Moonstone Tavern has revealed the Moonstone AGA Project, an effort to remaster the brutal fantasy slasher Moonstone for Amiga's Advanced Graphics Architecture. The project is being developed by a team of community veterans with ties to both the game's fanbase and the wider industry, and involves AI-assisted techniques to enhance the classic title. via indieretronews.com
TjLaZer has released a fan-made Amiga AGA port of Konami's 1986 arcade shooter Lifeforce, version 1.0. It requires an AGA Amiga such as the A1200 or A4000 with a 68020 or better processor, 2MB chip RAM and fast RAM, with an accelerator recommended, and is offered as a free, name-your-own-price download with disk, hard drive and WHDLoad options. via itch.io
Further details have emerged about Astra Last Light, the free OCS Amiga shoot'em'up, including its origins as an ACE engine sprite demo, its four-sector campaign with unique bosses, a tap-or-hold firing system, and persistent upgrades earned by clearing enemy waves. via amiga-news.de
FireRed ω is a fan-made ROM hack based on Drayano's FireRed Omega, following the littlelocke style where evolutions are removed and only unevolved or weak single-stage Pokémon can be caught. It also introduces the Fairy type as a special attacker, several new moves such as Play Rough and Draining Kiss, and new Pokémon additions. via pokecommunity.com
Tricky Tetris is a Commodore Plus/4 puzzle game that reworks the classic block-stacking formula with tricks such as shaking screens, reversed controls and risky bonus scoring opportunities. via console-classics.com
Pokémon Vestiges WAH is a community-made ROM hack created to mark more than 20 years of Whack a Hack, a long-running Spanish-speaking Pokémon ROM hacking community. The hack was built collaboratively by many contributors to celebrate the community's history and its past projects, and has now been released as a complete game at version 1.2.0. via pokecommunity.com
Developer greggster990 is developing Ravensmoor, a free fantasy action RPG for the Commodore 64 inspired by Diablo. The game is in development, played with keyboard and mouse, and was made with AI-assisted code, graphics, sound and text. via itch.io
Developer m0nde has released PETSCII Panic!, a free tower defense style strategy game for the Commodore 64 built in C64 BASIC. The game uses PETSCII graphics and casts players as defenders of a lawn. via itch.io
Pokémon Mercury, a Chinese-language ROM hack of FireRed set in the Johto region, now has a beta English translation patch at version 1.3.3, making it playable for non-Chinese-speaking fans. via reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks
Developer Amigos Retro Gaming has released a name-your-own-price Amiga conversion of the arcade game Do! Run Run. The native port targets a stock Amiga A1200 with AGA, requiring 2MB Chip RAM and 8MB Fast RAM, and has players dodging monsters while enclosing areas with a trail. via itch.io
The Platinum Together - Pokémon Platinum Mod channel has posted a new showcase trailer titled "Play Pokémon Platinum With Your Friends", promoting the multiplayer mod for Pokémon Platinum. via YouTube
Pokemon Quetzal, a fan-made Pokemon game, has been updated to version 0.9.1. The update adds Kanto and Johto to the existing Hoenn region, introduces new options for how players start a region including level scaling and item/money carryover choices, and allows players to run multiple regional adventures and switch between them without finishing one first. via reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks
