The Screen Editor lets you create and update the screens that will form the levels and map of your game. When we first create a game with...

The Block editor is where you will create the 8px by 8px blocks that we will use to design the screens of our game

From the Editor menu, select Sprites OK, so all sprites in MPAGD are 16 x 16 squares. In the top right of the editor are two colour...

I thought it might be useful to create an entire MPAGD game from scratch and blog about it. I doubt we'll end up with anything...

We'll jazz up the stock 'HORIZONTAL PATROL' script and make it possible to stun the enemy if we jump on its head

Let's add a cannon that fires bouncy cannonballs...because we can.

Lets give the player a bonus item for defeating an enemy and flash a banner on screen when the bonus is collected

Wow! The first full review of our new game: 24 Hour Parsley People is in, scoring 10/10 at Planeta Sinclair: Here's what they had to say...

Adding switches into your games opens up a bunch of new possibilities, maybe they open doors, activate a device. or spawn a nasty.

Here's a really simple way to add a pattern to the appearance/disappearance of a static nasty...without making it random. We'll be using...

Out of the box, MPAGD includes a script for a vertical moving platform (Lifts/Elevators). It's fairly basic and wasn't what I was...

...well I couldn't think of a better name for them. But these are hazards that fall from the ceiling just as the player is about to walk...

How to add smooth, horizontal moving platforms to your MPAGD games.

I've been busy :)

a duffer's guide to retro game development, for middle aged muppets, who still love their Speccy* (*other 8bit computers are available)

Delighted to announce Cocoa and the Time Machine was named Game of the Month for June 2020

Now you can take your own Time Machine back to the 1980's - because Minilop & BitmapSoft have joined forces to bring you Cocoa - on Tape!

Cocoa 128K edition has landed, now with in game music

"A rabbit stuck in the past, a time machine out of fuel, and a castle full of danger. "

Two of the things that some players struggle with are getting the sword artefact, and finding the crabmeat. Here's a short video that will s