THE LIFE OF A GAME DEVELOPER

Can I port Lemmings to the ZX Spectrum Next? Follow alone with my journey and lets see how far I can get!

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So while porting Super Crate Box to the NEXT I decided to break with the norm, and use the hardware more fully. While doing so… I realised I’m probably the…

While doing a Raspberry Pi runner for GameMaker, I also added some GPIO functions, and decided to try and hook up an SD card to a Pi.

In this final part for now, I take a look at the famous explosion and nuke!

This was a pretty exciting one, as I finally got some NEXT hardware of my own, so the first task was to get it all running.

I decided to get back to work and fix my sprite clipping for my object rendering. It turned out to be a simple fix and was just messing up when…

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Now that I knew things were actually possible, it was time to start thinking about the levels themselves. I started reading up on the level format, a text file by…

In this post, we look at drawing both the levels, and a Lemming itself. This will look at different ways of drawing, and trying to get them as fast as…