Lets Make a Retro Game – Episode 7 – Displaying our Background

This is the 7th video in my series, where I am going to work through the steps required to make a home brew game for a retro 8-bit console or computer system.

In each episode I will work through various topics, such as tools, methods and design.

All of the information referenced in each episode will have an associated article on my web site.

In this episode we are going to start making our game “Mega Blast”, so to get things started we are going to go through:
• Initialising our graphics
• Displaying the graphics on both our title screen and then the main screen of the game

I have included the complete code for this section, so you can follow through the various steps without having to worry about typing in code.

The supplied code has two folders:
Start – where we start in this episode and
End – the final code and a copy of the ROM file.

The corresponding article with all download links and more detail on what is covered in this episode is available on my website here:
http://www.electricadventures.net/ViewArticle.aspx?Id=130

Next episode we will be going back to looking at our game and get some objects moving on the screen in response to input from the controls.

See general updates on both my web site:
http://www.electricadventures.net
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I also do live game plays, usually high score practices on Twitch here:
http://www.twitch.tv/electricadventures