Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Game #4/5 - Dodge ' Em

So this is game 4/5, modelled on Atari's VCS chasing game. It's actually a complete rewrite from the ground up, I wasn't happy with the first one. What I find with this sort of thing is you get a feel as you go.

So the next games are planned to be Frogger, Pacman and Space Invaders.

Now BASIC has its limitations, and the main one is being interpreted. In this you can write code in Assembler but that's quite heavy

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