Atomsmash

An evil atom faction has somehow built a tiny empire out of even smaller particles. It is your duty to annihilate them for some reason.

This is a game for the Commodore 64 made using the Shoot ’em up Construction Kit. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ludum Dare I decided to go back to my roots and make a game for my first computer.

The disk image contains both the game executable (“Atomsmash”), and the SEUCK data files (“Atomsmash Data”). You can load it on a C64 emulator or on a real C64, like I did.

Emulator instructions

Download CCS64.
Run the emulator and drag the disk image into the emulator window.
The disk boots and loads. The screen will flash different colours until this is done. This takes a minute or so since it’s emulating the original 1541 floppy drive from 1982.
While the game is loading you can configure an emulated input device. To do this:
Press F10 and navigate to Options > Input.
Configure an emulated joystick on either control port one or two, it doesn’t matter which (or you can configure both and play two-player).
Press escape until you get back to the game/loading screen.

Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 23. The theme of the competition was “Tiny World”.