrigo Yeowtch
How would you like to go out into the great outdoors and go hunting for those Easter Bunnies? Well, this game sort of fits this. As we are currently very close to eating scrumptious chocolate Easter Eggs. Rodrigo Yeowtch delivers his second submission, Gnom. Where you are a garden gnome, on a quest to save your gardens from evil demons. Armed with a blue boomerang (which obviously does not come back). You set off through your the garden into a deadly underworld, where demons roam. Pick up mushrooms, and hunt for the bunnies - although, to be honest, you will not get any chocolate eggs from them. :)
Gnom
13th April 2025
SEUCK Compo Entry #8 - Poltergeist Hellschool by Rodrigo Yeowtch
The next entry for the SEUCK Compo 2025 comes from Rodrigo Yeowtch, a newcomer to the SEUCK compo. He has submitted his very first compo entry which is called Poltergeist Hellschool. This is a fun vertical push scrolling arcade adventure, based in a spooky school. You play a hapless schoolboy, Toshiba, who is on a quest to save Sharp High School from being destroyed by the evil power of the poltergeists. Armed with a text book, you attempt to throw the book at the ghosts, and school bullies. You also need to rescue the classmates from the evil which lurks inside the school.
Poltergeist Hellschool
SEUCK Compo Entry #9 - Captain Ishtar Begins by Alf Yngve
We have a second entry from Alf Yngve, which is a prequel to the very first episode of Captain Ishtar. This game also features full in game enhancements mastered by Magovinna using Martin Piper's SEUCK Redux engine. Captain Ishtar Begins is based on the planet Mars, where she dives into a mech suit and attempts to save her people, The Federation, against an evil empire of green tentacled aliens known as the Nitwup Empire. She must travel across enemy owned territory and destroy everything in sight and collect power pods for extra lives. This game is big, even the sprites are big - and so is the battle. It is time to go and kick those green tentacled alien backsides out of Mars. Hell yeah!!!
Captain Ishtar Begins
5th April 2025
March 2025
A new SEUCK School update has been added to the TND web site. This time it is based on preparing and making a new front end with aid of the SEUCK Background editor, an Action Replay, and a whole lot of coding fun. That's right. It is time to transfer the old front ends provided by SEUCK into something much cooler with a snazzy logo, colourful credits page, with scrolltext and some music. Then we place it onto a SEUCK game, like I have done with Alf Yngve's excellent classic, SuperStrike (and I even made a new tune for it). :)
SEUCK School - New title Screen feature
The next installment (in April or May) will feature making a new front end using a colourful bitmap logo and custom charsets.
Due to time limitations (preparing the latest SEUCK School update), the SEUCK Compo 2025 entries recently submitted today will be launched next weekend.
8th March 2025
The SEUCK Compo 2025 continues with yet another entry for the competition. This time it is a vertical push scroller by Pinov Vox called "Bang City". In this game you play the role of a bounty hunter. Armed with a rifle, you set off into Bang City on a mission to clear the dangerous streets from those armed bad guys. Good luck!
Bang City
February 2025
Alf
Yngve entertains us with a new entry for the TND C64 SEUCK Compo 2025.
The game is called "4000 Kung Fu Maniacs - The Twerk of Destiny". This
is a hilarious enhanced SEUCK creation using Martin Piper's adaptation
of the "Sideways Scrolling SEUCK" and this game doesn't half pack a
punch. You play the role of either the Master of Awesome, or his
trainer, the Master of Exposition, who are off out for the evening to a
night club to watch a breakdancing competition - only to find out they
just missed their bus. So, they set off by foot, only to realise that a
series of crazy ninjas are out to stop them.
4,000 Kung Fu Maniacs
15th February 2025
TND
has launched a new C64 game. Canyon Tank Duel is a "no thrills" duel
game for 1 or 2 players, which has been made as part of the Lemon64
games coding tutorial "Fun and Games Programming in Assembly - Part 2".
Two rivals board inside two large heavy armoured tanks and are ready to
do battle against each other to prove who is the best! The battle is
based on both sides on top of a canyon. The tanks can fire their shots
at their opponents and must completely drain their opponent's tank.
After one more shot, their tank is toast. Of course the opponent can
return the same favour. There is also a drone (from a well known
retailer, who we prefer not to mention) that dispatches power ups. The
game features game options for music and sound effects, also some
graphics and sprites by Pinov Vox. Source code has also been included.
So you can explore how the game is made.
Canyon Tank Duel
4th February 2025
Running right now:
Celebrating 30 years of Richard/TND, since the first release in 1995.
