Ninja Gardening Simulator (Viscious Vermin)

[andrewb]

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Hello!

Around November last year I decided to learn AGD, and started making a Spectrum game based on the Atari 2600 game 'Crackpots'. After the birth of my son in December I've not had a huge amount of free time, hence not posting until now and only just finishing today!

For the purposes of this competition, this is a remake of the MIA game Vicious Vermin which I imagine would have been a Spectrum clone of the Atari 2600 game 'Crackpots'. I'm not very good at drawing bugs or rats, but I can just about manage something resembling people, so in the great Spectrum tradition of inappropriately titled games, I bring you:

Ninja Gardening Simulator - A powerful and accurate depiction of Ninja Botany.

Story
After a long day of intense training, you head to the top of the Dojo. The final duty of the day is to tend to the clan's prized rooftop garden. While watering the flowers, you hear a noise from below. Peering over the edge, reveals that a rival Ninja clan are breaking into the compound and staging an attack!

Sadly, although you locked the doors, the windows are all open (it's a hot day!) Armed only with a huge supply of potted flowers, your new missions is to stop them getting in for as long as possible.

The rival ninjas attack in groups of 12. The longer you can hold them off for, the faster they'll get and the more points you can earn. If 6 manage to enter the Dojo, they'll destroy part of the building and you'll take on that wave again but a slower speed.

The game ends when the rivals have gotten in six times. Good luck Ninja!

Controls

• Keys - Q,W,Space
  
• Kempston
• Sinclair
  

Thanks to:
Allan Turvey & Jonathan Cauldwell - ADGX
David Saphier - Musicizer II, and his Reaper / Autosiril videos
Allan Turvey, Funspot.it (I think this is Luca Bordoni?) & Brendan Alford - Support with ASM
The musicians of the American Civil War - merry tunes!

Attachments:

[andrewb]

Updated to v1.1
- Found and (hopefully) fixed a bug where one of the purple ninjas sometimes gets stuck under a window

[Beyker]

congratulations!! it's a funny game

[andrewb]

Version 1.5 released!

More game modes to add a bit of longevity, and more polish

blueowl0708.itch.io/ninja-gardening-simulator

Changelog

Improvements:
- 4 new game modes, individual high scores maintained for each
- Beeper tunes if the game is loaded on a 48k Spectrum / 128k Spectrum in 48k mode
- Better collision detection when ninjas are close to the ground
- AY music loops tweaked
- Proper ULA+ pallete defined
- Player now has 2 victory dance animations
- Bombs 'explode'

Bug fixes
- Game no longer crashes on ZX Omni if loaded in 128k mode
- Selecting Kempston no longer registers false inputs if a kempston interface isn't connected (now possible to select Sinclair mode on a +2!)
- Enemy speed is now recalculated inbetween rounds, rather than during gameplay after the wave changes
- Fixed an issue where the hit counter would sometimes fail to update during gameplay
- Kempston users can now exit the game over screen by pressing fire (rather than requiring a keyboard press)
- Enemy death animation speed fix