Shovel Duck II : Dig Duck!

Devlog

• Bonus game 2 delayed
  September 26, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #Shovel Duck, #Updates, #Bonus Games, #Delays, #zx Spectrum

  There's been a bit of radio silence from me for a couple of months. There have just been a few things going on (outside of writing games) that has taken up a lot of my time. Bonus Game 2 is still comi... Continue reading

  
• Shovel Duck II : Bonus Game 2 - Coming soon.
  August 01, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #Shovel Duck, #Retro, #ZX Spectrum, #8-bit, #RPG

  Just sharing a small work-in-progress animation of Shovel Duck, Bonus Game II : Duck Playing Game. Progress on this has been delayed by England being a bit too warm to do much other than eat ice cream... Continue reading

  
• Bonus Game 2 is in progress : Teaser
  July 10, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #ZX Spectrum, #8-bit, #Retro, #Shovel Duck

  Having taken a week off from development (after getting Bonus Game 3 "out the door") I've caught one of those cold / flu things going around, had a bit of a think, and re-started development on Shovel... Continue reading

  
• 2024-06-21: Shovel Duck II : Bonus Game 3 : A Mouseive Panic - some more bugfixes
  June 27, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #ZX Spectrum, #bugfix, #8-bit, #retro, #platformer

  Hopefully this is the last of the bugs sorted out. Thank you to XoRRoX for a lot of help and assistance in identifying the bug that was making the top couple of lines have invisible sprites. The game... Continue reading

  
• 2024-06-21: Shovel Duck II : Bonus Game 3 : A Mouseive Panic - bugfixes
  June 21, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #zx spectrum, #8-bit, #retro, #bugfixing, #space panic

  Let's try that again... after releasing Shovel Duck II Shovel Mouse One : A Mouseive Panic last week I became aware of a couple of bugs. Some of them minor. Some of them major. When I test my games I... Continue reading

  
• 2024-06-14: Shovel Duck II : Bonus Game 3 : A Mousive Panic Released!
  June 14, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #ZX Spectrum, #8-Bit, #Retro, #Platformer, #Panic, #Release

  "Hi Bill," says Money. "I see you've cleared out all of the worms that escaped the mine." "I have indeed," replies Bill, "It was tough, inexplicably bouncy work, but I managed it." "But what about all... Continue reading

  
• 2024-06-06 - Bonus Game 3 POC
  June 06, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #Retro, #ZX-Spectrum, #48K, #8-bit, #Work in progress

  Well, I knew this would happen. We're going to have a Travelling Willbury's situation with bonus game one, bonus game three... and no bonus game two (yet). After the POC at the weekend I've swapped in... Continue reading

  
• 2024-06-02 - Bonus Game 3 POC
  June 03, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #ZX Spectrum, #Space Panic, #8-bit, #Retro, #POC, #Proof of Concept, #in development, #Platforms and ladders

  Taking a little break from Bonus Game 2 development to knock up a quick POC of bonus game 3; ignore the graphics, but this will be a full on Space Panic style game featuring Money Mouse and the Skulls... Continue reading

  
• 2024-05-28 : Bonus Game One: Shovel Duck II: A Minor Panic - RELEASED
  May 28, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #zx spectrum, #noon30 shovel duck, #shovel duck 2, #retro, #8-bit, #48K, #platform, #arcade

  Following on from Bill's adventures in Shovel Duck II: Dig Duck, we have a little side quest story game thing. The worms have left the mine and are ravaging the countryside. But, they are vulnerable t... Continue reading

  
• 2025-05 In development: Shovel Duck II: A Minor Panic BONUS GAME1
  May 19, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #ZX Spectrum, #8-bit, #Platformer, #Retro, #Shovel Duck

  First I have to thank everyone who have purchased and downloaded "Shovel Duck II: Dig Duck!" I've seen a few videos popping up on youTube; thank you for doing that and for giving my game a go. After d... Continue reading

  
• 2024-05-12 - Initial release
  May 12, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #ZX Spectrum, #release, #8-bit, #Shovel Duck II, #platformer, #Retro, #Arcade adventure

  After a week of playtesting, chopping and changing things; reducing the amount of text (who knew wordy clues took so much memory?) adding an attract mode screen (no text unfortunately - but there are... Continue reading

  
• 2024-05-06 Bank Holiday Weekend Update
  May 06, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #ZX Spectrum, #Retro, #8-bit, #progress update, #MPAGD

  It has been an interesting week. It started with the game getting dangerously close to that maximum memory limit (which it turn saw me taking the semi-colon to the MPAGD engine and commenting out chun... Continue reading

  
• 2024-04-30 End of April progress update.
  April 30, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #ZX Spectrum, #update, #MPAGD

