Micro Shmup Game Now Released For Browser Play
This is the second game I have made and released: 2026 January Retro Shmup
I mean the second game for THIS new itch.io account - it's probably my 200th+ game project over the decades. 😅
That's part of why I wanted to create a new anonymous itch account so I could then fill it up with games over the coming months and years.
Just to have it there I guess. 😀
Anyway...
This game took a week from start to release tonight... 16.5 hours of actual time spent on it.
The goal here was to create a micro game... something that would be reasonably right at home on one of the very early gaming consoles such as the Odyssey 2 or Intellivision.
The resolution is 160x96 and the number of colors is limited... I think about 8 total. Definitely no more than 12.
Again, I used the FREE version of SpiderBasic to create this and that is perfect for scope because the free version has a limit of a little less than 800 lines of code.
It was very close to filling up all that space. I managed to add a simple title screen.
Overall, I am very happy with the way this turned out.
It was another fun game development project and I enjoy playing the game too. 😀