Adventures in the Magic Forest

Oh wow, friends! The long-awaited moment has finally arrived. You waited and your patience has been rewarded! And there are exactly two pieces of news, and both are good :-)

The first good news

Today a brand-new game has been released on our site, The Land of Rustles 2, by an author with the nickname Slip. It's the continuation of the adventures of the Otter with a human face and Kurilka in an amazing world inhabited by the Rustles.

This time the Otter will have to solve several tricky puzzles in a magic forest populated by various characters – both good and evil. The story begins with a little Rustle falling ill, and to cure her, the cat Murka needs a magic book. As you progress through the game, you'll have to complete many quests, as well as learn to jump nimbly and throw combat stars, because the forest is full of enemies, and they never sleep!

The game features gorgeous full-color graphics, as it's designed to run on a modern ZX Spectrum clone called TS-Conf. And if you don't have a real computer of this architecture – no problem, the downloadable archive includes a Windows version of the game (it's a fresh UnrealSpeccy emulator with autorun of the original game's binary files configured).

It's especially worth noting that the game has full-screen scrolling (which is rare even for modern ZX Spectrum clones) and the ability to listen to music and sounds under NeoGS, they sound wonderful! By the way, the music for the game was written by the famous musician MmcM, whose tracks you've surely already heard in other games.

In total, 9 people took part in the development, and even I found some work – I translated the game into Russian and took part in testing :-) In short, the game is fire, download it and play!

P.S. By the way, Slip has a community on Boosty: https://boosty.to/zxevolution where we discuss the games being developed, as well as plan future projects. You can do that too :)

The second good news

The second good news is that we've finally launched game payments via itch.io, where hassle-free payment with Paypal and credit cards is available!

We've linked the accounts on itch.io and ZXOnline so that purchases you make there are credited on ZXOnline and thus you can get the same benefits as if you bought directly on ZXOnline (for example, the ability to write reviews and rate games).

Right now, purchasing via itch.io is available for three games – New Rustles 2, EL BIGOTUDO and Zedex Tanks, but we'll add all the rest very soon. All new games will also be automatically listed on itch.io and ZX Online. How do you buy a game via itch.io? It's very simple. On the game page, under the payment widget, you'll see the branded itch.io icon and detailed instructions on what to do. You can even just google the game on itch.io, but in that case you won't get the game license on ZXO and all the perks that come with it.

That's it, there's no point in wasting any more time, it's time to start exploring the magic forest! All the best and thank you!