  It had to happen. with only 48K to play with I started hitting limits. The game is 90% complete, but to crawl back some memory I've taken to hacking the engine to free up some memory and remove some o... Continue reading

  
• 2024-04-22 Weekend update - Optimization time.
  April 22, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #Progress Update, #ZX Spectrum, #MPAGD, #8-bit, #Retro, #Platformer, #Arcade Adventure, #Shovel Duck

  I've been making a lot of good progress on Shovel Duck II over the past week; completed work on Levels One and Two, and have the pieces ready for Level Three and a plan for game completion... but I ha... Continue reading

  
• 2024-04-15 weekend update.
  April 15, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #MPAGD, #Shovel Duck, #Update, #Development, #Retro, #8- Bit, #ZX Spectrum

  Over the last 7 days a lot of time has been spent looking at Level 2 of the game and sorting out the puzzles and tasks. Also, updating the display to give a slightly better looking screen with icons a... Continue reading

  
• 2024-04-08 Weekend update
  April 08, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #MPAGD, #ZX Spectrum, #8-bit, #Shovel Duck, #Work in progress

  After watching some video footage of people playing the demo of the game, a few tweaks were made to the Demo and shared. However, I felt that maybe people weren't getting enough of a chance to read in... Continue reading

  
• 2024-04-04 Fixed / Tweaked Demo
  April 04, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #MPAGD, #DEMO, #ZX Spectrum, #Tweaks

  Just a follow-up from the last update. I've swapped the previous alpha-demo for a new version with some tweaks. Menu "Attract mode" instructions and hints start sooner. Slight redesign of start screen... Continue reading

  
• 2024-04-03 Updated Main Game Page
  April 03, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #ZX Spectrum, #Game Page Update, #Feedback

  After seeing Sabreman Retro's youTube video of the demo (Sabreman Retro's quick play of the demo) I realised that I might need to give a few more details on how to control Bill as Sabreman appeared to... Continue reading

  
• 2024-04-01 Alpha Demo release available
  April 01, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #MPAGD, #ZX Spectrum, #8-bit, #retro

  After a productive Easter Bank Holiday weekend, I've now got Shovel Duck II to the playable (alpha) demo stage. And, as such, I'm sharing it. There are a few glitches and bugs I've seen in this versio... Continue reading

  
• 2024-03-26 Approaching Alpha Demo release
  March 26, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #zx spectrum, #8-bit, #retro, #work in progress, #platform, #arcade adventure

  The focus of the past week has been to get the game to alpha/ Demo release state. It's almost there and probably, over the bank holiday Easter weekend coming up will get enough polish, tweaks and bugf... Continue reading

  
• 2024-03-18 Weekend update: The adventure begins.
  March 18, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #zx spectrum, #retro, #8-bit, #work in progress, #Shovel Duck

  Another weekend, another couple of days picking up some of the coding. My main focus is now on getting the game to work as a game; so I've been looking at the adventure side of things. At the heart of... Continue reading

  
• 2024-03-11 Weekend update. Starting to look like an actual game.
  March 11, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #zx spectrum, #MPAGD, #Shovel Duck, #Progress, #Development, #Platform, #Adventure

  After little bits of tweaking here and there, some fancying up of the main menu page and adding some wipes... some time has been spent on the actual platform/ adventure side of the game. With a couple... Continue reading

  
• 2024-03-06 mid-week update
  March 06, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #zx spectrum, #update, #menu, #work in progress

  Just a mid-week update. While I'm working out puzzles and "things you're gonna have to do" I've spent a bit of time playing around with getting a little bit more fancy with the menu screen. Of course,... Continue reading

  
• 2024-03-03 Weekend development update
  March 03, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #zx spectrum, #update, #MPAGD, #retro, #8-bit, #platformer, #adventure

  A weekend update. I said I'd be working on worms and fire, and worms and fire is what I've been working on. (Although I do keep tweaking the scroll routine; so long as there are enough empty blocks, t... Continue reading

  
• 2024-02-26 Shovel Duck II weekend update
  February 26, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #MPAGD, #ZX Spectrum, #Proof of concept, #Update, #In development

  So those plans. I've not meddled with the worms yet, but I have improved the scrolling and the digging; which are two of the core parts of the "transporting between levels in the game" section. Of cou... Continue reading

  
• Shovel Duck II - More POC updates 23rd Feb 2024
  February 23, 2024 by io.rrwm

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  #zx spectrum, #mpagd, #8-bit, #retro, #work in progress, #proof of concept, #Shovel Duck II

  Progress is good. After completing development on Money Mouse I have had a few, quieter, playing around with things weeks. Shovel Duck II is still working through the Proof of Concept stage; and the "... Continue reading