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I've always been fond of Boulderdash games, going back to Rocman on the C16 when I was a kid, and a bit later the 2-player bedlam of Sullduggery on the ST.

I played this on my Jupiter Ace Emulator and found it amazing how much you've pushed the Ace to do - very smooth and fun. Wish I could say the same for my skills... I'll go back and complete level 3 at some point, I got so close and then did something stupid!

Looks great - your graphical style is incredibly well suited to this type of game!

Fixed - played it a bit more and have to say, this is really addictive! 

Must be an issue with my emulator then - will look into it, thanks.

BTW does it have audio? Not sure if the lack of it is my emulator's fault.

Really nice game - I've been running it in the Jupiter Ace Emulator I've built (never owned one - had a ZX81 all those years ago - but always been a bit fascinated by this computer.)

My emulator hasn't been tested against many games yet but this is one of the first ones that successfully loaded and ran the TAP :-)

If anyone wants to give the emulator a go, here's the link:

https://jupiteraceemulator.com/emulator

😊

Congrats on the release mate!!

Sorted now, thanks to your help :-)

Great, many thanks. (At least I feel vindicated being cautious!!)

I suspect it has something to do with the load / save path of the level data. I was hoping that since it uses standard AGS pathname strings, that wouldn't be an issue... but looks like it is. Will see if I can work out a solution.

Thanks again!

Thanks! Was trying to create some sort of pseudo-3D effect using sprite scaling. I think it kinda worked.

This looks fantastic - thanks for pointing it out!

Congratulations on your win!

Actually I was really hoping your game would win, because I feel it deserved it more than mine. :-)

Thank you for making this pack! I've used your asteroids in my little game: 

https://captaind.itch.io/captain-disaster-in-37201

Thanks mate!

Yep seems that way :D

Thank you :)

Thanks mate!

Congrats on the AGS Award nominations! :-)

Congrats on the AGS Award nominations! :-)

Love it!

Probably my favourite:

"A platformer where you play as a chubby Batman in a mansion and must assign parking tickets"

Might even have to make it one day... sans the copyrighted Batman of course!

Haha this is brilliant! I started off with a clear strategy but by level 4 was just clicking crazily trying to keep SOMETHING on the screen. Really fun!

I used this music set (and one of the fantasy ones) for my Snake game:

https://captaind.itch.io/agsnake-the-last-bite

These tunes vibe so well with the retro feel I was aiming for with these games. Thanks so much!

Yes, my mind has been trying to convince me to work on that instead of other stuff for a while now!

Plan for update:

- Quit option 

- Pause function

- Visible screen edge

Yeah I'll add that to my quick list of updates to make fo the game (quit option... oops!" - I can put a visible edge around the screen, it's not a problem I've run into in my own testing.

:-D

Yeah, there are power-downs as well as power-ups... a snake's gotta be careful!

Maybe you were really unfortunate with the randomly generated effects and kept getting red pills?!?!?!

I had hoped that by including options to slow things down or speed them up, players should be able to reach a good balance no matter how powerful or ancient their hardware is.

Thanks so much for the comment! Snake is one of those classic game concepts that's entirely pure and just works in every generation / iteration. Glad you're enjoying it :-)

Thanks so much for these tracks; I've used most of them in this game: https://captaind.itch.io/flow-problem :-)

Thank you! Much appreciated.

Could someone please contact me regarding ticket 254831? I logged it 3 weeks ago and asked for an update 1 week ago, I just want to be sure it hasn't got lost in the system somewhere. (I did receive the confirmation email that it had been received.) 

Many thanks!

Oops! Thanks so much. Must have had brain-freeze...

I sent an email to support@itch.com regarding a payout query, it's failing to deliver - is there a known issue with the mailbox? Happy to just send a new email if you think it's a one-off occurrence.

Many thanks.

Nice little game. Fast is quite brutal (I really wish I could have changed the nets with keys 1-3, I feel that would have made it more doable) - Slow was perhaps a tiny bit too easy, I scored 5,571 before my hand got tired :-)

Always nice to see AGS used for a different style of game.

Thanks for playing, my friend! :-)

This is a brilliant R-Type style shooter with high production qualities, a stomping soundtrack and an easy mode that even I am half-decent at! :-D Great job.

Firstly, this is my review posted on the AGS Games page:

"This is one of the best short games made with AGS that I've ever played. Everything is at least good - the graphics and music are very nice, the humour often hits the mark, but the real joy is in the puzzles - they are absolutely excellent. I especially loved the hamster maze puzzle, that was really clever.

Thoroughly recommended - even more so if you liked Maniac Mansion / DotT".

Congratulations on a superb game that shows amazing development of your skills since Day of the Sandwich (which I also enjoyed).

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Just a couple of little bugs - in the lab (right-most room) the walkable areas need trimming, as you can walk partway up the walls.

Also a couple of the hints don't trigger properly (or the issue may be the code that decides when to display the tick) - from memory I think "fill bucket with water" and "power on computer" were affected by this.

On a personal level, I found having to keep reselecting the inventory slightly annoying, but that maybe just me :-)

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Just want to end this comment by saying a massive WELL DONE - you've created a really memorable game here.

This is a really lovely little game! Despite the minimalist design in many aspects, it really drew my into the world and felt like a little slice of a richly detailed game world. The few animations that there were really added to the game, and the music was superbly chosen. Not many puzzles, but still a bit of work for the old grey cells wrapped up in a genuinely intriguing narrative experience.. Would love to see more adventures by our failed but somehow successful apprentice mage!

So do I! Because everything is worked out per pixel and the get / set pixel commands are quite slow, I haven't found a way to optimise it better. May ask someone smarter than me to try :-)