Marbles Squared (ZX Spectrum Next)

Devlog

• 2021-07-16 (update release)
  July 16, 2021 by rem#nextbasic, #Retro, #specnext, #spectrum-next, #zxnext, #ZX Spectrum, #zx-spectrum-next

  The game went live just under a week ago and the feedback has been really nice to see. There’s been a balance of “regular” players and power players, and in those power players is where the game... Continue reading

  
• 2021-07-10
  July 10, 2021 by rem

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  #nextbasic, #Retro, #specnext, #spectrum-next, #zxnext, #ZX Spectrum, #zx-spectrum-next

  After ten months of time snatching and nearly eagerly releasing last weekend, Marbles Squared is finally live and available for everyone with a Spectrum Next. I will be releasing a web version too in... Continue reading
• 2021-07-05
  July 05, 2021 by rem

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  #spectrumnext, #zxnext, #nextbasic, #Retro, #specnext, #spectrum-next, #ZX Spectrum, #zx-spectrum-next

  Ready for release. After nearly ten months of tinkering in the evening, the Marbles Squared ZX Spectrum Next port is going live this weekend. It’s not that it actually took 10 months to develop, it... Continue reading
• 2021-06-14
  June 14, 2021 by rem

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  #specnext, #zxnext, #nextbasic

  Marbles Squared is now in the last leg of development and I’m working through the minor bugs in the software - things like a single white pixel sometimes appears in the bottom of the “game over”... Continue reading
• 2021-05-19
  May 19, 2021 by rem#zxnext, #spectrum-next

  During game play it always bothered me that there was no fluidity to the interaction. That is, you select a block and they swap into the right place. There’s no falling effect, no selection effect... Continue reading
• 2021-05-18
  May 18, 2021 by rem#zxspectrumnext, #zxnext

  Progress is being made. Having coded this game a number of times over the last 20 years and actually having played it a lot , I was finding that the spectrum flavour was somewhat harder than I would l... Continue reading
• 2021-03-23
  March 23, 2021 by rem#zxnext, #spectrum-next, #Retro, #specnext, #ZX Spectrum, #zx-spectrum-next, #nextbasic

  It’s been a while since posting any progress on this project, but I’ve been working away quietly. What’s nice about Marbles is that because the game is so familiar to me, it let’s me spend tim... Continue reading
• 2020-11-23
  November 23, 2020 by rem

  For the last few weeks I’ve had a mostly working version of the game logic for Marbles2 on the Spectrum Next. One of goals I wanted in place was to be able to share high scores and to get remote hig... Continue reading
• 2020-11-08
  November 08, 2020 by rem

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  I’ve been making super minor changes since I started this game, focusing mostly on getting the blocks to drop in a way that doesn’t halt the entire game play. Since the game is (currently) written... Continue reading
• 2020-10-14
  November 08, 2020 by rem

  Just starting out and really wanting to start something new whilst making a game that I would enjoy playing myself. I’m come to appreciate that I really like puzzles in games - whether it’s spotti... Continue reading