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I've been thinking for some time that one of the many things the SAM Coupé gaming scene lacks is a good shoot 'em up... then again, the SAM lacks good examples of all kinds of games...

Since scrolling is a huge issue, I started thinking about recent games that work within a flip-screen environment... and two particular examples stood out to me: The Binding of Isaac and Dead Estate. This is the first of my explorations of the latter format: isometric presentation, with the player character controlled via keyboard/joystick, and the target controlled by the mouse... If nothing else, it'd be a good advertisement for the mouse interface...

This currently uses my usual optimised 16-colour palette, but I may end up experimenting with some alternatives...

Description
I've been thinking for some time that one of the many things the SAM Coupé gaming scene lacks is a good shoot 'em up... then again, the SAM lacks good examples of all kinds of games...

Since scrolling is a huge issue, I started thinking about recent games that work within a flip-screen environment... and two particular examples stood out to me: The Binding of Isaac and Dead Estate. This is the first of my explorations of the latter format: isometric presentation, with the player character controlled via keyboard/joystick, and the target controlled by the mouse... If nothing else, it'd be a good advertisement for the mouse interface...

This currently uses my usual optimised 16-colour palette, but I may end up experimenting with some alternatives...