Here's a full list of the Global Variables used by Shmupkit, I've tried to leave as many as possible free for you own use in your games....

A simple GAME OVER message, similar to the GET READY one in the Restart Screen Event: EVENT LOSTGAME AT 10 12 REPEAT 10 READ A CHR A...

What happens when a player is killed?, we decrement their lives and update the lives counter on screen EVENT KILLPLAYER SUBTRACT 1 FROM...

This event runs whenever the game first starts or restarts after the player is killed. The important thing here is that we need to reset...

The L variable is used to keep track and progress the Levels/Attack Waves of the game, after the player successfully survives a Level it...

This is pretty standard MPAGD intro menu, but I've added the redefine keys commands, always let your player redefine their keys! (note...

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I've tried to keep the main loop as simple as possible, I've added a starfield travelling downward using the STAR DOWN command. Also, I...

The important thing here is that we include 'ADD 1 TO S' so that every sprite that gets initialised is added to the Sprite Counter (S) -...

A couple of people have asked for some tutorials on creating a Vertical Shoot-em up with MPAGD, something along the lines of Imagine's...

I'm going to use Imagine's classic Arcadia as the basis for the game. I remember Arcadia being the first Spectrum game I saw, I was a...

Now that we have the play area set up, let's create the player spaceship and work on the code for controlling it. MENU: EDITOR >...

So far we have an spaceship that the player can control, now we are going to give him a weapon he can fire. First, we need to consider...

To start with, I'm going to create an Alien Ship sprite then write some code for its movement. In the first attack wave I want a stream...

The basic game mechanics have started to take shape so now we'll tackle killing the aliens, first, we'll create a new Sprite for enemy...

I started this series as a bit of nostalgic homage to Imagine's Arcadia, a game as a 12 year Old back in 1982 I loved. If you recall,...

So far, we have two waves of aliens, and they're pretty easy to defeat, but I can see a problem with the way we wrote it. In the game I...

This is really starting to come together, we have an easily extensible framework for creating alien movement patterns, but they are a bit...

Now that we've got most of the basics of the game working, let's take a break and tidy up the presentation of the game a bit. First let's...

At the moment, our Alien Sprite only has one frame, and therefore is always pointing in the same direction no matter which way it is...