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MPAGD Shoot 'em up Tutorials

Vertical Shmup - Part 1 - Introduction

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...

Vertical Shmup - Part 2 - Setting up the play area

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...

Vertical Shmup - Part 3 - Setting up the Player Spaceship

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 >...

Vertical Shmup - Part 4 - The Player Weapon

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...

Vertical Shmup - Part 5 - A framework for enemies

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...

Vertical Shmup - Part 6 - Killing Aliens

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...

Vertical Shmup - Part 7 - A Gameplay Decision

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,...

Vertical Shmup - Part 8 - A more flexible approach to Aliens

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...

Vertical Shmup - Part 9 - The Aliens Fight Back!

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