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...

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...

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

This little tutorial let's you relive a familiar sight from 1970s and 80s television - the sweeping, red lights, as seen on a certain...

This routine simulates a human-like conversation with the ZX Spectrum. One application of this program might be in a larger games...

Up until now, my < Five Minute BASIC listings have, once run, only contained text and graphics, both of which are visual elements. The...

More than one User Defined Graphic (UDG) to animate? Here's a quick routine to move multiple UDG's using just one FOR...NEXT loop. Note -...