Go Mummy! (ZX Spectrum Next)

Devlog

• Fin - 2020-08-25
  August 25, 2020 by rem

  Fin. After some 4 months of lockdown and side project tinkering, Go Mummy! (renamed from Oh Mummy!) is complete and done. I released it on the 14-August 2020 through itch.io and I’ve had some lovely... Continue reading
• 2020-08-09
  August 09, 2020 by rem

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  The last series of work has been play testing, trying to catalogue and fix bugs and adding polish the game where possible. I’ve been wanting to bring a bit more visual interest to the screens I had... Continue reading
• 2020-07-28
  July 28, 2020 by rem

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  After last week’s failure in sound this week(end) was a total win over sound 💪 I knew the game played better with some audible feedback and I also knew that the only way I could pull it off in Ne... Continue reading
• 2020-07-20
  July 20, 2020 by rem

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  This week’s episode: Experiments in sound…or rather: failures in sound. Since I’m writing this game in NextBASIC I’m abstracted much higher up that machine code (which has it’s obvious benef... Continue reading

  
• 2020-07-07
  July 07, 2020 by rem

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  This most recent round of development has been dedicated to squashing out bugs and investing in performance optimisations. What’s particularly fun about NextBASIC is that it’s so close to the meta... Continue reading
• 2020-06-25
  June 29, 2020 by rem

  As with any good side project contended by pandemics, needing to work “real work”, fathers day and all the like, my Oh Mummy project is plodding along. This last weekend saw music being generously... Continue reading
• 2020-06-15
  June 15, 2020 by rem

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  I’ve started on the more mundane aspects of the development, also known as the parts that I find hardest: artwork and general information screens. Up until now I was (attempting to) faithfully recre... Continue reading

  
• 2020-06-07
  June 08, 2020 by rem

  I’ve been extremely wary of runtime performance and have spent pretty much all my time sweating the details on game play without moving onto things like scoring, or the help screens etc. My last ent... Continue reading
• 2020-06-03
  June 08, 2020 by rem

  After experiments in switching to using BANK memory instead of arrays proved only that there was no performance benefit - perhaps even a deficit. Thank god than that I’m writing my code on my Mac an... Continue reading
• 2020-06-01
  June 01, 2020 by rem

  Making some decent progress. NextBASIC is always going to be slower (much) than assembly, so I’m trying to look carefully at the code path to see what optimisations I can do. I did however manage to... Continue reading
• 2020-05-25
  May 25, 2020 by rem

  During development I’ve been using Cspect and for certain bits like yesterday’s Fisher-Yates shuffle, I’ll use % RND to get random numbers. However, I also want to prevent my game from being rep... Continue reading
• 2020-05-24
  May 25, 2020 by rem

  I’ve managed to solve a number picking algorithm that I’m happy with the performance of in NextBASIC. It’s a Fisher Yates sort, then picking the first 4 items (actually I cut the sort at the fou... Continue reading