Submissions: 1st September 2025 - 31st December 2025
Voting: 8th January - 31st January 2026
Results: February 2026
SEUCK COMPO 2025 - Part 2 is here
Click here for more info
December 2025
25t December 2025
New SEUCK Enhancement tool SEUCK Title Screen Maker V2.0 released
Although TND is NOT doing a proper Christmas update this year. I am very pleased to announce a new version of the SEUCK Title Screen Maker. It is perhaps one of the best versions up to date also. SEUCK Title Screen Maker V2.0 allows you to not only make a new front end for your own game creations made with SEUCK or Sideways SEUCK. It also has a built in options to enhance your SEUCK games more. The most important feature is that it is now possible to link your finished title screen direectly onto a finished SEUCK game without having to use a machine code monitor, or Action Replay - but you will need your game to saved to disk as 2 files from "Save as finished game" from SEUCK's storage menu .
Other features include fixing some of the bugs that are common in SEUCK. For example, the players can now spawn at exactly the same position they died from. There is also a smart bomb option, where on shooting an enemy set by a number of points, you can destroy all enemies on screen. There is also the random firing replacement option, where enemies use clockwise rotational firing. Other options include fixing the Sideways SEUCK scrolling flicker and also looping enemy movement after storing them. As usual there are two example games complete with assets, a full user guide and additional code snippets. Hopefully this version of the enhancement tool makes a nice Christmas present for you all.
SEUCK Title Screen Maker V2.0
I would to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2026.
21st December 2025
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - Entry #10 - Bubble Duck by TND Games
6th December 2025
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - Entry #9 - Puppix - The Cabbage Forest
You play the role as hapless sailor, Puppix, who is coming home from work, only to discover that a giant pumpkin appeared and casted an evil shadow around his home town. He sets off to meet his beloved, Olga, but finds that her house is now haunted and Olga is scared. The haunted house was caused by an evil spell cast by the evil witch Evilia and mother of Puppix's arch nemesis, Butch. Puppix must now head off into the Cabbage Forest in search of the evil Evilia, but there will be a few more spooky surprises on the way - and Butch, who dreams about nothing else, but dragging poor Olga and knocking Puppix out.
5th November 2025
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - Entry #8 - Doom Mine Adventure by TND Games
Forget
bonfire night, it is time for yet another fun entry for the SEUCK Compo
2025 - Part 2. This time it is a vertical push scrolling action
adventure called "Doom Mine Adventure", written exclusively for this
compo by TND Games. You play the role of one or two museum tour guides
and intrepid explorers, who discovered two crystals were stolen from
the Museum of Everything. Although the crystals got stolen, a map was
dropped revealing where the smugglers are taking the crystals to.
Fredrik Fortune and Danny Fame (Two obviously made up names) set off on
a weekend to Tibet and enter a scary and cursed underworld inside the
mine, packed with many evil surprises. Once you enter the mine, there
will be no turning back ... Mwuhahahahaaar!
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - Doom Mine
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - Doom Mine
3rd November 2025
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - Entry #7 - MultisFerix 1 by Pinov Vox
Prepare to
strap yourself in for a flight out of this world and prepare to do
battle against aliens in this 7th entry for this current SEUCK
compo.This time it is MultiSferix 1 by Pinov Vox. A vertical scrolling
blaster, where you control your mean fighting machine that has entered
an enemy alien base. You set off inside the hostile alien ship to shut
it down, but the aliens are ready to defend themselves in order to make
sure no-one gets in their way. You will have 5 levels inside the alien
base to battle through. Watch out for lettered bonuses, they will boost
your score even more. It is time to get trigger happy and blast those
aliens into oblivion, before they do exactly the same thing to you.
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - MultiSferix 1
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - MultiSferix 1
October 2025
17th October 2025
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - Entry #6 - Space Hacked by Pinov Vox
Here arrives
the 6th entry for the C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2. This time we go
mech mad with "Space Hacked". A push scrolling action shoot 'em up
where you help one or two robots escape a deadly labyrinth, which you
have no ideas how you ended up in there. It turns out that an evil
robot OsydX has trapped them inside a deadly matrix inside a dark
realm. Blast the enemy robots and their defences. Avoid walking into
the deadly walls and locate the exit. If you fail in your escape, you
will be trapped forever inside the hacked world and your fate will be
faced as being a dismembered robot. Can you escape the deadly labrynth?
Only one way to find out ..
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - Space Hacked
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - Space Hacked
September 2025
12th September 2025
4th September 2025
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - Entries #3, #4 and #5 - Gnom 2, Gnom 3 and Gnom 4 by Rodrigo Yeowtch
While you have been busy blasting away at
entry 2 last week... A week later, three new entries enter the SEUCK
Compo 2025 - Part 2. Rodrigo Yeowtch brings out three cute adventures
in the Gnom Series (As separate compo entries as there is no rule
against it). After failing to defeat the dark forces in what used to be
a lovely village that thrived of gnomes, birds, rabbits, magic
mushrooms (NO! not that type which you might be thinking of!), etc.
