FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!
The 8-Bit Beat-’em-up/Fighter Dev Competition 2020 is, as the slightly unwieldy name might suggest, a programming contest where the participants must create either a scrolling or one-on-one fighter. That title does allow for quite a bit of variety in the design, since entries can be anything from International Karate-style, single-screen battles to brawlers like Streets Of Rage, and the organisers have also clarified that something akin to Smash Bros (where the players can throw projectiles at each other to cause damage) would also qualify as a valid entry.
The people behind this competition are from the newly minted publisher Bitmap Soft in association with Puddle Software and, while there isn’t much to see at the time of writing, the author of the beta release Super JumpKick Turbo 64 on the Commodore 64 from 2016 has said that he’s currently rewriting it and hopes to have a version ready before the event’s deadline in early July. Fans of dishing out justice with their hands and feet should kick the pipe-wielding opponents behind Kikstart.me.uk/fighter-dev-2020 for more information.
The BASIC 10 Liners Contest is now a decade old, and it’s still going strong with a range of categories for entries. Previous years have seen some truly impressive programs for a range of different systems – there were over a there’s also an archive of contributions from the previous five instalments.
