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About this page

This page contains a showcase of some of the best homebrew games made by the Oric users community, ranging from arcade shooters to adventure games, from top-down to isometric, and from 100% original concepts to Oric ports of famous games.

I participated in one form or another to all the games on this page:

The small ones (Freecell, Kong, Tron ,...) were mostly my entries to game jams or other similar small competitions
The big ones (Space: 1999, Blake's 7, 1337, ...) are the result of the cooperation with various people (check the credits on each page).

But since I ran out of Defence-Force games, you will also find a number of titles (Athanor 2, ...) made by other people which deserve much more visibility!

About me

I'm a professional game developer who also like to make small games on the side as a hobby, mostly on retro platforms such as the Oric (1983) or Atari (1985) computers.

There's also a blog where I write about various things, and I maintain the OSDK (Oric Software Development Kit) used to develop most of these games.

Wolfenstein 3D (Oric)

Could Wolf3D be done on the Oric? This prototype tries to answer that question!

Shooter

Speed Ball (Oric)

Collect the keys, avoid the bats, and open the doors to exit the 40 levels of the game!

Puzzle

O-Thrust (Oric)

Fight the gravity and master your thrust and get the klystron sphere into orbit

Simulation

Bocco's Adventures (Oric)

Help Bocco explore

Adventure

Les Chemins de Galdeon (Oric)

A texture mapped maze escape game on the 1mhz Oric computer?

Puzzle

Zip'n Zap (Oric)

An arcade/puzzle game for one or two players where you clear screens my removing tiles.

Puzzle

Pulsoids (Oric)

Imagine Arkanoid or Breakout, but with laser beams instead of balls!

Action

Wizard's Lair (Oric)

A cute looking - and though - Rogue like game for your Oric!

Adventure

Athanor 2 (Oric)

The said it could not do on the Oric, but here it is after all!

Adventure

SkoolDaze (Oric)

Help a schoolboy to steal his report card out of the staff room safe by accomplishing various tasks around the school

Action

Hnefatafl (Oric)

Hnefatafl is an ancient Vikings board game that preceded Chess in Northern Europe.

Strategy

Stormlord (Oric)

As the Stormlord your mission is to free the Faeries, you have limited time, and many foes to deal with!

Platformer

Oricium ("Uridium" for the Oric)

A fast, lateral scrolling shoot-em-up with a touch of puzzle game. Starts easily but quickly becomes challenging!

Action

Impossible Mission (Oric)

The classic 80ies Impossible Mission game is now available for the Oric!

Platformer

1337 (Elite for the Oric)

The ultimate real time 3D space simulation for your Oric computer system

Simulation

Blake's 7 (Oric)

Blake's 7 is a Point & Click adventure game for your Oric with specifications as you've never seen before.

Space: 1999 (Oric)

Only you can save the Moon Base Alpha

Adventure

Cyclotron (Oric)

A 4KB version of the classic Light Cycles races for the Oric computer

Racing

3k FreeCell (Oric)

A 3KB version of FreeCell for the Oric computers

Card Game

A 4kb version of the famous 1982 dual screen LCD game

Platformer

Dungeon Master (Oric)

Is the Oric powerful enough to run the best 80ies Dungeon crawler game?

Role Playing

Encounter HD (Oric)

A young girl has been kidnapped, you have two hours to find and free her.

Visual Novel

Quantum FX Turbo Ultra (Oric)

What if you could play WipeOut on your 1983 Oric computer?

Racing

OSDK (Oric Software Development Kit)

Windows toolchain to develop Oric computer software.

My Typical Day In Oslo (Oric)

Some of us follow daily rituals, will you figure out mine?

Adventure

Weekend In Oslo (Oric)

You have 48 hours to spend in Oslo and a limited budget, what will you do now?

Strategy

Sim Caissière (Sim Cashier)

You too can now experience the exiting life of a cashier scanning bar codes.

Simulation