The verdict is in! The MSXdev24 game compo has reached its pinnacle and published the end results. All submitted MSXdev24 games have been carefully examined, judged, scored and finally ranked by the expert jury panel and they have a solid conclusion. So, here are the results.
When the MSXdev24 compo started at May the first 2024, contestants had 9 months to forge an exclusive game for the MSX platform. As this was another “Freestyle” edition, game developers had the option to go all out and use whatever MSX hardware available to cram their game at. And they did, with 31 enrolled games, the MSXdev24 show proves to be a good platform to showcase and enjoy MSX games.
Being a jury at MSXdev is not always easy. It’s fun, sure. But easy…? Judging a huge pile of new games in just a few weeks and having to write a decent report about it, takes a good juror to accomplish. Luckily, we did have such people. This year’s panel of MSX experts have done an absolute awesome job. They succeeded to have all games properly rated and ranked.
Right now, you’ll probably be like “just the facts, ma’am!” – Sure, sure, hold your jolly horses. Here we go!
With 513 out of 600 points, the award for the best overall MSXdev24 game reward goes to:
“Maiden’s Extreme Fist – BUN-GA-RUA” by Retromixis
The jurors where nothing but impressed with this game, and ranked it both the highest overall score and best sound score. A true masterpiece from Japan and we’d like to congratulate Retromixis with this outstanding achievement!
Perhaps needless to say, but of course all contestants of MSXdev24 have done a marvellous job and we congratulate every one, as you are all winners. It is you that have the spirit to carry on the MSX legacy and deliver new content. A deep bow to all of you.
The final report of MSXdev24 contains all the juror’s scores and judgments, and also features ranking lists of all games for all categories. You can find this report as PDF file, right here:
With a contest comes prizes, and we have some. As always, the MSXdev takes donations and accept sponsored items for contestants to win. This year’s donations add up to 890 euros, contributed by MSX fans from all over the world. Together with that, we also have 9 sponsored items to give away. To top it off, each contestant receives all running digital editions of the BrewOtaku magazine. How’s that!
And with that, we hope you have all enjoyed this years edition of MSXdev as much as we have!
Before we go, we’d like to thank everybody – you, the MSX fan, for your endless support. All participants for joining. The jury members for their judging duties. The sponsors for their items. The donators for, well, donating to the cause. The magazines for their interest. MSXall and Konamito for the web-services. The File Hunter for his online game hosting, and last but not least, all those wonderful people who have influenced the MSXdev23 edition in any way. Could we also thank ourselves for hosting the show? Well, maybe we can 🙂
It has been an honor working with all of you.
Until next year.
Signing off, with love:
John Hassink & Róman van der Meulen – organizing party of MSXdev24
