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A sigh of relief, as the game is finally in an upload worthy state.
I’m sure there’s plenty of bugs, mounds of forgotten features, and odd little untweaked things that aren’t quite right, but what’s here is plenty enough to be counted as Release 1.

Download Alien Deathmatch 2 3Mb!!!

The game, in it’s current Release 1 state has quite a few new features from those in AD1.

Of course, the Breeds are more pronounced. Faster breeds, exploding breeds, and even breeds that drop pickups are all strewn around the world, ready to be blasted away..

Teleporters are in, and fun to run through! Step on a Green tile to be flung to another Green tile, randomly on the level! (Assuming they’re there, of course!)
Once used, all teleporters are disabled for a short while, so use them wisely.

Highlighted levels, (once you upload your highscores!) will display today’s newest level, along with yesterday’s, and the day before’s.. My guess is, if anyone’s going to playing a level, it’d be one of those!!

And, of course, the greatest new feature of them all..

Hmm….
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And there’s an Editor!!!
Go nuts
Draw the level, fiddle with the sliders, Hit B (or click the joystick icon) to test it out, make sure you give it a name, and then save..
Next time you upload your latest highscores, the game will magically upload any new levels you have, too.. (one at a time, of course, we don’t want the server exploding!!)
Share the .lev file with a mate, and you can both play peacefully.. Or, give it time, and it’ll pop up on the daily download list, for everyone else..
Sorted!

What else?
The new stuff might be fun, but I’m sure there’s plenty more..
If you have ANY ideas, pop ‘em into the comments, and I’ll see what I can do.
This is only Release 1!

A while ago, I made this. Horizontal Shooter.
Fly about, shoot the bad guys, guard the good guys.
A nice enough game, lovely lines all over, but somehow lacking in something extra.

This week.. I added something extra!

See inside for more!

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Wednesday Workshop #162 asked for folk to create a game with a big-ass timer.
My entry was simple.
Open a vault, Grab the loot, Run for your life, Drive to escape, have a gunfight, sorted!
All with a timer in the corner, and all played with the mouse.

 
The game’s mostly all Left clicks, but the short driving scene requires you to right click occasionally, too.
 
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Puzzobomb gets a place in WebUser, issue 189.
That’s exactly 20 issues after Horizontal Shooter was in.
And, if you’re counting, it’s exactly 2 pages earlier.. I’ve been bumped up to page 38, now! Woot.

2 pages in 20 issues..

Hmm..
By issue 549 I should be on the front page!
Woohoo! That’s only 13 years away!

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Tomb Raider meets Pitfall!

Retro Raider took a few days to get into a decent build, and then over the course of a few weeks I added lots of extra little chunky bits.

Recently I’ve been tweaking it even more.
There’s now a handful of levels, a few collectables, doors, keys, and even a little Ghost Replay/Time Trial mode.

Good, clean, retro happyness!
There’s even a level editor to keep you entertained even longer!

You can Download RetroRaider here, and have some fun! As usual, that link will be the most up to date version, and if there’s any major changes, I’ll let you know.

Puzzobomb, a mix of Puzznic and Bombs.. (For Jericho!)

Starting with the Wednesday Workshop base from the other day, I decided that yes, I would build it up a bit.
 
So, I opened up the Amstrad CPC game “Puzznix” which, since I was a kid, I’d always assumed to be “the original game”.. Turns out it wasn’t…

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I don’t normally post individual Workshop entries. They’re not usually good enough to make it to single-post-worthy status!
This week’s workshop is a Jericho-based “Explosive” challenge, and so I made a small puzzle game with Bombs.
It’s quite an interesting puzzle game.
Take the basic rules of the classic Puzznix game, add bombs, and score it all on a Golf-style scorechart.

The game looks quite nice, nicking the “chunky” block style from Blockman, and there’s some half-assed sound effects.

Essentially though, it’s a nice puzzle engine that I think I’d like to build upon.
Quite where it’ll end up, I’m not sure, but for now it’s got a nice 18-puzzle level set, and a few of them are vaguely puzzley!

Left mouse to move, right mouse to explode bombs, and that’s pretty much all you’ll need.
You can download Puzzobomb here.

For now it’s Windows only.