Lasers
Yes. Lasers.
Projects
Puny Earthling
A new game in development for the Commodore 64.
Scumbotron
A lost arcade game from the '80s (History).
Play it now in your web browser!
Developed for the Commander X16, but being ported to all the major platforms (Amiga, Sega Megadrive, Gameboy Advance etc...)
EvilPixie
A modern, open source pixel paint program, aiming to bring back the joy of Deluxe Paint.
Read more at evilpixie.scumways.com.
Blog
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Scanner terminals
I've added some handy scanner terminals, to show rooms containing unsmashed smashables. -
Cutscenes
It's been a quiet few weeks on the Puny Human front. My weekends have been spent jumping down a cutscene rabbithole. -
Background graphic style tests
I've been experimenting with background graphic styles. -
Puny Earthling - Preview 1
It's not a game yet, but you can play it. -
Crabbots
Crabbots scuttle across platforms, up and down walls and along ceilings. -
SproingPads
When I first added the giant fan, there was a little bug in the player movement code. -
My Biggest Fan
I've added a giant fan, which blows air all the way up a central shaft of the UFO. -
The Probing Chamber
Our story begins - as so many stories do - in the Probing Chamber. -
Grumpbots
Grumpy killbots. -
Doors
I've added doors. They open! They close! Is there anything they _can't_ do? -
Stompers
Stompers! -
Smashables
Everyone knows you can't mount a good interstellar conquest without regular tea breaks. -
Danger Danger
Every 8 bit platform game needs baddies that mindlessly patrol left and right. It's the law. -
Technical Interlude - Memory Budget
Even though the Commodore 64 is a powerful machine with a blisteringly fast one Megahertz CPU and a gargantuan 64 Kilobytes of RAM, these resources are not infinite. -
Player Movement
I want a game where just moving around the map is, in itself, fun. -
Puny Earthling
I'm writing a game for the Commodore 64. Because that is a perfectly sane way to spend your spare time in 2024.