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#OneTagPerWeek ... http://sylvainhb.blogspot.com/search/label/apple%20assault has the devlog of my first "real" #homebrew game on the #nintendoDS: Apple Assault, that was submitted to the 2010 NeoFlash coding competition
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Jun 17, 2024 at 3:23pmWeb
Show threadPypeBrosJun 17, 2024
The gameplay was inspired by early arcade games like #BubbleBobble: small screens, waves of ennemies, you've got to dispatch them all to clear the level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cMUz8axNA
Apple Assault (Walkthrough)

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Show threadPypeBrosJun 18, 2024
And I was lucky enough to have a friend acting as #gameplay consulting fellow, making key suggestions like "you could play back arena 1 with increased speed, like in #Pacman" or "you could have a counter limiting how many apples there are in the arena at any time": http://sylvainhb.blogspot.com/2012/06/pieks-counter.html
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Show threadPypeBrosJun 19, 2024
The development of the game started in March 2010, based on a not-quite-dream featuring a tune from my brother, that fleshed the idea of an engine demonstrator like that I had seen for flashpunk.
http://sylvainhb.blogspot.com/2010/03/apple-assault.html
Apple Assault

Building our dream games from the nineties on NDS. From bits to gameplay.

Show threadPypeBrosJun 22, 2024
and that "one tag per week" revisit of the blog is also the opportunity to give some posts proper translation, like http://sylvainhb.blogspot.com/2010/08/apple-hit-combo.html just got. One last to go for Apple Assault...
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Building our dream games from the nineties on NDS. From bits to gameplay.

Show threadPypeBrosJun 22, 2024
(while the game was published for the Neo Compo in August 2010, it still got #gamedesign updates 'til 2012 while I was working on the engine for the next game)
http://sylvainhb.blogspot.com/2012/01/unclumpm.html
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Building our dream games from the nineties on NDS. From bits to gameplay.