The Burst Probe will start out as a copy of the standard Parity Probe. The way I have the system designed is that each level controls the launching of any probes to a spawner.

DevLog 20260419 Trying something a bit different - logging the creation of a "new" level for Project8088. I say "new" because the level will not be designed from scratch, but instead will be a modification of the GamingPC level. Setting Up First thing to do was

Part A Introduction When first starting out developing Project8088, I rushed head on into this new world of game development. Even with 30 years of development experience in the web world, building a game is a different beast. But there are many overlapping concepts, because in the end, a game

One of the lessons I have learned in my years of programming is that if you get stuck on a coding error, it's likely because of one of two things: a really dumb syntax issue; or you are not following better/best practice, i.e. square peg, round

One might say that my game development journey started back in the 80s on my TI99/4a. Getting the Extended Basic cartridge for the 16k / 16 color machine was a game changer. The best feature of Extended Basic was the ability to use sprites - moving graphics smoothly on the

...then you have to do things that X people do. If you want to be a star athlete, then you have to do what star athletes do. Same thing with being fit and healthy, or doing a particular job, or having good finances. I've struggled with what I