I've made a space shooter! Or at least a demo of a space shooter. (which perhaps foolishly implies it'll ever go beyond this. ) Feast your eyes:

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I've been incredibly fortunate to have been on a sabbatical over the past few months to have a proper stab at making a game, and this thing is the result. I reckon I'll be heading back into employment soon though, so will finish it off when I get a moment.

Once I've finally conquered the cross-platform mountain, I'll put a demo up for download.

Yep, C and Allegro - albeit with some stuff that compiles to C.

Yeah, it's fixed at 384x216. I was aiming for something like the olskool 320x200, but that scales up in 16:9 without letterboxing.

(incidentally, it's actually running at 1920x1080 in the screenshots)

Most of them are pretty tiny, eg. the player's ship is 20x20. It's all drawn to a buffer then scaled up without nice interpolation, so yeah, you'll never get anything 'inbetween pixels'.