Suppose in your game you want to give the player a set amount of time to complete each screen. And then, perhaps, give them a bonus...

If you're designing a 2D side-on game, like a platformer, chances are your player will need to JUMP. Which is easily added by binding a...

How to make your game control keys redefinable

Using TYPE SWITCHING to change the player type and sprite to create a nice death animation before KILLing the player

Using PLOT to create a meter / bar

Changing the size of the play area window.

Introduces BEEP, CRASH, DELAY, AIRBORNE , timers and temporary variables

So far, we've learnt how to get information onto the screen using commands such as PRINT "" and DISPLAY plus some special ones like...

In our last lesson, we looked at working with the player SCORE, BONUS and DISPLAYing it on the screen, also using AT and PRINT to also...

Our game is starting to take shape, now is probably a good time to sort out the mess that is currently the score bar at the top of the...

40 years on, the thirteen year old me finally achieved his dream...a Crash Smash! There've been several reviews of The Swarm is Coming, her

Adding DEADLYBLOCKS and creating sliding ice blocks with CUSTOMBLOCKS

A look at FODDERBLOCKS and the DIG command

Adding OBJECTs to your game that the player can collect and interact with

Covers commands including SPAWN, REPEAT, OTHER, working with COLLISION, DIRECTION as well as using timings...oh and farts, lots of farts.

In which we will give the game an objective and learn about DATA, READ & REPEAT

Let's add a loading screen to a game you've exported as a TAP file in MPAGD

In which we'll let the player choose how difficult they want the game to be, then use this for altering game speed, mechanics and more...

In which we use MPAGDs DATA, READ, COLOUR and CHR commands to make a great looking HUD for our games...super memory efficiently!

In which we write a seaside arcade grabbing machine mechanic... you know....for kids