Gnom returns in three more adventures by the names of Gnom 2, Gnom 3
and Gnom 4. His quest is to simply return light back to the dark world
which he has to live in. Armed with a set of boomerangs, he sets off to
fight the evil demons and try to meet up with the creator of the
darkness. ... and no, I don't mean the front runner of a glam rock
group. Hey ho, let's go on an adventure and boomerang those nasties
into oblivion.
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - GNOM 2
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 3 - GNOM 3
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 4 - GNOM 4
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - GNOM 2
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 3 - GNOM 3
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 4 - GNOM 4
4th September 2025
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 - Entry #2 - GallBlazer
The C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 has made
a good start. Only 3 days in and a new entry pops by. Alf Yngve
delivers an original game idea based on surgery, with some SEUCK Redux
ehancements added by Ketil Ronne (Magovina). . This is a game for 1
player only, where your task is to blast away at incoming gallstones
that appear inside the Gall Bladder. On each level, you have a limited
number of shots. Can you save the patient by removing enough
gallstones? Of course this game
should not be taken too seriously and it was made just for fun. Also we
won't go into any more detail about why this game come to life :)
1st September 2025
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 launched + 1 entry Hunt for Invaders
This month marks Richard/TND's 30th
anniversary of his very first game release publicly submitted back in
1995. In order to celebrate the launch of the very first game TND is
very pleased to announce that there is a new SEUCK Compo happening from
today until 31st December 2025. The competition ideas are still the
same as this year's earlier SEUCK Compo 2025. The rules are slightly
updated, but.not much has been changed there. As usual, the aim of the
competition is to create a stunning game created using the Shoot Em Up
Construction Kit or Sideways scrolling SEUCK which the voting audience
might enjoy. As usual the winner of the competition will get their game
enhanced with a new front end and also in game enhancements. At the end
of the competition after the results, there will be the SEUCK Compo
prize pack. The competition has also just started with an entry from
Roberto Ricioppo called "Hunt For Invaders". To find out more about the
compo, please visit the SEUCK Compo 2025 - Part 2 page.
August 2025
31st August 2025
10th August 2025
SEUCK Compo 2025 Prize Pack released + plus, one more surprise
Finally it is here. The C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 finally closes the competition with the traditional SEUCK prize package. This features enhanced versions of winner and the runner ups of the SEUCK Compo 2025 complete with a stunning loading bitmap by Carl Mason, and also new front ends and some in game enhancements. The winner and runner up games are included along with all the competition entries that were submitted to this competition. All fully compiled on D64 and TAP format. There are also a surprise in store for you where it comes to the prize package. All will be revealed when you check out the compo prize section on the SEUCK Compo 2025 page.
Guess what. We'll be running a second SEUCK Compo 2025 to mark the 30th anniversary of my first ever release in 1995 some time tomorrow. All will be revealed tomorrow. But for now, enjoy these new enhanced games and also the bonus stuff on the SEUCK Compo 2025 prize pack.
SEUCK Compo 2025 Prize Pack
New C64 Game: Let's Invade 3 released today
The New Dimension continues to celebrate 30 years a bit earlier than usual with a new C64 game creation. It is Let's Invade 3. A neat Space Invaders variant with a difference. Compared to the previous Let's Invade games (1 and 2). I decided to mellow things down a bit and make it feel like a traditional retro arcade shooter and blend in a touch of modern 80s disco style music and sound effects. There is no trance music, no constant flashing. Instead you get a nice parallax scrolling animated star field. You control a cannon which must defend the galaxy from the evil space aliens. The darker the colours the easier they are to destroy. The light coloured aliens require more than one hit to kill. When shot, the rest of the alien team will get annoyed and attempt to reach their target destination (you) quicker. The aliens drop bombs at random, and also do not move the full length horizontally before moving down towards your cannon. (Well, that'd be Space Invaders wouldn't it?). Fight 40 waves against the invaders to save the galaxy.
This game was made originally for issue 36 of Scene World as part of the game coding, but due to the delay of SWO36 being released. I decided to release this game today.
Let's Invade 3
Finally it is here. The C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 finally closes the competition with the traditional SEUCK prize package. This features enhanced versions of winner and the runner ups of the SEUCK Compo 2025 complete with a stunning loading bitmap by Carl Mason, and also new front ends and some in game enhancements. The winner and runner up games are included along with all the competition entries that were submitted to this competition. All fully compiled on D64 and TAP format. There are also a surprise in store for you where it comes to the prize package. All will be revealed when you check out the compo prize section on the SEUCK Compo 2025 page.
Guess what. We'll be running a second SEUCK Compo 2025 to mark the 30th anniversary of my first ever release in 1995 some time tomorrow. All will be revealed tomorrow. But for now, enjoy these new enhanced games and also the bonus stuff on the SEUCK Compo 2025 prize pack.
