-=stupid games news=- issue 1 / summer 2006

- My first game I ever made for the Atari 2600 (that I ever cared about, anyway) is in the Minigame Compo ‘06. Zyx (pronounced “Zicks”) is an alien face that eats bananas. At first, I wanted Zyx to be a yard gnome, but that would be hard to pull off given an 8x8 sprite to work with, so he became a simple alien smiley face from the planet Plim. Why bananas,

though? Cuz I felt like it. This final version has a health meter that shows how many of your four lives you have left, cuz after all, Plimians have 4 lives.

- Continuing Nintendo’s “non-game” idea, Stupid Games made Bubba. It’s a prototype-like program where you watch Bubba getting chased by an alien. It’s like the intro of Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES…and that’s it. But you gotta admit, it’s great animation for Batari Basic!

- It's never too early thinking about next year's Minigame Compo, and I'm working on a new top-secret game to enter into it. It's not Zyx 2, although I'll probably finish Zyx 2 once my 2007 Minigame has been entered.

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tomorrow's blog will have more interesting stuff. I promise.