Space Balls
A downloadable game
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Controls
Q – Up
A – Down
N – Left
M – Right
SPACE – Change ship colour
Gameplay
Pilot your ship through a field of bouncing space balls.
Avoid balls of different colours — collision is fatal!
If your ship matches a ball’s colour, it’s safe to pass through.
Quick reactions are required.
My highest score was 232
Update: version 1.1 - Kempston Controls added; game expanded to six balls.
| Status | Released |
| Author | Michael Wadlow |
| Genre | Action |
| Tags | 128k, 48k, 8-Bit, ZX Spectrum |
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spaceballs.tzx 12 kB
spaceballs1_1.tzx 13 kB

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Great fun!
Is this your first machine code game? If so how did you take the step from MPAGD to ASM?
Small bug, though it's kind of cute: the score should be stored as a 16bit number as it overclocks at 255 ÷)
Ahhhh good spot - user testing was limited! I actually coded the game in boriel basic. I've written a few c64 games in machine code, but yet to take that step on the speccy.
I got 105 on this. I could've streamed it live at the time of recording, like Instant Video Cassettes in the similarly-named film - but since that was around 2am, everyone sensible would be in bed. So, I scheduled it for this morning :D
Music after game over - toooooo loooooong)
Time to contemplate? :)
I think is a good job! Interesting and addictive!
Thank you :)