SEUCK Compo 2025 Prize Pack
New C64 Game: Let's Invade 3 released today
The New Dimension continues to celebrate 30 years a bit earlier than usual with a new C64 game creation. It is Let's Invade 3. A neat Space Invaders variant with a difference. Compared to the previous Let's Invade games (1 and 2). I decided to mellow things down a bit and make it feel like a traditional retro arcade shooter and blend in a touch of modern 80s disco style music and sound effects. There is no trance music, no constant flashing. Instead you get a nice parallax scrolling animated star field. You control a cannon which must defend the galaxy from the evil space aliens. The darker the colours the easier they are to destroy. The light coloured aliens require more than one hit to kill. When shot, the rest of the alien team will get annoyed and attempt to reach their target destination (you) quicker. The aliens drop bombs at random, and also do not move the full length horizontally before moving down towards your cannon. (Well, that'd be Space Invaders wouldn't it?). Fight 40 waves against the invaders to save the galaxy.
This game was made originally for issue 36 of Scene World as part of the game coding, but due to the delay of SWO36 being released. I decided to release this game today.
Let's Invade 3
10th August 2025
Snake Vs Bomb 2 Updated to V1.2
You may have remembered back in April 2023, I launched a fun addictive game called Snake vs Bomb 2 for the RPI and Phaze 101 Retro Snake Game Jam. This game has been very successful amongst the gamers. However, I had one idea for a power up in mind for quite some time. So now, this has been implemented and got submitted and featured on the Zzap! 64 Micro Action #27 covermount as a full game. The new power up implemented into Snake vs Bomb 2 makes the game even crazy than before. It is a beer bottle, in which the snake picks up and gets drunk for a short period of time. This power up will reverse the player control and also slows the snake down. Now you can check out the new feature for yourself. The game source code has also been provided and should be able to be assembled in ACME or C64Studio. Have fun!
You may have remembered back in April 2023, I launched a fun addictive game called Snake vs Bomb 2 for the RPI and Phaze 101 Retro Snake Game Jam. This game has been very successful amongst the gamers. However, I had one idea for a power up in mind for quite some time. So now, this has been implemented and got submitted and featured on the Zzap! 64 Micro Action #27 covermount as a full game. The new power up implemented into Snake vs Bomb 2 makes the game even crazy than before. It is a beer bottle, in which the snake picks up and gets drunk for a short period of time. This power up will reverse the player control and also slows the snake down. Now you can check out the new feature for yourself. The game source code has also been provided and should be able to be assembled in ACME or C64Studio. Have fun!
July 2025
6th July 2025
SEUCK Compo 2025 Prize Package Update
I have some news about the C64 SEUCK Compo prize package, what is happening and also when the compo prize pack will be launched. First of all, you may have remembered in the SEUCK compo that only one entry will be featuring a new front end and in game enhancements as the main compo prize. In fact, there is more good news for top three entrants. The two runner ups will also be featuring a new title screen presentation and loading bitmap, but will not feature any additional features hardcoded by myself. I have also decided to include a bonus production as a special feature for the prize package. This year I did not get round to entering the C64 SEUCK Compo, so in return I'm making something with it and will be enhancing it with the Scripting Construction Kit, to push things a bit further :) The launch of the compo prize package will be near to the end of August 2025. As usual all entries will be featured on multiple digital disk and tape formats. The top three entrants will feature a tape loader with loading bitmap and music, and the other entries will use a simple tape turbo loader. As usual, I would like to say a huge thank you to all the compo entrants who have participated in the SEUCK Compo 2025. There will be another one in September 2025 to mark the 30th anniversary of my very first ever public game release.
I have some news about the C64 SEUCK Compo prize package, what is happening and also when the compo prize pack will be launched. First of all, you may have remembered in the SEUCK compo that only one entry will be featuring a new front end and in game enhancements as the main compo prize. In fact, there is more good news for top three entrants. The two runner ups will also be featuring a new title screen presentation and loading bitmap, but will not feature any additional features hardcoded by myself. I have also decided to include a bonus production as a special feature for the prize package. This year I did not get round to entering the C64 SEUCK Compo, so in return I'm making something with it and will be enhancing it with the Scripting Construction Kit, to push things a bit further :) The launch of the compo prize package will be near to the end of August 2025. As usual all entries will be featured on multiple digital disk and tape formats. The top three entrants will feature a tape loader with loading bitmap and music, and the other entries will use a simple tape turbo loader. As usual, I would like to say a huge thank you to all the compo entrants who have participated in the SEUCK Compo 2025. There will be another one in September 2025 to mark the 30th anniversary of my very first ever public game release.
