Caren is part of a skeleton crew, looking after the local science center during the vacation. She could have never anticipated how one gruesome discovery would turn a quiet workplace and her whole life upside down.
Help her discover the truth in this heavily praised point-and-click adventure game that harkens back to the golden era of the genre.
Plunge into a captivating plot, solve diverse, satisfying puzzles and enjoy the Commodore 64’s audio-visual capabilities pushed to their very limits.
Credits:
- Programming and scripting: Dr. Martin Wendt
- Graphics and animation: Oliver Lindau
- Music and sound effects: Kamil Wolnikowski
- Tennis mini game: Andreas Varga
- Special thanks to Robert Megone for helping us with translations, proof-reading and testing. Please check out his website robertmegone.com.
Specs summary:
- Fully handwritten 6502 Assembler multitasking adventure engine,
50Hz, 32 Threads - Own scripting language which is compiled directly into 6502-Assembler
- Pathfinding, pixel-exact masking of main character
- Handpixeled graphics in Multicolor-Charset Mode
- 4 colors per 4×8 square, three global out of 16, one unique out of 8
- or: two colors in 8×8, one global, one out of 8
- maximum of 256 such squares
- 3 channel music, no compromises
- alternatively: SFXs can use all three voices of the SID
- some SFX are strictly based on this research
- Fully developed on ARM architectures (and 6510 of course).
final build on Aarch64 (dragonboard410c) *g*
Downloads:
- Caren and the Tangled Tentacles – disk version (v1.1)
- Caren and the Tangled Tentacles – Easyflash version (v1.2)
- Caren and the Tangled Tentacles – Thank You Edition 2018
Social Media / Forum:
- Lemon 64 (Caren 1 thread)
- Lemon 64 (project Caren 2 thread)
- Forum 64 (competition thread)
- Forum 64 (project Caren 2 thread)
Database Entries:
Coverage:
- Indie Retro News
- Vintage Is The New Old
- C64 – A Visual Commpendium Volume 2
- Gamestar 10/2016 (link to the online article)
- GamersGlobal
- ReGame64 #1
- RGCD – Developer Diary
- RETURN Magazine #21 and #22 – Making of Lindwendture (working title)
- Paidia – Referenzen, Zitate und Rekursionen des Computers als Spiel
- Noted in the Irish Times
Reviews:
- RESET Magazine #8 (page 52)
- Enciclopedia Homebrew Vol. 1
- Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog
- Pixelor (RGCD special)
- The Good Old Days
- Every Game Going
- The Reviewer
Achiements:
- Winner of Forum64 Games Competition 2015: Adventures
- 4Sceners Award 2015 – Best Scene Game
- Meteoriks Demoscene Award 2016 – Best Interactive
- RESET RIPPER
- ZZAP! 64 Sizzler
Caren prepared for Raspberry Pi 3
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Caren 1.3 – enhanced physical release
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