I have great pleasure in releasing Androidz Redux - an attempted remaster of my 1994 arcade game for the BBC Micro!
Play online via jsBeeb - https://bbc.godbolt.org/?disc=https://w ... d&autoboot, or download the attachment below.
Featuring 20 levels, and a lot of shoehorning to get the game into the extra colours available under Mode 2, Androidz Redux features a handful of newly designed graphics, and some revised gameplay.
I'll be in the process of uploading the game to my website, and to Github in the coming days. I'm hoping to create a more annotated version of the code, so that anyone interested can perform a compressed build of the game.
I've now pushed a repo of the current codebase to https://github.com/sassquad/androidz-redux
I've wanted to get this out of the door for months, but have been waylaid by all manner of distractions, and sometimes sheer lack of enthusiasm, developer burnout. You name it, I've been through it. But here we are.
A massive thank you to everyone who has responded to my nagging threads over the past year (yes, it was August last year when I began to blow the dust off this game), and particularly to 0xCODE who helped me with a variety of techniques to help me out of tight spots earlier this year.
I've playtested this game to death in the past few days, but am always open to any other issues or improvements that can be made. I'll be especially keen to hear from anyone who tries it on real computers. So far, I've only used the b2 emulator on Mac OS to test it.
I hope you enjoy this remastered edition of the game.