June 2025
8th June 2025
Zzapped in the Butt - Special Edition released
The New Dimension is very proud to bring you a re-visited arcade shoot 'em up called "Zzapped in the Butt". This time it is a special edition featuring new game graphics, and slight tweaking of the game code and an updated loading bitmap. The game got first released onto the Zzap! 64 Micro Action magazine digital cover mount (an exclusive for Zzap! 64 Micro Action patreon supporters and contributors). A mothership has approached the Earth's surface and is ready to conquer Earth. Guide your fighter jet across each of the 32 levels blasting the aliens that are beaming down from the mothership. Watch out because at times, the mothership will supercharge itself and attempt to fire a laser at your jet. Your mission, at the end of the day, is to save planet Earth and not get "Zzapped in the Butt".
The New Dimension is very proud to bring you a re-visited arcade shoot 'em up called "Zzapped in the Butt". This time it is a special edition featuring new game graphics, and slight tweaking of the game code and an updated loading bitmap. The game got first released onto the Zzap! 64 Micro Action magazine digital cover mount (an exclusive for Zzap! 64 Micro Action patreon supporters and contributors). A mothership has approached the Earth's surface and is ready to conquer Earth. Guide your fighter jet across each of the 32 levels blasting the aliens that are beaming down from the mothership. Watch out because at times, the mothership will supercharge itself and attempt to fire a laser at your jet. Your mission, at the end of the day, is to save planet Earth and not get "Zzapped in the Butt".
Zzapped in the Butt - Special Edition
1st June 2025
SEUCK Compo 2025 Results revealed
The C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 has drawn to a close, and the voting has finished. The voting phase got closed on 31st May 2025. The results have been so close and have been counted. The results for the SEUCK Compo 2025 are now revealed. So then, which game has won the competition? Well, you will need to visit the C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 page to find out. :)
The C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 has drawn to a close, and the voting has finished. The voting phase got closed on 31st May 2025. The results have been so close and have been counted. The results for the SEUCK Compo 2025 are now revealed. So then, which game has won the competition? Well, you will need to visit the C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 page to find out. :)
May 2025
31st May 2025
SEUCK Compo Voting now closed and even some more good news The SEUCK Compo 2025 voting phase has drawn to a close. Results are being collated and will be revealed next week, and the prize package will be launched some time in the summer. Unlike the last contest, there will only be one winner's enhancement prize for personal time reasons (where focusing on Scene World issue 36, and its special features.
But what about the good news? Well, I am pleased to announce that to mark the 30th anniversary of TND (although it was a different name beforehand) there will be a second C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 launched in September 2025 through until December 2025. All will be revealed when it gets launched. However, for now. Have a great weekend and I shall see you next time with the compo results.
SEUCK Compo 2025
10th May 2025
To close the competition, we have a cute cartoon game inspired by Classic Reggae, written by Rodrigo Yeowtch. You play the role of Rastaman who'se objective is to save his farm and village from invaders. His only defence is a supply of coconuts. Throw them at the baddies to scare them away.
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Rastaman
Entry submissions for the SEUCK Compo 2025 are now closed.
The submissions for the SEUCK Compo 2025 have now closed. It is now time to vote for your favourite entry. Any late entries that come in during the vioting phase can still be added to the compo page but does not qualify for the competition. First of all, make sure you download all of the compo entries individually and then afterwards make your way to the voting form and score each game individually. Then submit.You have until 31st May 2025 to submit your votes, and in early June 2025 the results will be revealled.Then the digital compo prize pack will be ready later on in the Summer.
I would like to say a huge thank you to all of the entrants who have supported this year's competition. There is a chance we might be doing it all again the same time next year.
7th May 2025
There is one thing I always loved in a SEUCK compo, and that is a really cool space blaster. Well, Alf Yngve delivers exactly that. Alf has also teamed up with Martin Piper to give us Star Skimmer, a vertical scrolling blaster for 1 player only. Star Skimmer has you playing the role of a fearless pilot from the Federation. Cole Skimmer is on a very deadly mission which is to stop the evil Nitwup empire from hatching a plot to take over Planet Earth. The only way to do this is appoach the surface of each passing asteroid and destroy the enemy bases. However, he will not be alone and the aliens are watching his every move. Also there are captured astronauts to be rescued. Star Skimmer features some neat SEUCK Redux enhancements which Martin has included, but I will let you work some of these out for yourself.
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Star Skimmer
5th May 2025
Here is the latest submission for the SEUCK Compo 2025. The deadline was extended until this coming Friday night, then on Saturday the voting phase begins. Today's entry is an espionage thriller, called Spy Kombat, written by Pinov Vox (featuring some exclusive title music for the game by me). The game was made using the Sideways Scrolling SEUCK. You play the role of Shancky, a secret agent, whose headquarters has been ransacked by an evil spy, Mr. X. Mr. X has stolen the "Shadow" organization's defence plans, and threatens to use it as an offensive weapon that could devastate the whole world. Mr. X has also set a cunning plan which is to send his henchmen to take over the HQ, while he plots an evil plan. Poor old Shancky must expose his "Shadow" organization and obliterate the evil henchmen and retrieve back the plans from Mr. X and destroy them in the office shredder. It is time for some fun arcade action and shoot down the bad guys.
