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Hi Nick, thanks so much for playing Knightmare! Sorry not to have replied sooner, I've been taking a break from social media. Glad your enjoyed the game 😄

Reply of "No because it's gone woke" leaves alien scientists puzzled.

And a great job you did too! 👊

I did the cover art (and some of the graphics) for @tomjamespotter.bsky.social's new game, buy it now from @bitmapsoft.bsky.social!

www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/s-c-...

#ZXSpectrum #retrogames #indiegamedev

Haha, I'm in it too now!

Go for it 😁

Excellent! 😁

Eek! 😁

Nice! 😁

Throwing this out for fun: Anyone fancy getting a credit on a published #ZXSpectrum game? I need enemy sprites for my game but I don't enjoy creating them. Each 2 frames of animation, 16x16 and 32x16. Example below. No money, just for fun! #pixelart #indiedev #8bit

Glad you're enjoying it! And congrats on the Freeze-ZX coverage! 🤟

Thank you, sir!

👀😁🤟 Wow, we're only 1 sale away from hitting 50% of copies of S.C.I.O.N sold! Thanks to everyone who's bought one! If you haven't yet, remaining copies can be picked up from bitmapsoft.co.uk Support retro creators and keep the scene alive! 😁👊🙌 #ZXSpectrum #retrogames #indiedev

So it has to go further to nearest. The other way round wouldn't work.

As I have only about 40kb for the whole game, everything has to use as little memory as possible. A routine that worked out what can and can't be seen, and therefore what to draw would take a lot of memory. So I simply have it draw everything, and elements that aren't in view just get drawn over.

Yeah, I think you've pretty much got it. The screen renders in layers, starting with the furthest away from the viewpoint. If you imagine the screen split into a series of rectangles and trapezoids, they get progressively infilled according to the local map environment.

I'm not sure whether you're interested to know about how the map is stored in memory and navigated, or how the elements of the screen are drawn?

Akalabeth! That is a seriously old-school example 😂

Thanks. I can't really speak to how others have done it, but mine is just a fairly simple drawing routine. It's not really 3d in any sense.

Making progress in "Dungeon Decks" for #ZXSpectrum. Minimap working, with wondering monsters appearing and roaming freely, triggering combat when they meet the player.
#8bit #retro #mpagd #speccy #80s #90s #indiedev

Making progress in "Dungeon Decks" for #ZXSpectrum. Minimap working, with wondering monsters appearing and roaming freely, triggering combat when they meet the player.
#8bit #retro #mpagd #speccy #80s #90s #indiedev

To all the wonderful folks who've bought a copy of S.C.I.O.N from Bitmapsoft, here's a little something to say thanks: check the first reply for ALL LEVEL CODES and the INFINITE ENERGY CHEAT CODE! 😅😇 #ZXSpectrum #retrogames #mpagd #80s #speccy

Thanks Eric! Hope you enjoy it! :)

Thanks Robert! I think the first shipment went out on March 10th. Hope you enjoy it! :)

Thanks Tim, much appreciated!

Level 2: 5216
Level 3: 0309
Level 4: 3471
Level 5: 8570
Level 6: 6694
Infinite energy cheat: 1337

To all the wonderful folks who've bought a copy of S.C.I.O.N from Bitmapsoft, here's a little something to say thanks: check the first reply for ALL LEVEL CODES and the INFINITE ENERGY CHEAT CODE! 😅😇 #ZXSpectrum #retrogames #mpagd #80s #speccy

Cheers matey 🤟

Dungeon Decks is the work-in-progress 3rd game from Sausageware Games for the #ZXSpectrum! It's a dungeon-crawler/deck-builder. What do you reckon so far? #retrogames #8bit #mpagd #80s #90s #homebrew

Wow, congrats on selling out the first batch!