You know, those colourful books that contained a complete game listing and explained every line of it, until you could write your own?

I've wanted to make a modern one for years. So I started writing...

Create Your Own C64 Adventure Games

Write fantasy, roleplaying, and adventure games in Commodore BASIC, and beyond

It's currently 17,898 words across 14 chapters and I will be sharing sections as I complete them with Patreon members. This will give me motivation to keep going and will give you the opportunity to give feedback and requests. As a first test the Preface is up already.

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Patreon won't be the only way to get it, members just get the first look and the opportunity to steer the direction.

-- Chris

Here are the latest articles from the blog

​AndyH/Hewco Retro Game Developer Interview​

Interview with AndyH, the developer behind Cheesy Trials and Pumpkid for the Commodore Vic 20

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​Cross-Platform Amiga and Atari ST C Programming (“Not Conio But Compatible”)​

Building a conio-like layer so the same game code works on both the Amiga and the Atari ST.

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​Programming the Amiga and Atari ST in C: Reading Keyboard Input​

In this fourth and final building-block post on the way to the multi-platform roguelike in C, we add keyboard input so our player character can move

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​C64 BASIC Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack! (C64 BASIC Part 8)​

Redefinable keys, goblins that chase you, d20 combat, and the memory bug that had the game silently overwriting itself.

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​Code ZX Spectrum Next in a Web Browser (ZXGo Emulator in JS)​

The ZX Spectrum Next is now in my online IDE, including both Next BASIC and Boriel compiled BASIC, and of course Z80 ASM and C

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​Emulate Z80 CP/M 2.2 in Your Browser AND Compile C Code!​

Finally a full web-based Z80 CP/M 2.2 emulator and online development environment!

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​Commodore 64 BASIC Dungeon Crawler (C64 BASIC Part 7)​

A procedurally generated dungeon game with, collisions and a teleport escape hatch, all in plain C64 BASIC code that you can actually read and follow.

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​If I designed a Commodore Phone​

what I would do if I was speccing a Commodore phone today in 2026, and why

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​ASCII Dungeon Tiles on Amiga and Atari ST (C Programming)​

In this part of the series we look at how Atari St and Amiga handles ASCII text and we create a hard-coded dungeon in C.

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​Retro C Versus BASIC: Squeezing Games into 8-bit Machines​

It's weird but sometimes BASIC beats C, in ways you might not expect!

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​C64IDE: Powerful, Free Mac Commodore 64 IDE Review​

C64IDE is a superb Commodore 64 IDE by Thomas Knox, and the surprising part is that it is Mac-only.

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​Trimui Smart Pro S Review: Amazing $100 Retro Widescreen Handheld​

Trimui Smart Pro S TG5050 is the successor to the highly rated TG5040 handheld retro games console. Let's see how it compares to the R36S.

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​Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy’s One-Liner Can Still Teach Us​

What can we learn from 8bitguy's version of the famous C64 BASIC random maze ...?

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