SEUCK Compo 2025 - Spy Kombat
4th May 2025
SEUCK School Update - Player death spawn (Action Replay version) There has been a case where specific games made using SEUCK feature a problem, push scrolling games in particular, where the player gets stuck on an unpassable/death background character. This makes it more impossible to allow the player to progress through SEUCK games, even further. Luckily however, TND is here with an updated tip on how to spawn the player on to the last position the player has died. Oklay, so I did this before via an assembly rouytine. Now this time I have made an Action Replay M/C monitor tips version of this trick. If you have an Actiuon Replay/Retro Replay cartridge available, why not give this trick a try.
Player death spawn trick
1st May 2025
If you were/are working on a new SEUCK game specially for this year's competition - or perhaps you have an old SEUCK game you have written but never released it before. Then please read this good news. Although the deadline for compo submissions have expired, the Compo is still allowing submissions to submitted to TND's webmaster until 9th May 2025 11:59 GMT +0 (UK+Ireland time). The vote sheet will be live and ready for you to cast your votes some time on 10th May 2025. If any submissions are submitted after the voting form has been published, then the compo entry will not be accepted but the entrant will of course be advised how they could release their game.
The C64 SEUCK Compo 2025
April 2025
We have yet another entry for the C64 SEUCK Compo 2025, which is called Barratolini, or translated to English, Tiny Jars, one of Recycled Music's final entries for this year's competition. This is a funny game for one or two players in which you play one of the two experiments (A tiny human, or a slimy green worm) who both run around the shape-changing maze collecting as many hearts as they can before they lose all of their lives. The best way to play this game is in two player mode, and the winner is the player who gets the highest score out of both players.
Barratolini
27th April 2025
We have yet another entry for the C64 SEUCK Compo 2025, which is called Barratolini, or translated to English, Tiny Jars, one of Recycled Music's final entries for this year's competition. This is a funny game for one or two players in which you play one of the two experiments (A tiny human, or a slimy green worm) who both run around the shape-changing maze collecting as many hearts as they can before they lose all of their lives. The best way to play this game is in two player mode, and the winner is the player who gets the highest score out of both players.
Barratolini
ATTENTION - SEUCK Compo 2025 Submission deadline News!
This is a very important announcement that the deadline for this year's SEUCK Compo is coming very close. The deadline for compo submissions should be no later than 30th April 2025, of course while the voting form is still being processed for the competition, there is possibilty that late entries might be accepted until of course the voting form is ready, otherwise the games will be placed in the outside compo category or the TND contributor's page.I would like to say a huge thank you to everybody who has contributed to this year's competition. It has been great fun checking out the entries and making new music for some of the games.
24th April 2025
The latest version of Tape Master Pro has been released. This is an improved updated version of Tape Master Pro V5. Which is now currently V5.1. There are a couple of additional options added to the tape mastering tool. One of which adds two more border schemes during loading from tape. The other of which allows disable scroll text and loading text and switch the screen off before the picture loads. Also the layout for the optional flashing sprite position editor has been updated slightly. :)
Tape Master Pro V5.1
18th April 2025
How would you like to go out into the great outdoors and go hunting for those Easter Bunnies? Well, this game sort of fits this. As we are currently very close to eating scrumptious chocolate Easter Eggs. Rodrigo Yeowtch delivers his second submission, Gnom. Where you are a garden gnome, on a quest to save your gardens from evil demons. Armed with a blue boomerang (which obviously does not come back). You set off through your the garden into a deadly underworld, where demons roam. Pick up mushrooms, and hunt for the bunnies - although, to be honest, you will not get any chocolate eggs from them. :)
Gnom
13th April 2025
The next entry for the SEUCK Compo 2025 comes from Rodrigo Yeowtch, a newcomer to the SEUCK compo. He has submitted his very first compo entry which is called Poltergeist Hellschool. This is a fun vertical push scrolling arcade adventure, based in a spooky school. You play a hapless schoolboy, Toshiba, who is on a quest to save Sharp High School from being destroyed by the evil power of the poltergeists. Armed with a text book, you attempt to throw the book at the ghosts, and school bullies. You also need to rescue the classmates from the evil which lurks inside the school.
Poltergeist Hellschool
SEUCK Compo Entry #9 - Captain Ishtar Begins by Alf Yngve
We have a second entry from Alf Yngve, which is a prequel to the very first episode of Captain Ishtar. This game also features full in game enhancements mastered by Magovinna using Martin Piper's SEUCK Redux engine. Captain Ishtar Begins is based on the planet Mars, where she dives into a mech suit and attempts to save her people, The Federation, against an evil empire of green tentacled aliens known as the Nitwup Empire. She must travel across enemy owned territory and destroy everything in sight and collect power pods for extra lives. This game is big, even the sprites are big - and so is the battle. It is time to go and kick those green tentacled alien backsides out of Mars. Hell yeah!!!
