I’m writing a game for the Commodore 64.
Because that is a perfectly sane way to spend your spare time in 2024.
It’s tentatively titled “Puny Earthling”.
You play a cat abducted by marauding aliens as they plot their conquest of Earth. Obviously, being a cat, you are a complete pain in the arse, and wander around the UFO causing trouble. Cause enough trouble and the aliens might just rethink their invasion plans…
This is going to be a flip-screen platform game. It’s not going to be a technical tour de force. It’s not going to be pushing the limits of the C64. It’s not going to coax amazing feats of computation out of a humble little 1MHz 6510. It’s not going to cause any VIC II or SID chips to melt in their sockets.
But it’s going to be fun, dammit.
At least, I’m going to have fun coding it. It might even be fun to play.
Stranger things have happened.