Missile Blitz

It's been a few months since I've done any serious development so as before, I've elected to make a simple game at first just to ease my brain back into the coding groove.

A long, long time ago a game by the name of Missile Command could be found lurking in your local arcade. It used a giant trackball and fire buttons as it's control mechanism. On reflection, that's quite a tricky way of moving a cursor around quickly and accurately. Nowadays, we're all used to touchscreens and though I'm hardly an advocate for touchscreens, I feel they're the perfect input device for a Missile Command type game.

Mockup of Missile Blitz

Obviously there are a few games of this type floating around the Play Store already but the ones I've tried haven't been great. They're generally too slow and have weird, out-of-place graphics and sound. So I think I can do better in terms of creating a much more fun game to play.

In terms of timescale, I'm not rushing headlong into this as before and risk exhaustion. Nonetheless, I don't imagine spending more than a month on this.. and then I can get back to developing Kingdom.

Missile Blitz is the codename for this project and will most likely just end up staying there and becoming the actual name for it. 

Kingdom

OneSevenOne (that'd be me then) has begun early work on a new game codenamed Kingdom. I'm currently unsure of the ultimate direction this game will take. The initial idea is to produce a game engine based on simple calculations in order to mimic a convincing working 'world' environment.

Other possible elements include building and reshaping the land, researching new tools, machines etc., nurturing the population and so on. I want an original game with new ideas, not a rehash of something that's been done before. This general idea has been floating around my head since the late 90's so is long overdue to be put into production!

Pixel Station is currently unavailable on the Play Store due some crash issues introduced with Android version 5. Once fixed, the game will be published and available for free download once more.