It's lights out and away we go ! Submission portal is open !
We eagerly wait your submission, reminder that the splashscreen has been updated to feature the top 7 donator. You can find it here :
Our first submission comes from
@Rinnegatamante
with his port of Eldritch, a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
You can download it from our website :
The first racing game port brought to you by........... Rinnegatamante !
Have fun testing your driver skills in time trial or up to 4 players in a split-screen mode (perfect for the PSTV) with the port of OpenMRac.
Get it there now at our website :
Our first original game submission is now live, meet "The Four of Us Are Dying" a Silent Hill 2/Alan Wake style survival horror game made by JOSH ALLEN / NORADNINJA.
You can download it from here :
The KyûHEN contest has now ended. Thanks to all the devs who have submitted their game. Now it's time for the judging process. Take note that it will take some time. Around a month. We will keep you updated. Thank you for your patience
New submission by
@hatoving
: The World Ends With You: Solo Remix.
An Android port of an action-RPG game made by Square Enix and Jupiter originally released on the Nintendo DS.
Grab it here :
The competition is getting fiercer with the latest release by
@Rinnegatamante
: OpenFMV engine and its 1st supported game, LATE SHIFT.
Late Shift-a FMV crime thriller-is also the first PSVita homebrew to support official trophies via NoTrpDrm.
Download:
We have posted the results of the contest. You can find them now on our website. We want to thanks all the participants for their submissions, as well as everyone for their support. We have gathered a total of 2000€ !
Three new submissions have been accepted in the game port category: a sonic game by MDASHK, a rhythm game, and a reaction game by Rinnegatamante.
You can get them here :
Results for the contest is now live.
You can find the ranking in our website!
We will soon proceed to distribute the rewards, and later will post an explanation for the ranking and our personal comments about each projects. Thank you for participating and making it successful
Another entry for the Original Game category, VitaHot by MRKane & digradi.
VitaHot is a Vita exclusive re-imagining of the original SuperHOT game where time moves only as you move. Features 6 different game modes and more in the future.
Due to the success of this contest, and the number of submissions, we have extended the judging window to the 5th October.
Tomorrow we will open public voting on our discord server to decide the podium of this contest which will earn most of the prize pool. Be sure to join us!
Ending the day with 2 more submissions : another game port by rinnegatamante Mcpixel 3, an Android port of the interaction based game.
The second original game submission by Haasman0 ! A drone game made in Unity.
Check them out !
You have scored your greatest goal on FIFA and want to save it?
@Rinnegatamante
has the solution! An impressive achievement for something we never really thought possible with his Vita recorder got him the first place of the utility category!
We have gathered around 41 public votes through our discord, thank you !
Reminder that you still have time to submit your vote through our discord server.
We will gather the votes, public and judges voting and release the results at the end of the week.
Going into September with our first submission for the Utility category: Vita TRP Builder by
@withLogic
.
Vita TRP Builder is a small PC utility to build or modify trophy packs that can be used with the NoTrpDrm plugin by Rinnegatamante.
We have reached the deadline of the contest. We want to thanks all of you who have participated with us through your submissions or your financial support !
We still have some projects submitted in the queue that we will publish during the day so check out our website !
The clock is ticking!
We are approaching the final day of submissions for this contest, which will conclude on September 22nd at 23:59 UTC.
We have many submissions in the queue, and more are expected tomorrow.
Devs and players, get ready to celebrate the end of the contest!
Final day, we’ve got a huge wave of submissions !
ezRemote Client by CY33HC is a File Manager application that allows you to connect the VITA to remote FTP, SMB, NFS, WebDAV servers to transfer and manage files.
Two new submission are now available on our website ! Another port by rinnegatamante : Port of Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War and Freespace 2, and the first submission of BUNKAI : MarmaladeBoy_LCD a port of a LCD game.
Check them out now :
The 4th of September, the 4th Original Game joins the contest.
Gnomopolis by Sergorov is a modern take on Pacman with a touch of epic fantasy: collect all the dungeon treasures and unlock the exit before the time runs out!
With the PSstore deadline cutting down any new release is there a way of getting great games on your Vita?
@m1s3ry_
certainly is confident with decompiling and porting crashlands! The technical challenge and the performance being great makes it the winner of the port category!
And the chosen splashscreen was made by Daniel Gandelman. An original design with those great looking neon triangles and the use of the logo and name in the middle were why we chosed this one originally
We are considering adding 10 more day before the end of the contest because some projects needs more time. To all the people who plan to participate. Do you need more time?
Can we make a quality homebrew game without unity? With the tools created and adapted by the Vita community?
@crait
definitely proved it with his impressive treasure chasers! Great pixel art and soundtrack, addictive and fun, it's the winner of the Game 2 category!
How complete a unity homebrew project can be?
@Lapy05575948
has the answer with brain splitter ! A very original concept of dual ship control tied with multiple game mode and a surprising trophy system and a balanced difficulty makes brain splitter the winner of Game 1!
It has been a week since we have announced the launch of FuHEN. Thanks to your donations, we have collected 685 euros which will be added to the prize pool.
