Here's the beta release of Builder! I know everyone has been extraordinarily eager to get advance copies even though I haven't really announced that it even exists before now Run it with the Asm( tag from the home screen.

Note: I'm just looking for feedback. Builder was not designed to be a full fledged game, hence the bad graphics and and gameplay. It's a test bed for routines I'm planning on using in a couple of other projects that ARE being designed for interesting gameplay. So, any optimizations anyone would recommend for the overly commented source would be much appreciated. At one point I actually had the game under 2kb, but the scoring system put it to where it is now.

EDIT: How do you insert screenshots into posts?

The basic goal is to last as long as possible before your life bar runs out. You start out with 96 Life. Dropping a block (2nd) reduces your life by one while letting a ship past reduces your life by ten. To prevent you from simply holding the 2nd button down and automatically getting the highest possible score, the "crane" is shifted a random number of places to the left or right every time you press the drop button. Your final score is [conveniently] the number of cycles the code went through before you lost. Pressing Clear at any time exits the game.

Here's a quick screenshot from wabbitemu. The actual game runs faster than what is shown.

Pressing 2nd while a ship is onscreen makes the crane move a bit (or quite a lot if you hold the button) without dropping a block. I don't know if that's intentional or not, but I find it a bit odd. Other than that, nice game

edit: typo

Pressing 2nd while a ship is onscreen makes the crane move a bit (or quite a lot if you hold the button) without dropping a block. I don't know if that's intentional or not, but I find it a bit odd. Other than that, nice game

edit: typo

As DJ said, it's intentional. The movement routine runs whenever the 2nd button is pressed without consideration of whether or not a block is dropping. Do you think it should run only when a block is dropped, though? That's a really easy thing to change.


EDIT: Rather than create a new thread, I'm simply going to post the screenshot for SpritEdit here:

Here's the modified source and Assembly.

Thanks. Oh, and by the way, a perfect score is approximately 2190.

That's a unique game, and very cool.  I'd recommend putting a ClrHome at the end of the game.   Nice job!

Here's a quick screenshot from wabbitemu. The actual game runs faster than what is shown.

To speed it up, you can go under Options and change the frame rate to something lower. That way, it wouldn't have problems in many browsers.