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Published: 2021-11-02 21:54:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 466; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 0
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Back in my high school days, I used to draw a lot more regularly than I do these days. I also used to come up with daft ideas based on films I'd seen, and one such creation is DodoCop - Part Bird, Part Washing Machine, Totally Expendable. This inevitably became the basis of one of my many hare-brained game ideas for the ZX Spectrum.
One thing I've always really hated is trying to come up with loading screens for my game designs... This could be the most elaborate that I ever managed, with an upsized version of the DodoCop sprite on the left, a coloured logo above him, and some blurred background lights in the top right corner. The bullet hole-ridded wooded fence and the pattern-filled pavement are a bit boring... and it's worth noting that a couple of elements on the original made use of the Spectrum's FLASH function, switching the INK and PAPER colours to give the illusion of rudimentary animation.
I can see plenty of things I'd do differently these days, but it's not my worst but of work...
