Now you can try level 1 of my new game I started work on yesterday. Download the game at the official Ugly, Uppity Umpires webpage. I fixed some bugs and changed some sprites, including the  underwear sprite. They now look like this:

I've been having horrible problems with my mouse lately. It left clicks like Hell, sometimes dragging stuff I didn't even click on around. I tried to put this image in this blog. It ended up putting all the files in my folder in here, so I had to delete them all.

But I think the underwear looks more recognizable as underwear. I'm wondering whether I should keep track of lives as well. I want the player to have infinite lives so they can keep trying. I always thought the idea of lives in games like Mario was dumb if there's infinite continues. Why bother?

Also, I bet this would be tons easier to program if the squares were 8 x 8 instead of 16 x 16, but then the graphics would be really tiny. But then I could have larger levels. I wonder if that is a good tradeoff.

So if I make one level per day, by year's end I should have around 60. And if I make this a 128k cartridge, I should be able to fit the info for the 60 levels in. The only problem I see is bankswitching while the game is going.