Controls: o: LEFT; p: RIGHT; z: FLY.

BASTILUDE

BASIC 10-Liner action game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Bastilude (Basic Hastilude) is an action videogame written in just 10 lines of BASIC programming language, for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer. It is my entry to the 2022 edition of the BASIC 10 Liner Contest, PUR-80 (max 80 characters per logical line, abbreviations allowed) category.

Gameplay

Bastilude is inspired by the Joust arcade game, developed by Williams and first released in 1982. The player controls (with a lot of imagination) a knight riding a green dragon. The objective is to unseat the opponent knights, riding magenta dragons, in a joust, or hastilude. The winner of a joust is the rider whose mount is highest at the moment of contact. A collision of equal height repels the characters apart. The difficulty level progressively increases as the opponents are defeated and they become faster.

Controls

The o and p keys control the dragon’s horizontal direction and velocity, while the z key makes the dragon fly. Only a single command is accepted at a time, so you can either control the horizontal speed and direction or flap the dragon's wings.

Emulation powered by JSSpeccy.
Sinclair and ZX Spectrum are © Amstrad / Sky In-Home Service Ltd.

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