10 NEW GAMES COMING FOR THE DREAMCAST

Wow, it sure has been a week of love for the Dreamcast, can you feel it? Joystiq is reporting that GOAT Store Publishing is planning on releasing 10 new games for Sega’s little white box of joy. Now before you get your hopes up, from what I can see of their past efforts, they’re going to be those usual average quality homebrew games you find for most “dead” consoles. Still, a new game is a new game.

My advice? If you want a “new” game for your Dreamcast now and have a little bit of technical know-how, I’d STRONGLY suggest you head over the homepage of the Senile Team and download/burn the files for their freeware game Beats of Rage. Think of it as a spiritual successor to the classic Streets of Rage series – it’s not the most polished game you’ll ever find, but it still damn good.

Click here to see the Joystiq article, here for GOAT Store Publishing and here for the Senile Team’s Beats of Rage official site.

INDIANA JONES AND THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH DEMO

No, it’s not the action game coming from LucasArts. The good folks of Screen7 are building a prequel to LucasArts graphic adventure game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis using Adventure Game Studio. Screen7 describes the demo for Fountain of Youth as follows;

“Join our hero in this 10 room playable demo, featuring beautiful & original artwork in an exotic new location! Using a new separate storyline to the full game but including some relevant facts, you discover the paths to the mysterious Fountain! Don’t forget – this is just a sample of what is to come. Look out for future demo updates!

EXPLORE the island of Bimini, MEET and INTERACT with friends and foes! Find out who’s there and exactly what they are up to!

The DEMO also includes original MIDI music, animated characters and a demonstration of the fighting engine. The full game will boast many further features. There are several puzzles to solve in the DEMO, but none of these will feature in the full game.” -Indiana Jones & the Fountain of Youth Website

Huge kudos to another company looking to keep the graphic adventure genre alive, though I’m a bit surprised LucasArts hasn’t come down on them with a 10 ton hammer yet. Click here to head over to the Indiana Jones & the Fountain of Youth website, here to check out Adventure Game Studio (Freeware) and take a look at some of the other games people have made using it. For those wondering, this was also the tool used by the now defunct LucasFan Games to create Maniac Mansion Deluxe.

RONDO OF BLOOD PC PORT PROJECT

The folks over at PCEngineFX.com have unveiled a working build of the classic PCEngine SuperCD game Demon Castle Dracula X: Rondo of Blood. Not to be confused with the lackluster SNES Castlevania: Dracula X, this version aims to recreate all the things that made the original, unreleased in the U.S. game, special. This is the first full public build of the homebrew, so keep in mind there are still a lot of bugs to be worked out. Click here to head on over to PCEngineFX’s Dracula X PC Port page.