Your support matters as it also help to motivate developers to join the contest. And we want to thank you for that :
Following a complaint from PG team regarding their participation on the Forelli redemption game mod that was submitted without their approval, Forelli redemption has been disqualified from the contest.
New submission in the original game category.
Ever wanted to feel the animal crossing experience on your vita? Spartan fox made it possible with Animal Vitas !
Make friends or ennemis in the village, customize your house and explore caves, gather ressources to craft items.
McPixel 3 was updated to version v.1.1 which fix a stack overflow issue causing sporadic crashes when loading 3D objects in certain minigames.
Get the updated version here :
You love puzzle games? WITHLOGIC made sure you won’t rest your brain with the 2 new game port submissions !
Escape from the fire in a labyrinth and its deadly traps to successfully reunite with your loved one.
Get them there:
New update for Gnomopolis by SERGOROV :
4 more playable levels (total 10), new functions like multiple floors in one level (check level 9!) and a all new credits screen.
Get the latest release here :
Brain Splitter 1.01
#PSVita
#vitaisland
- New game mode (Swapper mode).
- Added a text of "Loading" when scenes are loading.
- And smalls tweaks to improved performance.
we are sorry for that radio silence but do not worry, we are still working on making this contest, it's only a matter of days but the contest is set to launch during march, we will give an exact date once we finish the backend
In the meantime while waiting we will showcase the
The TOP 7 donators who contributed the most to the prize pool will have their name added on the contest splash screen that will be shown during the boot of all submissions !
We are grateful for your support and hope that will motivate you to support even further the contest !
@BalderDragon
@Rinnegatamante
Fan of mysteries ? You love exploration? You will love Gone Home, a port made by SOUP'UM !
Gone Home is an interactive exploration simulator where you can interact with your environment to discover the story of the game.
You think the PSVita lacks third person shooters in a doom like environment ?
@BalderDragon
has released Purified, an impressive original game on the PSVita made with unity featuring and official soundtrack composed by Brian Czernikowski!
@miller_morais
The last Original Game submission is by BOKOYOSS named Dream Punk !
In Dream Punk, you are falling, and you can't wake up. Bounce, hookshot, glide and grind through a candy colored world, collecting videotapes for your neighbor.
Get it now :
New Original game, BonkBots! By ALMIDASA STUDIOS !
BonkBots! is an arcade fighting game where your goal is to defeat waves of bots by either smashing them with a hammer or slashing their wires with a sword.
A late submission that unfortunately wasn't able to be part of the selection, but the awesome design made by
@Windvern
(gekihen designer) couldn't just be unused for us and instead we decided to use it in another way
We cannot thank
@HackerGen
enough for the huge contribution he made. By helping us with the website creation and letting us use
@CustomProtocol
servers to host our contest as well as some interesting UI idea which makes the website what it is today.
Another Original Game by
@miller_morais
: Feline Future !
A sci-fi exploration and action game where players control a character with sword and blaster abilities, battling robots in a futuristic environment with no predefined objectives.
Get it now :
An interesting concept from AzureGladiator of making 4 splashscreen with the main color being the utility, smart!
The use of the kyuhen japenese word at the background is superbly done
To all the participants who couldn't make it into the podium, don't worry we have you covered. We have psn code for Awesome Pea 2 and Norman Great illusion to give to each participants 😉
@BalderDragon
Fan of the DRIVER series but want to have the game at native resolution ? Enjoy REDRIVER2 by OSIRISX.
A port of the reverse engineered Driver 2 for the PSVita !
Game 1 : Homebrew game developed using unity sdk and gamemakersdk
Game 2 : Homebrew game made from scratch with libs from vitasdk/dolcesdk and lua
Utility : Homebrews
Ports : Port of games from other platforms to the PSVita
Rolly Poly by
@Spartanfoxy
has been updated
What's new :
2 new levels(6 total),
A first person view by pressing select,
The ability to toggle gravity mode with the right trigger
Before launching the contest we are looking for submissions for design of a splash screen for the contest that participants will include at the boot of their game/homebrew, just like gekihen or pspgenisis. The winning entry will receive €50 and two Vita game codes ( NA or EU ).
Your submission will have to respect the 3 rules :
-1 The submission should have the colors of the KyuHEN contest, as well as the name and Japanese letters (for exemple our twitter banner, the blue and 4 colors)
-2 It must include logos of
@frwololo
,
@PSXPlace
@PlayStationHaX
@BalderDragon
Fan of Professor Layton? Want to experience it on the PSVita ?
@Rinnegatamante
has the solution for you with Professor Layton: Curious Village HD !
This is a wrapper/port of Professor Layton: Curious Village HD for the PS Vita.
@BalderDragon
@Rinnegatamante
Gnomopolis by SERGOROV has been updated to v0.7.187 :
- lot of bug fixes and improvements and some visual overhaul.
Get the new version here :
Blue : 3e6bf7
Red : f6337e
Yellow : ffd800
Green : 00bd8c
Background color : 141c26
This is just for the people who want the exact colors you may try something a little different than those value
-3 Include a thanks mention toward the vita community for the help given to make this homebrew contest a reality. (It can be anything, a small line at the bottom or something big. Your choice
You can submit your KyuHEN splash screen by email to kyuhencontest
@gmail
.com