Most games would be pretty one-sided without some form of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). Here, I've cooked up a little Sinclair BASIC...

Sprites can move in different directions across the screen but, sometimes you may want a stationary sprite, as an obstacle or...

Let's start off by looking at how we can give our player character a slippery obstacle to avoid (or use wisely). For this tutorial you...

The Sinclair Spectrum ROM BASIC is great, and has plenty of keywords to build a plethora of programs, including games but - it was...

After two years of on-off tinkering with my indie text adventure engine Vegadvent, I have decided to discontinue development to make way...

Here's a little space fun, making use of the Sinclair BASIC circle command and a FOR...NEXT loop. Restart the ZX Spectrum and enter this...

The lovers, the motorbikes, the haemorroids - who doesn't want to be a programmer? Find out how with this handy guide. Things you will...

It is with tears of joy (and angst) that I humbly, and with only the slightest flicker of bother about my person, accept the award for...

At a guess it's been a year and three months since I started making this game - a 20 level platformer called Cap'n Rescue, for Windows 10...

We've made colourful graphics, beeper sounds, and interacted with the computer, now - it's time for some arcade style control through the...