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Evercade Showcase Vol 2
LETCHWORTH, UK, July 31, in the year of our Lord 2023:
Blaze Entertainment has today announced multiple new cartridge
collections for Evercade, completing the Evercade 2023 cartridge
line-up. During the Evercade Showcase Vol.2 pre-recorded
broadcast, four new collections were announced, bringing 12 more
games to Evercade. This show focused on indie games and modern
retro indie titles - highlighting the great work of indie
developers, homebrew developers, and new independent studios
across retro consoles, retro home computers and new native
games.
Evercade Showcase Vol. 2 was not only a way for Evercade to show
and announce upcoming collections, but to also highlight the
importance of indie games and indie development, and how the
Evercade audience is a great home for many titles that may often
be overlooked or lost on modern consoles vast digital
storefronts.
With Evercade, these developers not only get their game in front
of a crowd of excited fans wanting to play new games but also a
physical release of their game as part of a collection. We’re
incredibly proud of the vehicle that Evercade has become for
modern retro indie games and were happy to get the involvement
of multiple developers to show their own games in this
broadcast.
Starting with today’s biggest announcement - Evercade’s first
ever single game cartridge. Introducing Full Void from
OutOfTheBit - a wonderful cinematic 2D platformer with nods to
great retro games like Another World. This game is native to
Evercade, meaning it is not emulated, and marks the first
physical release for this game, released last week on Steam.
During the showcase, the team at OutOfTheBit showcased some of
the features and development processes behind the games. The
game also comes with a full colour manual and an included
Prologue comic to further the plot of the game.
This cartridge will be available at the standard Evercade SRP of
£17.99|$19.99|€19.99, and will be released in October 2023.
Pre-orders open August 1st 2023.
In addition to this being the first Evercade collection with a
single game, we also decided to do something special by creating
the Evercade Full Void Special Edition.
Available at select retailers, this version of the cartridge
comes with an exclusive blue cartridge and Special Edition cart
inlay, stickers, a double-sided poster, and an exclusive artbook
of the beautiful hand-drawn environments and animations created
for the game.
This comes in a Special Edition cardboard Sleeve and will retail
at £24.99|$29.99|€29.99 and will be released in October 2023.
Pre-orders for this version of the cartridge also open August
1st 2023.
Home Computer Heroes is a new collection that is an offshoot of
our popular “Indie Heroes” cartridge line. This collection is
fully focused on modern retro indie games that have been made
specifically for home computers including the C64, Amiga and
MSX2.
The 7 games on this collection come from a mixture of YouTube
personalities, passionate programmers, game jam projects and
even a AAA gaming side project. Alongside the successful The
Attack of the PETSCII Robots and Planet X2 by David Murray (The
8-bit Guy), we have the C64 version of Giants Software’s
incredibly successful Farming Simulator, 3D Amiga gaming with
Citadel Remonstered, more great Amiga games in Bridge Strike and
Tanks Furry, and the MSX2 based adventure The Sword of Ianna!
This cartridge will be available for £17.99|$19.99|€19.99, and
will be released in October 2023. Pre-orders open August 1st
2023.
The Evercade “Dual Cart” range has seen games from more
established indie developers come to Evercade. Previous entries
include Xenocrisis by Bitmap Buearu, Tanglewood by Big Evil
Corp, Alwa’s Awakening 8-bit Edition from Elden Pixels and
Cathedral by Decemberborn.
For 2023, Evercade is releasing 2 collections, each with 2 great
games that are great examples of what can be done with powerful
original 8, 16 and 32-bit hardware.
Goodboy Galaxy and Witch n’ Wiz make up the first dual cartridge
collection. Goodboy Galaxy is a 32-bit handheld game featuring a
literal good boy with protagonist Maxwell on a mission to save
his home, and the 8-bit puzzler Witch n’ Wiz where you try to
save your best friend from an evil sorceress. With hours of
enjoyment across both games, this is sure to be one that the
whole family will enjoy.
Demons of Asteborg and Astebros both come from Neofid studios
and are games made specifically for 16-bit home consoles. These
two new great games bring great metroidvania and dungeon
crawlers back to Evercade with multiple hours of enjoyment,
great graphics and effects! Demons of Asteborg brings boss
battles and more in a huge fantasy world. Whilst Astebros brings
single and multiplayer dungeon crawling in a procedurally
generated world, meaning no adventure is ever the same!
Both cartridges will be available for £17.99|$19.99|€19.99 each,
and will be released in December 2023. Pre-orders open in
September 2023.
Evercade also announced that the popular Game of the Month
feature, which brings a brand new indie game every month to
Evercade VS and EXP consoles via a firmware update, will return
in 2024. All of 2023’s games will be released in a physical
collection in early 2024 and this will continue next year.
Full Games List
32 - Full Void
Full Void
(Full Void Special Edition Also Available)
C05 - Home Computer Heroes Collection 1
The Attack of the PETSCII Robots
Bridge Strike
Citadel Remonstered
Farming Simulator C64 Edtion
Planet X2
The Sword of Ianna
Tanks Furry
35 - Goodboy Galaxy/Witch n' Wiz
Goodboy Galaxy
Witch n' Wiz
36 - Demons of Asteborg/Astebros
Demons of Asteborg
Astebros
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