Shark Byte Engineering games disk uploaded to Asimov

[Hot Rod <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com>]

Greetings,

I gathered a handful of games I wrote under the "Shark Byte Engineering" tag, and uploaded them to Asimov.  Someday I might create a web page with more info and source code and such, but for now, I thought I'd just park them out there.  I do still have the source code and graphics files for each.

"Sabotage II" was a result of goofing around with a particular graphics concept (which we used on the crack screen of Dallas Quest), and pondering what else to do with it.  This is from August 1985.

"Acey Deucy" is a variation of backgammon, where rolling a 1 and 2 allows to you choose your doubles and keep rolling.  It's a faster variation of regular backgammon.  The end game is a bit different in that you need exact numbers to bear off.  This is circa 1986.  I wasn't ever really happy with the RNG, but so be it.  It does still have a secret way to roll whatever number pair you like though.  :)

"Puzzler" is a 15-tile game.  I can't recall why I choose to write it, maybe to play around with "light bar" concepts or something.  It's from 1987.

"One World" is a shoot'em up. This is from August 1986.  (It later got retooled slightly and published by Keypunch software as 'Viper Patrol').

"Splat!" is what I just renamed "Parachutist", since "Splat!" is what I had originally intended to call it (September 1986).  For fun, I dug out Jim Nitchals' shape editor and modified the graphics a bit in this version.  So it's new!  :)


'Viper Patrol' and 'Rod's Revenge' are already up on Asimov, as is 'Alf', so I think this disk image completes the games I finished.  I have more stuff that didn't get finished.  "Rod's Revenge" was the last thing I did before boxing it all up for good.

]HR