At ECCC 2013, I presented some ideas for a “massively” multiplayer networked Commodore 64 game, and several people have joined the project to help out. Thanks to the appropriately named Polar Vortex (which I still think would make an awesome name for a metal band, and no connection to the game), we got a fair bit done on it over the holidays.
Here’s a teaser image from the real-time map:
It’s actually playable now, please head over to the Google Group if you want to try it out!