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I’ve just uploaded a trailer for Alien Blitz, it is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZG-_ncmw0U I am using the same music as Snorms trailers, I like it, and don’t want to buy another one at the moment I made the video using kdenlive, it’s easy to use, has lots of features, and is completely free. It’s my new favorite movie maker (I was using OpenShot Video Editor before, but there is a bug that adds unwanted frames after effects, and it bothered me too much as it’s a pain to get around it). The video was recorded on PC with a game controller (it’s easier to capture video on PC), using fraps.  ...

The first beta version of Alien Blitz is now publicly available ! Your island has been invaded by aliens during the night, take your shotgun, and kick them out! Alien Blitz is a top-view shooter available on Android with loads of weapons, maps and monsters. You play a soldier resting on his native island, but it is very quickly overrun by monsters from outer space and no outside help is available. You put on your armor, take your shotgun and go to find out what happened at the peril of your life.   The APK for Android can be downloaded for free here: http://goo.gl/sJgU7 Or http://www.microbasic.net/downloads/AlienBlitz.apk (installation from unknown source must be enabled in the security settings of the phone) As it is still an early beta version it is not yet available on Google Play, it will be submitted after initial bug corrections. If...

I am pleased to announce the upcoming availability of Alien Blitz, a port of Snorms for Android. Your island has been invaded by aliens during the night, take your shotgun, and kick them out! Alien Blitz is a top-view shooter available on Android with loads of weapons, maps and monsters. You play a soldier resting on his native island, but it is very quickly overrun by monsters from outer space and no outside help is available. You put on your armor, take your shotgun and go to find out what happened at the peril of your life. The game will be available for free soon (beta version), stay tuned !...

As you may have noticed microbasic.net has changed, new template, new content, new website The content is still being added slowly, most of the pages aren’t ready yet but the blog content has been kept. This will become the main entry point for all my projects: Snorms, Alien Blitz and upcoming ones. I’ve decided to buy a template from arcsin.se, they are quite cheap and quality/support is good, I’m happy with that. Snorms.com will be redirected here when it’s done, some parts of the old snorms.com will be kept for “compatibility” reasons....

Quick update about the top view for Snorms ! Things are going pretty well, the top view makes new things possible that could be nice, here’s a screenshot of work in progress : I’ve used the swapco guy skin for the player, it’s pretty nice, I could use that sort of sprite, with walking animations and different sprites for guns, it could be pretty nice and would suit more my initial idea for the player skin. There are borders around sprites, currently I’ve added borders to all sprites, I will remove them for decorative sprites (lights and such) for others it’s nice I’ve removed the textures for tiles, I will bring them back later I did not change any map yet, so they still have too much height to be playable Light engine should be changed, so that lights don’t light walls (it was ok...