Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Game 8 : Space Invaders

So, Space Invaders is now working. Not authentic (it's not colour in real life, it has cellophane on the screen). The obvious other differences are the shields, which are reduced to an 8x8 block array - because the one thing that you can't do on the computer is read the screen. So it disintegrates in small blocks.
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