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Thanks. I think the initial learning curve is tricky but it's a fun little game when you get used to it. You play games so much during development it becomes tricky to judge how difficult others will find it.

Whatever happened to the results for this?

OK then. Yeah this is finished and is downloadable here. I released it as a shorter game and spoke of it as mission one and waited to see what the reception was like. I intended to expand it into a much larger game with two more missions. I did start the next one but struggled with inspiration for level designs so shelved it.

If you mean mission 2 for the C64 then no sorry. Obviously the original mission 1 is available here and I’m working on an extended Spectrum Next version.

Lovely, how could I mind being the the best homebrew games list? ;) Thanks.

I see Millie & Molly is in there as well.

Well done. Patience is a virtue. And thanks for making the videos, it looks harder than I remember!

Fair enough, good luck. You may find Set Five easier, I won't spoiler the new feature which come in on those levels.

Hi, glad you're enjoying the game. It's so long since I coded it I've forgotten how to complete the levels sorry. Rest assured every level is possible though. I think you can also move onto Set Five if you've completed 80% of Set Four if you'd like a break from that puzzle.

Cheers, I'm glad you're both enjoying it. It's very difficulty to make money with a smartphone version, I've tried with my more popular game Millie & Molly however the effort/reward balance didn't really work. I'd suggest you give that a play as you enjoyed this though.

Congratulations Monte. Looks really good, looking forward to trying it later.

Thank you, really glad you enjoyed it.

Excellent time, that’s the fastest I’ve seen. Congrats. 

Cheers for the kind words. Thrust is my favourite ever C64 game. Whilst the physics in this are nowhere near as complicated as that game I find the precision of control required very satisfying.

I haven't managed that myself to be fair. My times are on this page though, 10:56 for Zone 1 but there are better gamers than me out there.

It's not bad, now you've got to start taking some risks. I was hoping somebody would get under 10 seconds on that zone but I've not seen it yet.

Nurikabe isn't for everybody but I love these kinds of puzzles.

Cheers. Some players do seem to find the game tricky. I expected people to be able to get around but perhaps not with quick times.

Actually it plays at 50fps on YouTube itself, just not in the preview window on here.

Nice video, looks like you could be challenging my times soon enough. You need to be a bit braver keeping the momentum going. The video looks to be 25fps, I assume the game runs at the correct 50fps on a MISTER?

Ha, that's excellent. Thanks for showcasing the game.

Well tell your friend it's a nice video they've made explaining the game ;)

Thanks. That's a nice video you've made explaining the game.

Congratulations!

How did you onlock the levels on the real C64 then? Did you make a copy of your .d64 file?

Nice. Did you replay all the levels on the real device? Your previous screenshots were from Vice I think.

Thanks for playing, looks like you enjoyed it.

I think you’re definitely going to complete the game. It doesn’t necessarily get harder later on, just new puzzles with a different mechanic.

Thanks for playing, I’m glad you’re enjoying it.

I can probably sort a POKE out for you.

Nice video, thanks for playing.

Thanks, I'll check out the video later.

I don't think so sorry, it's been so long since I worked on this I think I've forgotten how to make a level pack!

Hi,

If it's already in your itch.io library I'm sure you could get it from there.

No, that was last worked on 30 odd years ago!

A couple of years ago. Bitmapsift did tape and disk versions and Beaver of the Black River did a cartridge version. Both were lovely packages.

Thank you, that's very kind of you to say. Saul Cross' amazing sound and graphics really helped as well.

Hi. Yes I rewrote the game in Unity so I could publish smartphone versions. Thalamus then got in touch and made the Switch version from that code.

Thank you!

Thanks you, I like to hear when people enjoy the stuff I do.

Thanks for these kind words.

I did consider the multiple square control but as you suggest it would take the code over the file limit. Those are the sort of things which can be added when polishing a title but the 4k comp often limits that kind of work. Which is why I entered it really, a big problem with starting projects is feature creep which means you add more and more stuff and never actually finish the game.

As for Grid Pix DLC I'll speak to James and see if we can release it.