About the Rustles and the Rescue of the Stolen Rabbit

Let's start with the good news: all games from the ZXBITLES team will appear on the ZX Online website. These games are notable for their complete absence of clashing and deeply thought-out gameplay. The first game in the series, "Red Raid: The Beginning…", is already available today. In terms of genre, it should be described as "an action game with puzzle elements." Each location is a new riddle that you can't just get through without engaging your brain. Overall, it's quite addictive to play. By the way, the game even runs on a classic 48k Spectrum. The game came out back in 2021, but if you haven't seen it or tried playing it yet, I highly recommend it. Also, another game has been added to the site about mysterious creatures that live under the autumn leaves — the Shurshi. This is a completely new world that emerged out of nowhere right on the Spectrum. The author of this world, Sergey Slobodchikov (aka Slip), claims that he saw the Shurshi with his own eyes and decided to tell us about how they live. The first game about these creatures ("The Land of the Shurshi: Vydra and Kurilshchik") is a platformer with a large number of multicolored, graphically rich locations and all sorts of bells and whistles like multi-channel AY music, sampled special effects, and support for an 8-button joystick. The full version of the game for the ZX Evolution platform is already available. There is also a version with a built-in emulator, so you can play it on Windows without having to buy a "hardware" ZX Evo.

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Now a bit about something important. I would like to tell you, friends, that one of the members of our international team, Evgeny Sukhomlin, lives in Ukraine. You may know him as the co-author and inspiration behind the Delta's Shadow series, or as the owner of the Sinc LAIR YouTube channel, or as the developer of physical versions of many modern Spectrum games. Due to well-known events, most of his audience currently cannot transfer funds to Patreon. Although Evgeny did not ask me to post this link here, I hope that someone from the community (living outside Russia or Belarus) will take an interest in Evgeny's work and that this will help him get through this difficult time. Thank you very much!