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Homebrew game for C64 part 7 - revival

R evival of the project, that is. It's not a resurrection-based game. Following a hiatus due to realising that my original concept was rubbish, I had a different idea. It's nothing particularly original; sideways scrolling, and the sheep following one another like a snake. There will be things to collect, and things to avoid. Avoiding the enemies will be more difficult, the more sheep are following the one you're controlling. The idea is that you start with one, and accumulate friends as you go along.  They may be dispatched by enemies, and there will be a maximum of four because of the way I've used two sprites to get hi-res with multicolour effect. There are no collectibles or enemies yet, but here's the basic action, which I'm really happy with. The sound you hear on the video is being played by a breadbin 64. It's my most recent tune for this game. The video is captured from VICE It was my first go with the 64's scrolling capability. I