Captain Ishtar Begins
5th April 2025
SEUCK Compo Entry #6 - Presepi nella Nebbia (Nativity scenes in the fog) by Recycled Music
Just as you thought that Christmas is finally over and are looking ahead to Easter, a Christmas themed Sideways SEUCK compo entry comes its way. According to the author, Recycled Music, Presepi nella Nebbia (Nativity scenes in the fog) was created to be presented at a traditional exposition of nativity scenes models in my little village, that lies on the banks of the Po river (italy). Unfortunally the exposition this year never took place so the author decided to 'recycle' this project for the SEUCK compo. In this game, help Father Christmas deliver gifts to the villagers and the anaimals, but avoid getting run over by those pesky drivers who are out to ruin your day.
Presepi nella Nebbia
SEUCK Compo Entry #7 - Thunder Bird by Eleanor Burns
Yeehaw. It is time to take a trip down to the Wild West with a Western themed action six shooter platformer by Eleanor Burns with some nice western themed music by Richard/TND. The game was created using Martin Piper's adaptation of the Sideways Scrolling SEUCK. You play the role of an outlaw named Zintkala from the Lakota Tribe, who is on a quest for vengeance to find and defeat an evil Demon Serpent that killed her tribe leader. Before she can get there for the ultimate showdown, she must go on a long journey by foot and then by train where she will encounter broken ledges, deadly snakes, buffalo, voodoo skulls and nasty miners who made her life a real misery. Luckily she is armed with a Colt with plenty of bullets and is ready to take on the goddarn varmits. Yeehaw!.
Thunder Bird
Just as you thought that Christmas is finally over and are looking ahead to Easter, a Christmas themed Sideways SEUCK compo entry comes its way. According to the author, Recycled Music, Presepi nella Nebbia (Nativity scenes in the fog) was created to be presented at a traditional exposition of nativity scenes models in my little village, that lies on the banks of the Po river (italy). Unfortunally the exposition this year never took place so the author decided to 'recycle' this project for the SEUCK compo. In this game, help Father Christmas deliver gifts to the villagers and the anaimals, but avoid getting run over by those pesky drivers who are out to ruin your day.
Presepi nella Nebbia
SEUCK Compo Entry #7 - Thunder Bird by Eleanor Burns
Yeehaw. It is time to take a trip down to the Wild West with a Western themed action six shooter platformer by Eleanor Burns with some nice western themed music by Richard/TND. The game was created using Martin Piper's adaptation of the Sideways Scrolling SEUCK. You play the role of an outlaw named Zintkala from the Lakota Tribe, who is on a quest for vengeance to find and defeat an evil Demon Serpent that killed her tribe leader. Before she can get there for the ultimate showdown, she must go on a long journey by foot and then by train where she will encounter broken ledges, deadly snakes, buffalo, voodoo skulls and nasty miners who made her life a real misery. Luckily she is armed with a Colt with plenty of bullets and is ready to take on the goddarn varmits. Yeehaw!.
Thunder Bird
March 2025
23rd March 2025
SEUCK School Update - Three NEW tips
SEUCK School has yet again been updated with three new SEUCK enhancing tips. First we have Fixing the Sideways SEUCK background flicker bug using $D011 tricks . This an exclusive look at how the Sideways SEUCK bug flicker takes place and how it can be fixed with a few Action Replay pokes or machine code patches. Stephan Lesch / Out of Order Softworks gives out the full lowdown on how it is done, and I deliver the POKES that will fix the bug. Also, there are a couple of enhancement tricks based on levels using an assembler. The first involves switching the colour of the background, according to the level which the player is based at. The second example involves the art of switching between sub tunes if using in game music according to the level which the player is based on.This tip will be useful for those who want to make a game that contains normal in game music and then switch to end of level boss music, and so on. So that is three tips in one update.Should any more tips come along, I'll add them from time to time. For now, enjoy.
SEUCK Compo Entry #4 - Lucifis by Raul Gubert
A fourth entry has been submitted to the C64 SEUCK Compo 2025. This time it is a vertical push scrolling drive and smash 'em up screen play called "Lucifis". The game is based in the dark world full of high crimewaves. You patrol a police car, who's mission is to get rid of the offensive criminal assassins and try to drive carefully through the streets. The problem, is that you should also avoid the pedestrians who are on the road, but you cannot see them in the dark.
LUCIFIS
SEUCK Compo Entry #5 - Mega Vortex 2 by Vox VideoGame
The next entry for the C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 is a fast-paced vertical scrolling shoot 'em up by Vox VideoGame called Mega Vortex 2. This nice looking game stars you as Pinov Vox, a fearless space pilot of Mega Vortex 2, who sets off on a mission to seek out and destroy the evil Megaloryan emperor, only to find that his minions are tracking Mega Vortex and are ready to destroy it with the pilot inside it. This game also features a nice loading bitmap which Pinov has linked onto this game.
