I recreated the game “Nohzdyve” from “Bandersnatch” that is on Netflix. This is pure Brightscript using roScreen.
https://tuckersoft.net/ealing20541/nohzdyve/
https://hackaday.com/2019/01/01/netflix-drops-zx-spectrum-homebrew-title-nohzdyve/
What did you think of “Bandersnatch”?
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Well it works okay up until you die, then (at least for me) it just freezes and does nothing, no matter what button I press. I have to exit via Home then start over.
(By the way, I love the cool “tetris” piece screensaver)
Hey Komag,
Thanks for playing. You are right there is a delay between rounds. I think I put in a button lockout to prevent the game restarting too quickly and it will continue to play if you wait just a little bit. I probably made the delay a little too long and I will fix it the next time I have a chance to work on this. The screensaver object makes more sense if you watched bandersnatch on netflix.
That is cool 
I will check it out tonight!
PS. Welcome to the retro-game-roku dev team
Thanks for the welcome but I have been here for quite a while. I am not that great at publicity and marketing. Any suggestions on where to promote Roku games?
My published games https://my.roku.com/add/CQGXN
and this demo from 2014 I never finished porting (Playable but there are issues.)
https://my.roku.com/add/ADCSD
Oh cool, didn’t realize it was you!
“Komag” wrote:
Oh cool, didn’t realize it was you!
Me neither! I was looking at your Run CMD just recently and realized you used a particular “stock” image I’m using on an unreleased game I’m working on
But I welcomed you as a reference for the fact your did a remake of an existing " retro-game" just like I did with Prince of Persia, Lode Runner, Donkey Kong and Moon Patrol.
BTW I really hope Roku team don’t deprecate and actually improve the Draw2D framework, when all supported devices become OpenGL machines, we could develop so much better games with more resources.
I stumbled across this youtube video showing some of the artwork from RUN CMD:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/characters/warped-caves-103250?aid=1101lPGj&utm_source=aff
Very interesting to see this, made me think “it’s a small world!”. Nice choice in tilesets, very cool looking stuff.
…And I finally got around to trying those old demos
Star Trek - looks like it would have awesome back in 1976 when it was programmed, before my time
Time Quest - Very cool, very nostalgic to me since I was a kid playing King’s Quest, Space Quest, etc
Thanks Komag,
The artwork for “RUN-CMD” is from Luis Zuno who has made some of his art assets freely available. I also support him via patreon with revenue from “RUN-CMD”
I just published a new game https://www.locomalito.com/abbaye_des_morts.php which has a permissible license to port and I have the permission from the original author.(AKA how to do a port correctly) The main complaint I have received is that the controls are too difficult. The game itself is a difficult game and for a game like this with the roku controls being that only on button can be pressed at a time do make it more difficult, it just takes a little getting used to. having played the game so much during development I think the controls are fine, It is possible to complete every screen. It just takes patience and skill. Something which I think is lost on game players to day. People like easy wins and instant gratification. I remember the first time I played supper mario Bros, NES. I was terrible at at playing it with practice I got better at it.
I do wish I had more time to make games and put together a full point and click adventure game.
Ah, that’s very cool, kinda reminds me of Montezuma’s Revenge. It’s almost more of a puzzle game than an action platformer.
I wish to play this game at coming weekend, hopefully will enjoy it.
