I've just finished my first ever Commodore 64 game - "Spike C64 Dislike". It's an adaption of the game Spike Dislike for iOS and PC

The game can be downloaded here.

Short cut and paste on how to play the game from the readme:

How to play:
Use a joystick in port #2.
Pressing any direction or the firebutton moves the player to the right. Avoid the spikes coming towards you. The interesting thing about the game is the scoring system. Each time you pass a spike your combo-bar will fill up, if you keep passing spikes without letting the combo-bar run out you will get more points for each spike. Also, if you keep the button pressed while passing multiple spikes, a multiplier builds up (to max 4 times the points) which makes an aggressive playing style really rewarding, but also dangerous.

Please tell me what you think of the game.
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Appears to be a dead link.

(finally got through after about ten tries)

Went ahead and posted on CSDb ...
http://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=109539

Looks pretty good, but I'm not familiar with the original game. Will have to give it a go a few times.

The second link you posted worked fine, the original link was simply dying but eventually got through.

I really like this game! thanks! Great music too
best regards,
- dink

Well done, fx. 19 posts until released game. That's a nice achievement.

Very nice for a first c64 game. Makes me confident that you know what your doing with your bigger game project.

Your port is better than the iOS version. Looking forward to your other projects
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Version with Hi-Saver and Spacebar as optional trigger can be found here:

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=109559

I read how the original creator of the game hasn't tried the c64 version yet - boy is he in for a surprise when he finally gets around to it, as the c64 version beats the absolute sh*t out of the original!

Theres also a Nintendo DS version, for those of you who play DS homebrew.

Just played it, not bad at all. I think the collision detection should be as evil as the original, it feels a little too easy to me.

None of the other versions use pixel collision either, no real reason to, as both the ball and the spikes are round(ish). But its your game, so cangrats, I'm a big fan of spike, it should be ported to as many other platforms as possible.

Great game.

This game is absolutely fantastic! I love it!

Mind if I put this on a games collection disk and hand it out to people for free? I'm assuming you won't mind, since you put it up here for free. I'm using the RPL crack because that one has the high score and manual features, plus it's 4 blocks smaller than the original.
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Glad you like it

Go right ahead!
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Just for fun I decided to start up the trained version and hold down the space bar in warp mode, let it go forever, racking up mad points. My initial theory is that some games, like Tetris for the NES, start glitching out when you wrap the score. I didn't come close to this but I did manage to catch one minor glitch.


one of the spikes is up way beyond the bounce limit. Just thought I'd share.

EDIT - It seems the problem gets worse as I progress.


ONE LAST EDIT

Here's the final evolution of the glitch - emptiness. It would seem that the spikes are so far above and below the playfield that they are completely off screen, with a visible spike every minute or so of holding down the space bar in normal mode.





So there you have it. Although completely improbable that someone would go through the trouble of getting this kind of score in normal mode, the glitch is there nonetheless.
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Thanks for the info! I think I added code to "wrap around" when you passed the 4096 spikes that are stored as a "level", but apparently my code didn't work (or I forgot to add it altogether) and I was never bothered to actually test it

But there will probably be an updated version in the future, I have a few ideas, and I'll make sure to fix this then
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It's still an awesome game.
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