MEGA VORTEX
16th March 2025
SEUCK School Update - New title screen featureSEUCK School Update - Three NEW tips
SEUCK School has yet again been updated with three new SEUCK enhancing tips. First we have Fixing the Sideways SEUCK background flicker bug using $D011 tricks . This an exclusive look at how the Sideways SEUCK bug flicker takes place and how it can be fixed with a few Action Replay pokes or machine code patches. Stephan Lesch / Out of Order Softworks gives out the full lowdown on how it is done, and I deliver the POKES that will fix the bug. Also, there are a couple of enhancement tricks based on levels using an assembler. The first involves switching the colour of the background, according to the level which the player is based at. The second example involves the art of switching between sub tunes if using in game music according to the level which the player is based on.This tip will be useful for those who want to make a game that contains normal in game music and then switch to end of level boss music, and so on. So that is three tips in one update.Should any more tips come along, I'll add them from time to time. For now, enjoy.
SEUCK Compo Entry #4 - Lucifis by Raul Gubert
A fourth entry has been submitted to the C64 SEUCK Compo 2025. This time it is a vertical push scrolling drive and smash 'em up screen play called "Lucifis". The game is based in the dark world full of high crimewaves. You patrol a police car, who's mission is to get rid of the offensive criminal assassins and try to drive carefully through the streets. The problem, is that you should also avoid the pedestrians who are on the road, but you cannot see them in the dark.
LUCIFIS
SEUCK Compo Entry #5 - Mega Vortex 2 by Vox VideoGame
The next entry for the C64 SEUCK Compo 2025 is a fast-paced vertical scrolling shoot 'em up by Vox VideoGame called Mega Vortex 2. This nice looking game stars you as Pinov Vox, a fearless space pilot of Mega Vortex 2, who sets off on a mission to seek out and destroy the evil Megaloryan emperor, only to find that his minions are tracking Mega Vortex and are ready to destroy it with the pilot inside it. This game also features a nice loading bitmap which Pinov has linked onto this game.
MEGA VORTEX
16th March 2025
A new SEUCK School update has been added to the TND web site. This time it is based on preparing and making a new front end with aid of the SEUCK Background editor, an Action Replay, and a whole lot of coding fun. That's right. It is time to transfer the old front ends provided by SEUCK into something much cooler with a snazzy logo, colourful credits page, with scrolltext and some music. Then we place it onto a SEUCK game, like I have done with Alf Yngve's excellent classic, SuperStrike (and I even made a new tune for it). :)
SEUCK School - New title Screen feature
The next installment (in April or May) will feature making a new front end using a colourful bitmap logo and custom charsets.
Due to time limitations (preparing the latest SEUCK School update), the SEUCK Compo 2025 entries recently submitted today will be launched next weekend.
8th March 2025
SEUCK Compo Entry #3 - Bang City by Pinov Vox8th March 2025
SEUCK Compo Entry #3 - Bang City by Pinov Vox
The SEUCK Compo 2025 continues with yet another entry for the competition. This time it is a vertical push scroller by Pinov Vox called "Bang City". In this game you play the role of a bounty hunter. Armed with a rifle, you set off into Bang City on a mission to clear the dangerous streets from those armed bad guys. Good luck!
Bang City
February 2025
23rd February 2025
SEUCK Compo Entry #2 - 4,000 Kung Fu Maniacs - The Twerk of Destiny by Alf Yngve
4,000 Kung Fu Maniacs
15th February 2025
New C64 Game: Canyon Tank Duel Released
Canyon Tank Duel
4th February 2025
Scene World Issue 35 released
The
latest issue of Scene World has been launched on the TND web site. This
issue was originally intended for a January 2025 release, but was
delayed. But finally issue 35 is here. It features the regular
features, including Fun With CBMPRGStudio (Which is based on intro
coding). There is also a feature based on Gamescom Latam, and some
interviews with not one, but two C64 legends featured in the Scene
World Podcasts. There's enough to digest through while you wait for
issue 36 of Scene World, which aims to be launched some time in the
Summer of 2025.
SCENE WORLD #35
SCENE WORLD #35
1st February 2025
SEUCK School Update
There
is a small SEUCK School Update today, which mainly focus on detecting
enemy objects. It has been said that the previous version was sounded
quite complicated, I have done my best to make things easy where
possible if using an assembler. The quick update consists of two
example ideas. The first is based on picking six enemy objects to form
a boss, and the other tip is slightly easier and detect an enemy based
on score. Also Eneanor Burns has provided a couple more SEUCK related
tips based on hires sprites and also sound effects.
SEUCK SCHOOL
Expect more tips later on this month :)
SEUCK SCHOOL
Expect more tips later on this month :)
1st January 2025
Happy New Year
Happy New Year
