I agree. BASIC can do some very decent or quite fun stuff if coded properly. Soemtimes it's not the coding optimization that helps but shortcuts used to make something run faster than people expected. (for example it's possible to move a 16x16 sprite around at 2 FPS in pure BASIC if you know how but it will look like Atari material, and the same trick can be used to move a 100x100 square around .

After exactly 31 days (or a month), breaking my leg, and working hard with my developers/testers, I am proud to present Source Seekers v1.0, released to the public!
Feedback on this game is very much appreciated! The download link is in the original post.

That was a quick 3 days.

It wasn't 3 days

(really, all I was doing was making the levels )

But yeah, glad to help. It's been a while since I actually last tried to get involved in a group coding effort in BASIC. I was part of two groups, which I had named "Edge of the Universe Software" and "Games of The Future". We threw out an idea called "Hopeless" (where you're apparently an escaped mental patient or something ), but I was the only one who actually gave out games.

I'll give this a try when I have a chance.

Thanks DJ. I should probably mention that the entire game is 10717 bytes. I'll put that on the OP, too.

Ok I just tried this and it's not bad so far, although it was a bit confusing at times. It might be good to include instructions on how to do stuff, since there were stuff like the sword only hitting right. Also I can't beat the first boss.

Yeah that one. His projectiles are incredibly hard to avoid and since there's no leveling up in the game nor healing items (at least for now) I die in 2-3 hits

I just died on level 7 (with the T that shoots periods) and when i got sent two rooms back (LV.B? Just before the Z-shooting P) where you have to walk towards the A, the screen wasn't cleared and the T and two dots were still there. Not a big deal, just thought you might want to know. Otherwise it's really nice, though i have to say that the spaced text is a bit odd It might look better centered.  You can also hit the B's with your sword and it'll disappear (or at least in LV.7), at first i was afraid that i'd destroyed it

Another thing you can do is quit on LV.8 and pick up a lot of 1-ups. I guess the max is 10. Later when you die it looks like you've got 90, 80, 70, etc.

And like DJ, the first boss was hard. I guess you've got to just keep moving, but it's hard to see their bullets.

I think i just beat it, was the last level the one with the two M's? They didn't move or anything, so i'm not sure, but it just said i beat the game. It was fun, though a bit confusing at times. Nice job