This is open for pre orders, the top 10 will recieve their free copy any one else please support where you can, the pre order scheme will role until there is enough orders.
Each USB tape is £15 with a min of £5 going to the charity.
https://www.phoenixware.co.uk/product/cassette-50-collectors-usb-tape/
AND THE WINNER IS
The awesome TinyBubbles, this is a worthy winner of the overall comp.
PIXS, please let us know which book you would like from Greyfox Books?
A huge thank you from us all for entering, we've had a blast playing each and every one of these games.
I would like to personally thank, Shallan and Arlasoft for helping us run this competition and to judge the games.
Below you will see the top 10 games, you will each get a free copy of the cassette once we have made it, I will get in touch with you all nearer the time.
| 1st | TinyBubbles |
| 2nd | Big Time Bugger |
| 3rd | Panic In The Bank |
| 4th | Rogue4k |
| 5th | Psion Attack 2021 |
| 6th | Lockdown |
| 7th | Petscii Cave |
| 8th | Lil' Red Hatchback |
| 9th | breakdance |
| 10th | Don't Block The Box |
The rest of the games below will also be going on the cassette 50 tape, it will be called Cassette 50+, more on this later.
| PETSCIIPede |
| Frog! Aargh |
| Bloop |
| Balloon Caves |
| PETSCII Pete |
| Bullshit |
| Ski |
| Pancakes |
| STAR TREK: Last Hope |
| Arcade Baseball! |
| Circles |
| Lamentable Soccer |
| Ms Lily's Haunted Shop |
| Froop |
| Textris |
| Para Lander Mini |
| Whack-a-mole |
| A MAZING QUAD RACE |
| Tents and Trees |
| Rocket Away |
| Over Take C64 |
| Gardening vs. Global Warming |
| Katics 4k |
| Red Is Blue |
| Loopy |
| Package Delivery |
| GET OUT! |
| Centered |
| Line 'Em Up |
| Txt Advntre |
| Eggs |
| Mastermind |
| Copy Cat |
| Boom |
| Boxnightmare |
| Defuse |
| SCIIAMBLE |
| Asterocrash |
| GDM HangMan |
| My Balls Are Dropping |
| Lil Adventure |
| Battleships |
| World Cup Horseracing |
| Kiteee |
| π |
Again thank you for all taking part, please take a look at our Speccy Jam here if that is of interest to you https://itch.io/jam/zx-spectrum-game-jam-2021
Regards
Jamie
All games apart from Castle Attack passed the checks.. So sadly this game will not be scored, However we have decided that it will make the final tape but not be counted within the comp.
We are currently scoring the games and hope to have the results by the 24th April for you.
Thanks again for entering.
We wanted to do a quick post to inform you all of the next step.
Simon is currently validating all entries, once this has been done we will start to judge the games based on the scoring system noted below, this was taken from the original comp page.
The scoring rules are very simple. Depending on the number of entries, the judges will award points to each game over several criteria (as discussed below). If there are 6 entries, 6 points go to the best, then 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 to the worst (the ultimate cassette 50 tribute).
If a panel member has entered a game themselves, then the number of points that they can award will be adjusted (in this example, to 5) and they will not score their own release.
Execution How well you executed the game within the defined rules.
Fun Factor How awesome it is to play!
Wow Factor Is the art/sound incredible, or is the game deep beyond belief?
Originality Top marks will be awarded for original ideas and mechanics.
Replayability Does the game have replay value?
Once the panel has scored each game accordingly, the totals for each criteria will be divided by the number of judges to produce a mean average. These averages are then added together for each game to give a final score.
One thing we have decided is that every game will make the tape and that's assuming all the games hit the rules and criteria if this is more than 50 the game will simply be called Cassette 50+.
Please bare with us at the moment, we will post another update next weekend.
Regards
Jamie
