AMCOG Development Kit v1.02 Released

AMCOG Games is pleased to announce that the AMCOG Development Kit is now available for download from from the PlingStore

(http://www.plingstore.org.uk)

Please see http://www.amcog-games.co.uk/kit.htm for further information

The AMCOG Development kit makes game writing on RISC OS much simpler.

It also comes with 2 full games :
Mutant Penguin
and
Cyborg.

The kit includes:
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• A core library to enable sprite plotting, error handling, screen transitions, MP3 playback and much more.
• A tile library to provide a general game engine for games based on tiles.
• A sound library and virtual sound chip
• Game sprites
• Music tracks
• Sound samples
• The free graphics, music tracks and sound samples are included a well as two games developed using the kit:

=> Mutant Penguin is available separately for free in a ‘crunched form’. However, the AMCOG Development Kit includes the source code as a working example of the core, tile and sound libraries.
http://www.amcog-games.co.uk/penguin.htm

=> Cyborg is available separately as a paid for title and is more complex example in that includes multiple screens per level and more game logic. The core code for this game was written in less than 2 days as a way of proving the kit library functions.
http://www.amcog-games.co.uk/cyborg.htm

Compatibility
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The AMCOG Development Kit is compatible with RISC OS 4 on Virtual Acorn and RISC OS 5 on Raspberry Pi 1,2 & 3 Beagleboard and Pandaboard based systems, ARM X6 and RPCEmu.