This is so cool. For their graduate thesis, writer & crafter, Alanna Okun made a game about knitting and hand knitted an arcade console to put it in.
The game: https://alannabean.itch.io/loose-ends
More info: http://www.alannaokun.xyz/
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6 BRAND NEW Speccy games created with new game making tool Kwyll in just 2 weeks as part of the Kwyll Game Jam. Play them here:
I've been playing this awesome little #ZXSpectrum game recently. It's a straightforward single screen arcade maze affair. It's utterly charming though and I absolutely love the graphical style & it plays so well.
Worth checking out.
Crash Live is just around the corner. Just over 5 weeks to go & surprisingly still tickets left.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/fusionretrobooks/2047438
Last year's event was great, here's what I thought of it...
So proud to have contributed a few reviews to this amazing #ZXSpectrum magazine. Brand new issue released today.
Packed with reviews of brand new Speccy games & totally free!
Sammy the Snail, new dev Tailzer's entry into the ZX Spectrum Kwyll Game Jam has just had an update. Download it here!
Just made a new old post about an old new game on an old machine.
Dungeons of Gomilandia is a fantastic #ZXSpectrum puzzle game, I highly recommend it if you've never played it before.
https://sloanysoft.wordpress.com/2026/06/21/dungeons-of-gomilandia/
For all #ZXSpectrum folk.
I highly recommend you grab this superb brand new Speccy physical release, Wacky Robot. Absolute bargain at £7.95.
Exclusive review coming up in the next issue of @breakspace.bsky.social which should be out in mid July.
Rescue Rocky is a brilliant new #zxspectrum game from KTB Retro Computing Productions.
It's a fiendish single screen arcade puzzler where you have to rescue trapped idiot humans.
Great gameplay & humour abound, highly recommended, go get!
Good news, everyone! Break Space magazine Issue 5 is here!!
News, reviews, interviews & all the latest #zxspectrum gubbins!
We have 2 stunning games on the cover - Go Go Bunnygun and Sweet Fightin'+2 - and plenty more inside.
Come get it...it's FREEEEEEEEE!
New (partially recycled from old blog) post about the #ZXSpectrum in 2025. Now up on my new blog.
https://sloanysoft.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/the-zx-spectrum-in-2025/
As Retrostreamers has been streamlined & is moving in a different direction, I'm setting up my own blog for my Speccy related stuff.
I'm going to start off by redoing my old Retrostreamers articles, starting with the day I met the legend that is Kevin Toms.
https://sloanysoft.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/having-a-pint-with-kevin-toms/
Looking forward to the annual ZX Spectrum GOTY awards today, it has been amazing to see the ceremony grow over the years.
BubbleBack is nominated for a few awards but my money is on Cubix to sweep the board.
Interviews from 10:30, ceremony from 3pm (UTC)
GOTY 2025
Another new-ish (pseudo-recycled) post.
This time highlighting a bunch of really fun #ZXSpectrum games that caught my eye in 2025, along with my personal top 5 of the year.
https://sloanysoft.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/my-favourite-zx-spectrum-games-of-2025/
New Blog post.
"The Magnificent Seven" - No, not the critically acclaimed compilation from Ocean, I’m talking about 7 brand new ZX Spectrum games released in the first three months of 2026.
Check them out...
https://sloanysoft.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/the-magnificent-seven/
Well this was an absolute treat to see. A fun play through of our game from a "new to me" Youtuber, ZX Bags.
I'll be checking out his other #zxspectrum play throughs, I enjoyed this a lot.