That's fabulous. I wrote a 64-screen game in BASIC on my C16, and remember sketching all the screen designs out a page-per-screen in pencil, filling up my entire bedroom floor. UGCs looked good too, but played too slowly to be much fun. A stepping stone... Still have it on cassette tape.

Always loved the box artwork. Great graphics & sound in all their games too.

Try the 20:20:20 rule. Every 20 minutes, focus on an object 20 meters away, for 20 seconds.

Or follow the Pomodoro method, and simply do it every time the tomato 'tings' 🍅

Hi Oviya. I am a brand language consultant with 20+ years' experience. My company develops brand voices; defines verbal identities & creates tone of voice guidelines. And runs linguistic audits within organisations, as a way to steer and shape culture.

Well, that's a good point, Keith. This advice only works for people who can read their own handwriting (and are struggling to write in the first place).

For anyone else, yes, keyboards, dictation, carving runes – whatever works.

The statue of Johnson outside his birthplace in Lichfield has him sitting on a chair – held up by books. I can see the sculptor had probably never tried this: it makes far more sense to stack the books horizontally than to stand them vertically, as they're shown here.

Commando! Great game, but tough.

Don’t get me started on true quotes versus primes.

Hello Jack, do you have a link you could share to the full report by any chance?

Very cool, I like it.

So clever to just swap the room colour as a way of making it seem like a completely new location. Saves a ton of memory. Not quite sure why the sprites are so flickery though?

I had (still have!) a Commodore 64. But there's something about the vivid colours on a Spectrum I always liked. Pity it didn't have sprites though 😀

More adventure games, please 😀

Possibly the best arcade game ever, when played with friends on the full-size machine.

@michaelbierut.bsky.social and the inspiration behind our corporate logo at True & Good:

That's me, @susiedent.bsky.social! Currently enjoying Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides – with our “illustrious friend”.