Hello!! Sorry for the intrusion, hehehe. My name is Felipe, and until recently, I have been editing games for the Spectrum on cassette. Due to personal and work reasons, I’m going to stop editing, and I'm saying goodbye with a compilation of homebrew games for The Spectrum on USB. I want it to be the best and most complete compilation of homebrew games that has ever been made. It will be a non-profit edition, just to provide users of The Spectrum with a pack to spend hours and hours in front of their ZX. I’ve seen some of your games on Itch.io and wanted to ask if you would be interested in contributing any of your ZX games to this compilation. I already have legendary creators from the scene on board, but I’d also like to reach out to you. It can be one game, two, or as many as you want, in .TAP format. Even simply granting me permission and letting me know which games I could include would be enough, and I can download them from Itch.io. We have created a system where the games will be encrypted, and no one will be able to use them digitally; they will only be playable on their The Spectrum, Divide, or computer. My email is playonretro@gmail.com. Best regards, and thank you very much
Hi Felipe, Sorry for the late response. I haven't checked my itch.io for a few weeks. Please feel free to use Mage Rage, Mazania - Mage Rage Part II and Alien Slaphead in your compilation.
Very nice game. Our German-language review can be found in our recorded livestream starting at 02:10:02. Subscription to our YouTube or Twitch channel is welcome. 🙂
Thanks mate. I really should start testing the games with a joystick. Got too used to playing speccy games with the keyboard. Do you remember what rating you got at the end?
Completed it on my Spectrum 128K and CRT monitor yesterday. I played with Sinclair joystick and it was really hard to select the questions. When I pushed the stick several times up, I could get to select question one and same with question 3. It is some kind of bug there I think. The keys to select questions did not work. The joystick works fine in the game.
Oh really. When I tested it the keys worked every time T for top, M for middle, B for bottom. T is joystick up, M is fire and B is joystick down nut I haven't tested that. Maybe try with the keyboard controls only and see if that is any better. If you can answer the questions easier then you will get a better U.R.A at the end of the game. If you have children or relatives with children you could ask them to play it. I made the game quite easy. Well easier than my other games so that children could have fun and education with it :D
Thanks! I got it. To me this is not so intuitive. It would be better when the alternatives came, move joystick up and down and press fire to select the answer. I also though that the letters there where the ones to use on the keyboard but it is the in game keys that work for selecting. When my daughter come to me next time we will play it together. I think it might be a little hard for her, even if the game is quite easy. At least the questions will be fun :)
I'm confused. Moving the joystick up and down and pressing fire to select the answer when they appear is how it should work. Also it is the letters next to the answer which you use on the keyboard to choose the correct answer. 'T' for top, 'M' for middle and 'B' for bottom. It's from a famous gameshow in the UK called Strike It Lucky. The only in game key is the 'M'. Left and Right in-game is 'Q' and 'W', these cannot work to select answers as I've assigned the other keys. I know for sure it works fine on keyboard as I tested it out today and it works as it always has. So I'm not sure what's happening with your version. How are you playing it? Emulation or real hardware, and if real hardware which mode of the Spectrum?
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Hello!! Sorry for the intrusion, hehehe. My name is Felipe, and until recently, I have been editing games for the Spectrum on cassette. Due to personal and work reasons, I’m going to stop editing, and I'm saying goodbye with a compilation of homebrew games for The Spectrum on USB. I want it to be the best and most complete compilation of homebrew games that has ever been made. It will be a non-profit edition, just to provide users of The Spectrum with a pack to spend hours and hours in front of their ZX. I’ve seen some of your games on Itch.io and wanted to ask if you would be interested in contributing any of your ZX games to this compilation. I already have legendary creators from the scene on board, but I’d also like to reach out to you. It can be one game, two, or as many as you want, in .TAP format. Even simply granting me permission and letting me know which games I could include would be enough, and I can download them from Itch.io. We have created a system where the games will be encrypted, and no one will be able to use them digitally; they will only be playable on their The Spectrum, Divide, or computer. My email is playonretro@gmail.com. Best regards, and thank you very much
Hi Felipe, Sorry for the late response. I haven't checked my itch.io for a few weeks. Please feel free to use Mage Rage, Mazania - Mage Rage Part II and Alien Slaphead in your compilation.
Regards, John.
Sorry for the delay in this case..... THANKS A LOT!!!!
No worries mate
Very nice game. Our German-language review can be found in our recorded livestream starting at 02:10:02. Subscription to our YouTube or Twitch channel is welcome. 🙂
Thank you very much 😊👍
Cool game. What tools did you use to build this game?
I used a fork of AGD called AGDx Mini. I've used it for everything besides my first game which was in AGDx.
Had fun, even finished it! Kids game... more like Hitch game :p
Also had issues with Kempston, doesn't work at all on the questions so I went KB.
Thanks mate, enjoyed!
Thanks mate. I really should start testing the games with a joystick. Got too used to playing speccy games with the keyboard. Do you remember what rating you got at the end?
I do not, but i got one question wrong... I said Brain! and I did miss some items. I have a VoD though :)
Is VoD a video of the game? I'm not great with acronyms LOL. I'll have to check it out :)
Nice and cute game, thanks man!
Thanks mate. Glad you like it :D
Cute game :) Nice gfx, gameplay and music.
Thanks. Happy you like it :D
Completed it on my Spectrum 128K and CRT monitor yesterday. I played with Sinclair joystick and it was really hard to select the questions. When I pushed the stick several times up, I could get to select question one and same with question 3. It is some kind of bug there I think. The keys to select questions did not work. The joystick works fine in the game.
Oh really. When I tested it the keys worked every time T for top, M for middle, B for bottom. T is joystick up, M is fire and B is joystick down nut I haven't tested that. Maybe try with the keyboard controls only and see if that is any better. If you can answer the questions easier then you will get a better U.R.A at the end of the game. If you have children or relatives with children you could ask them to play it. I made the game quite easy. Well easier than my other games so that children could have fun and education with it :D
Thanks! I got it. To me this is not so intuitive. It would be better when the alternatives came, move joystick up and down and press fire to select the answer. I also though that the letters there where the ones to use on the keyboard but it is the in game keys that work for selecting. When my daughter come to me next time we will play it together. I think it might be a little hard for her, even if the game is quite easy. At least the questions will be fun :)
I'm confused. Moving the joystick up and down and pressing fire to select the answer when they appear is how it should work. Also it is the letters next to the answer which you use on the keyboard to choose the correct answer. 'T' for top, 'M' for middle and 'B' for bottom. It's from a famous gameshow in the UK called Strike It Lucky. The only in game key is the 'M'. Left and Right in-game is 'Q' and 'W', these cannot work to select answers as I've assigned the other keys. I know for sure it works fine on keyboard as I tested it out today and it works as it always has. So I'm not sure what's happening with your version. How are you playing it? Emulation or real hardware, and if real hardware which mode of the Spectrum?
Nice game!
Thanks mate